Reemiskitchen, London (2026)

09/03/2026

Cooking, gathering, conversations, and sending people home with full hearts (and sometimes leftovers). This is what love looks like to me. I don't host as much as I used to but deeply grateful for these moments of normalcy when so much of the world is hurting. May we never lose sight of our privilege and may we always hold space for those in need.

❤️

16/02/2026

Fourteen years since I last walked the streets of Jeddah: the city where I was born and the city that held my childhood in its warm, salty air.
My first time going back without my family. Without my father. And I don’t think anything prepares you for returning home when one of the people who was your home is no longer there.
I went to perform Umrah, to visit the Prophet's mosque in Madinah and to show my husband the place where I grew up. But deep down, I was also going to look for pieces of myself. The little girl who sat in the passenger seat next to her dad, driving through familiar streets. The memories we built in places that, in some cases, don’t even exist anymore.
Jeddah is unrecognisable in so many ways. New buildings stretch into the sky. New roads map out a different rhythm. The high speed train now connects it to Makkah and Madinah. There’s a café on every corner, open until the early hours. Women are driving. Thriving. The city feels open, evolving, bold.

Every street carried a memory. Every turn felt like déjà vu. It was beautiful and it was heavy. Bittersweet in the deepest sense of the word.
What made it gentler on my heart was being hosted by my childhood bestie and her husband who wrapped us in warmth and made this emotional return something we will cherish forever.
This reel doesn’t even begin to capture it all. I haven’t even spoken about the food (the best in the world and that’s a whole post on its own).
But for now…
Thank you, Jeddah. For who you were. For who you’re becoming.
I’ll be back to remember, and to make new memories. 🤍

03/02/2026

Happy February with a much needed January review!
I started 2026 with a promise to give January a little more love because let’s be honest, this month gets far too much hate. Some of it deserved, especially when the festive lights come down and the gloom creeps in.
We were lucky enough to end 2025 with friends and begin 2026 the same way, and honestly, I wouldn’t mind turning that into a tradition.
January gifted us snow in Coventry! brief, beautiful, and gone too soon, like all good things. January also saw months of planning for that one event in the heart of Westminster.
Somewhere in between, I was greeted by the sweetest 7-year-old playing me a little birthday tune, yet another reason to show this long month some grace. I woke up another year older, but I don’t feel older. I just feel layered.
Maybe birthdays aren’t about ageing, but about remembering all the versions of ourselves that existed and still do.
Call it a midlife crisis or finally putting that passport to good use, but I took my first solo trip across the channel and ate my body weight in French pastries. Paris, I’m coming back for you.
And because January clearly wasn’t hectic enough, we squeezed in a stopover in Istanbul before one of the most important trips of our lives.
Did we overpack our day? ✔️
Did the city overwhelm me? ✔️
Do all the mosques look a little alike yet somehow each one still breathtaking? ✔️
January, maybe you’re not so bad after all.

Now, to the best part of the year- returning to my birth city which deserve a whole different post or posts!

02/01/2026

London is a city that truly buzzes with restaurants, but lately I’ve been left feeling a little disappointed. So this lunch invite at , perfectly timed with our London visit, was such a pleasant surprise.

We started with falafel, hummus, lamb liver, spicy prawns and tabouleh and honestly, I’m still dreaming about the liver and those spicy prawns, doused in the most herby tomato sauce.
For mains, we shared an assortment of mixed kebabs and lamb ribs. The lamb chops and shish were standouts, and the chicken adana was unbelievably soft and juicy.

truly didn’t disappoint on flavour and the service matched the food ➡️ warm, attentive and thoughtful. Everything tasted freshly prepared and made with a lot of care. If you’re ever in Hackney, this is definitely one to try.

Fresh, comforting Turkish flavours done right.

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26/03/2025

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