Mabel’s, Covent Garden
Try the Tarte Tatin cocktail of sugar laced Calvados and Sipsmith vodka, or the Rhubarb and Raspberry Martini with Chase Rhubarb Vodka, Chambord and a lick of lemon.
Laduree – French toast & Chantilly cream
Buttery, eggy french toast under a cloud of Chantilly cream from Laduree, Covent Garden...
Dinner at Canvas, Chelsea
Maroon fleshelets of confit pigeon are smartly paired with sweet corn puree and kernals of popped corn, the combination of both is sweet and rich. It is only the start, and I am undone.
Afternoon Tea at One Aldwych
A ruby red ‘Cocktail Charlie’, bubbling away under a cloud of smoking dry ice in a teapot, made up of a mixture of whisky, cherry marnier, chocolate bitters and champagne.
Tapas Revolution, Shoreditch
A tapas bar goes hand in hand with a plate of pulpo, and the octopus here is steamed to a good texture and served with new potatoes and smoked pimentón.
Smokehouse Comes To Chiswick
The spuds start off well - boiled so that they are fluffy first, then mercilessly roasted to form a hard exterior, and later crusted with a thin layer of solid caramel that cracks in the best way.
