From Kettner’s With Love
Kettners is a Soho institution that has evolved through the decades, from pizza parlour to pudding bar, and now finally in its most current guise as a brasserie & champagne bar.
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Kettners is a Soho institution that has evolved through the decades, from pizza parlour to pudding bar, and now finally in its most current guise as a brasserie & champagne bar.
Pineapple scones are hotly swaddled in cotton, waiting to be split and spread with clotted cream and a lime preserve that has as much bite as the air outside, enlivening in their sharpness.
Their ability to control the process from tea bush to tea bag is unique, and as a consumer I appreciate that sort of accountable, short chain, cradle to grave approach.
Our course trainer is the fabulous Alessandro Bonuzzi, whose dry Italian wit and story-telling way of imparting knowledge make the long theoretical sections of the course a little more toothsome than they might otherwise be...
Served in a fat length of brioche bun, roughly the size of a small child’s forearm, is a hot dog with kimchi ketchup, wasabi mayo, sushi ginger, sesame and crispy seaweed.
Savouries are Asian inspired buns and rolls, the best of which are filled with Thai shrimp cake, puffy and run through with lemongrass, cucumber relish and slivers of green mango.