Ida At My Table
a story of food, hope and how a dream became a restaurant on london’s unlikeliest road
$21.73
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
24 November 2025
Summary
Ida At My Table: A Restaurant Dream
In 2007, Simonetta and her husband made the quixotic decision to open a restaurant.
Without any relevant experience, IT engineer Avi and novelist Simonetta put aside their careers to throw themselves (and their three young children) into their dream.
This is the story of Ida, a tiny resilient restaurant situated on an unlovely arterial road between Kilburn and Kensal Rise, a barren thoroughfare with few shops and zero passing trade…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781835011119 |
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| ISBN-10: | 183501111X |
| Author: | Simonetta Wenkert |
| Publisher: | Bedford Square Publishers |
| Imprint: | Bedford Square Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 24 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 232g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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Critics Review
‘Captivating… It’s about love and family and stoicism… and the strange alchemy of a neighbourhood restaurant’
– Rachel Cooke, Observer‘A love letter to a mother-in-law and the food heritage of a closely bonded Italian family… Reading Ida At My Table replicates the feeling of eating a gorgeous, rich bowl of ragu. You will finish it feeling full, happy and content’
* Mail on Sunday *About The Author
Simonetta Wenkert
Simonetta Wenkert was born in London in 1965 of an Italian mother and Austrian-Jewish father. She is a novelist and translator, and a mother of three grown up children. Together with her husband, she runs an Italian restaurant in Queens Park called Ida.
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