Itamar Srulovich

The Climb

Middle Eastern cooking sits at the centre of Itamar Srulovich’s work, and Honey & Co is the vehicle that gives it shape. As chef-owner of Honey & Co and author of *Honey & Co: Food from the Middle East*, he has turned a home-rooted food language into a restaurant and a book, keeping the emphasis on dishes that read as intimate, generous and clearly composed.

Today

At Honey & Co, the cooking is built to carry memory, hospitality and routine in the same plate. Srulovich’s approach is plain in intent: food that feels lived-in, with the domestic rhythms of home cooking carried into a restaurant setting. The book, *Honey & Co: Food from the Middle East*, extends that same point of view onto the page, keeping the flavours and atmosphere of the kitchen available beyond service.

Signature

Middle Eastern food is the frame for Itamar Srulovich’s cooking, and that frame keeps the work direct. The dishes lean toward what is familiar, shared and often cooked at home, but the execution is distinct enough to make the style recognisable as his. That balance gives the food its particular register: rooted, expressive and attentive to hospitality without overstatement.

In Their Words “Which is about what we eat at home, what we cook at home.” “It's a bad idea to date a chef. Always a bad idea.”

Recognition

Recognition for Srulovich is tied to the two roles that define his output: chef-owner of Honey & Co and author of *Honey & Co: Food from the Middle East*. Those are the markers that place him in the trade conversation, as the person directing the restaurant’s food and preserving its perspective in print.