Newcomers to London, meanwhile, include DakaDaka and Ab-Ra as well as Sova, a ‘wine and vinyl’ restaurant in Notting Hill heavily indebted to Georgian cuisine and its rich mix of colors, flavors, ingredients, rituals, and cultural influences.
“Georgian food has always been very popular across the former Soviet countries, but because Georgia was closed off for so many years it was barely known in the West,” says DakaDaka’s Georgian co-founder Giorgi Mindiashvili…

