Logma

Logma began life as a supper club before settling into a permanent home on Goldsmith’s Row at the end of 2025, run by Ziad Halub and Farsin Rabiee and built around Iranian-Iraqi cooking rather than the Gulf Emirati cuisine its name is sometimes associated with elsewhere. By day it’s coffee and pastries plus home style lunch dishes: slow braised stews, herb heavy soups and rice specialities alongside sandwiches that have quickly become the thing people travel for, drawing a mixed crowd of local regulars and people who found it online first.

The kofte and aubergine pitta sandwich is the dish most reviewers single out, alongside a heaving sourdough pitta topped with baharat spiced chicken and rice. None of it is plated for show; this reads as proper home cooking scaled up rather than restaurant-ified regional food, and the pricing reflects that too, closer to a good local cafe than a destination restaurant.

Wednesday evenings bring back the supper club format that started the whole project, a bookable, bring your own bottle event around communal tables serving a wider fusion menu from the region than the daytime cafe offers. It’s a nice way of keeping the more experimental side of the kitchen alive alongside the now permanent daytime operation, and it tends to sell out its limited seats well ahead of the date.

Worth noting for anyone searching by cuisine type: this is Iranian-Iraqi, not the Emirati or wider Khaleeji cooking the name might suggest to some, and it sits in Hackney near Haggerston, not in central London. Seating is limited and the daytime cafe can fill up fast once word gets round on a given day, so lunchtime queues are becoming a regular feature rather than an occasional one.

A genuinely distinctive, unpretentious opening for anyone interested in Iranian-Iraqi home cooking done without a hint of fine dining polish, and one of the more interesting graduations from supper club to permanent site in recent London memory.