Recipe for success and second chances

Presenting Home Kitchen, the new restaurant in London. — ©2024 The New York Times Company

IT’s been three weeks since the restaurant, Home Kitchen, opened its doors and Mimi Mohamed is pretty sure she knows the lemon tart recipe by heart.

But just in case, a small notebook where she has carefully written out the ingredients is propped up at the back of the steel counter: 18 lemons; 420g of butter; 900g of sugar; 24 eggs.