F.A.T Residency @ Sharps X Dunne Frankowski
That's a mouthful. I'd read Lizzie's post about this place and immediately planned a trip. Bel and I met for lunch, there was a dog roaming around, the smell of toasted cheese wafting about the place, we knew we'd love it. We Both opted for the stilton and kimchi but everything on the menu appealed and is under a fiver, there's also a daily special, a hotdog and a french dip beef roll. Loved it. Will be back, it's so fun and the coffee's pretty great too.
Coal Vaults
This place has only just started opening for lunch, we were outnumber 3:1 by the staff and were the only diners in there for the hour, I didn't expect much but was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the beef stew. It's pretty good quality for £7.50 though a tad small, the accompanying garlic mash was excellent. The lunch menu is very compact, a soup, a terrine, 2 sandwiches and this and slightly overboard on the garnish here guys, but I hope they do well, the service was really nice.
Drakes Tabanco
I went through a phase a while back of eating at Copita a lot, the people behind it have recently opened Drakes Tabanco, a sherry bar with large barrels of the stuff behind the front bar, on Windmill Street, just a few doors down from Dunne Frankowski @ Sharp's as it happens. The food was great, there seemed to be a mix up with our booking so we ended up staying at the bar rather than eating in the small room at the back. We shared the chacuterie board to start for £17.50, it was packed with meat and we had 2 lots of bread. Highlight was the goose rillettes. Best plate of the night goes to the pig cheeks with hazelnuts and mash (£15). Such a lovely combo. We also had the beef short rib with parsnip mash (£14). We sampled a variety of sherries throughout the evening. Nice little place.
Foxlow
I was a little disappointed with Foxlow to be honest. Granted our booking was late, 9:30 (leaving plenty of time for a pre dinner stop off at Zetter) but the menu is pretty short and they had sold out of the thing I wanted to order, the Iberico pluma and also my 2nd choice bacon rib. I was pretty annoyed. I ended up going for the 200g deckle steak (£22), a cut I'd not heard of before, it's a part of the ribeye apparently. It was very nice, but it wasn't what I wanted.
I haven't mauled it pre photo, it came cut like this. The peppercorn sauce was nice. If you're going, have the 10 hour beef shortrib with kimchi (£16), it's incredible, Art ordered this and I have a stupid thing about not ordering the same main course as your fellow diners, I should have made an exception for this, it's really bloody amazing. Special mention to my starter of crispy five pepper squid with lime (£7), it was excellent.
Mash
Hannah, Sarah and I took advantage of the 50% off steak first birthday offer from Mash (Modern American Steakhouse) early in the month. I had the American ribeye with peppercorn sauce and we had an impressive array of sides, fries, mac & cheese, creamed spinach and mushrooms.
We had 2 lots of a good nice baguette and a bottle of red, recommended to us by the waiter. The room is absolutely enormous and it was heaving due to the offer being on for the week. I prefer steak at Goodman and Hawksmoor but who can resist the lure of 50% off your meat? We abandoned an idea to head to nearby Gelupo for pud as we couldn't find room. Keep meaning to go there, perhaps for a hot chocolate....
Street Feast
Rounded the month off nicely with a trip to Street Feast at Hawker House. I'd foolishly eaten a late lunch at MEATmarket so wasn't up to much, a few Street Feast Fizz's and some brilliant pasta from The Cooking Cooks and I was a goner. Their fettuccine with white Bolognese was incredible as was the beetroot conchiglie in cheese sauce. Mmmmm. So so good.
Not the greatest picture I've ever taken, but there were mounds of Parmesan and excellent hand made pasta. Loved it. They're at Netil Market most Saturdays, check them out.
F.A.T Residency @ Sharps X Dunne Frankowski
Sharps
9 Windmill St
Fitzrovia
W1T
9/10
Coal Vaults
187b Wardour St
Soho
6/10
Drakes Tabanco
3 Windmill St
Fitzrovia
W1T
7/10
Foxlow
69 St Johns St
Clerkenwell
EC1M
6.5/10
MASH
77 Brewer St
Soho
W1F
6/10
1 comment:
I had the same experience at Foxlow but we were in at 17.30...
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