Willesden Lane, NW6
Cusina Ko means my kitchen.
Five of us, two families, and the food we have always cooked at home. The short version is on the front page. This is the long one.
Cooked at home first
There are five of us across two families. One of us is from Batangas, two are from Isabela, and the rest of us were born in London.
Long before there was a restaurant there was the kitchen at home. One of us does the cooking, from recipes that came down the family the way they do, by standing next to whoever was cooking. Friends ate at ours for years and kept saying the same thing: this is the best Filipino food we have had. Eventually we believed them.
Sinigang is the family favourite. It is what we cook for ourselves, and it is on the menu the way we make it at home.
Why Kilburn
We live nearby, and so do a lot of Filipino families. We wanted somewhere close to home where you could eat food like home, without a long trip to find it.
How we cook
Everything comes out to be shared. Dishes go in the middle of the table and you reach across each other, which is how we have always eaten.
We cook with pork. Dishes marked HALAL on the menu are made without pork or alcohol, in the stock and the sauce as well as on the plate, with meat from a halal supplier.
Our kitchen handles fish, shellfish, soy, gluten, peanuts, egg and milk. Tell us about allergies before you order and we will tell you honestly what we can cook for you, and what we cannot.
Food like home.
We are not open yet, and we are not taking bookings. Leave your email and we will tell you the day we are.