by The Olive Branch | Aug 5, 2020 | Success Stories
Tripadvisor Travellers Choice Award 2020 We are really pleased to announce the olive branch has won the Traveller’s Choice Award 2020 as one of the top 10% worldwide!!! This is incredible news in such a hugely difficult time! What an honour! May I take this...
by The Olive Branch | Oct 15, 2018 | Success Stories
Woohoo! We have exciting news! The limit is not in the sky, the limit is in the mind! A few years ago this was beyond our imagination, today with hard work, commitment and incredible support from our friends, staff and customers, we are very pleased to announce that...
by The Olive Branch | Dec 27, 2017 | The Olive Branch News
The Olive Branch 1st Birthday Can you believe it? The Olive Branch is turning 1. Personally we can’t believe a year has passed, in some ways it feels like yesterday we opened this little cafe for our launch night expected very few people to turn up only to be...
by The Olive Branch | Dec 2, 2017 | Uncategorised
Book now! Christmas menu from the olive branch available with all of the following: Main: cold or hot vegetarian or vegan meal Drink: Fresh juices and hot drinks (turkish coffee or speciality teas) Dessert: Delicious mouth watering baklava All for £10 per person....
by The Olive Branch | Oct 2, 2017 | Uncategorised
Here is our finalised event schedule! We had a great first day today. Thanks to everybody who made it. More exciting things are happening throughout the week. Come along for lunch, learn to cook a meal, write your name in Arabic, and more!
by The Olive Branch | Sep 4, 2017 | Learn to Cook
As part of our Welcome Week “Once upon a time in Syria” event at the Lakeside Theatre cafe at the University of Essex we are delighted to announce our cooking workshop, or more precisely wrapping workshop! We will show you many ways of filling a wrap with...
by The Olive Branch | Aug 24, 2017 | Special Events
The Olive Branch Café is delighted to bring to Lakeside Theatre a Syrian Feast of the East! During the University of Essex Welcome Week (2nd till 6th of October 2017) come and join us at the Lakeside Theatre Cafe. There will be food, music, dance, cooking, laughs and...
by The Olive Branch | May 28, 2017 | The Olive Branch News
We have recently launched a selection of hot vegetarian snacks. They are selling out fast, so please call in early! A variety of delicious savoury pastries: mini pizza, zaatar pastry (zaatar is a powdered mix of spices and flavours including thyme, rosemary, sumac,...
by The Olive Branch | May 28, 2017 | Syrian Cuisine
Once upon an ancient time, centuries-old Syrian Cuisine came about as grandmothers passed their passion for cooking to their daughters and so on! To date, most Syrians cook their meals without any published recipes but old traditions, passion and feel for the food....
by The Olive Branch | May 28, 2017 | Learn to Cook
In our Learn to Cook sessions we share how to recreate some of our most popular Syrian dishes for yourself. Watch our event page for upcoming cooking workshops!
