Rez Rahman of Roti Mami is cooking at Oranj, 15 Dray Walk, E1 6QR, until Sunday 22 November, according to the Truman Brewery’s event listing, which says she “comes home from Berlin to cook with us on Brick Lane”. The residency opened on Wednesday 11 November and is already under way, a run of 12 days in all.
The listing sets the dates against two occasions: Rahman’s return to the street, and “what serendipitously happens to be four years for us in the area”, the four years being Oranj’s time there.
The page is headed “Oranj: Rez Rahman” and sits in the brewery’s To Do section, with the dates given as “OPENING Wednesday 11 – Sunday 22 November”. The window takes in two weekends, and the last day is the Sunday.
A Brick Lane cook back from Berlin
Rahman is quoted on the brewery’s page on her family’s ties to the street. “Three generations of my family have lived and built their lives here in Brick Lane. It’s literally my backyard,” she said. The listing introduces the quote with the line “Rez explained to us..” and asks readers to “celebrate her homecoming”.
Beyond the move from Berlin and the Roti Mami name, the page carries no further biography. No other venues, collaborators or dates appear on it.
The restaurant’s address on the listing is 15 Dray Walk, E1 6QR, while the Truman Brewery gives its own as 91 Brick Lane, E1 6QL. The surrounding streets of curry houses, bagel shops, vintage rails and street art are set out in Made in Shoreditch’s guide to Brick Lane in 2026.
Seafood, and a rasmalai ice cream
The menu “leans into seafood, which is central to Bengali and Bangladeshi cooking”, the listing says. That is the only account of the savoury courses published on the page, and no individual dishes are named.
Dessert is set out in Rahman’s own words: “For dessert, I make my own version of the rasmalai I grew up on: a rasmalai ice cream with strawberry compote and a light, delicate Bengali biscuit.”
No prices appear on the brewery’s page, and no service times are listed. A “Make a Reservation” option sits beside the address, so bookings are invited, but no telephone number or booking link is given for the residency. The footer carries the brewery’s general number, +44 (0)207 770 6001, and its info@trumanbrewery.com address. The page does not say whether the kitchen runs every day of the 12, nor how the menu is served.
Four years in the area, and the rest of Dray Walk
Oranj has handed its kitchen to visiting cooks before. Made in Shoreditch covered a January 2024 residency at the restaurant by Paxti Andres, cooking a blend of Latin American and European flavours. The Rahman run is a later residency at the same address.
The brewery describes itself as “once home to London’s largest brewery” and now “East London’s primary destination for the public and creative businesses alike”. Its listings cover shopping, markets, eating, drinking and nightlife across the site, which trades under Zeloof LLP, owner of the Truman trade mark.
Dray Walk carries short-run retail alongside the restaurants. Made in Shoreditch has reported a Cheaney sample sale at Dray Walk Gallery on the same lane.
The residency closes on Sunday 22 November. The brewery’s page says nothing about what follows it at Oranj.