Review Palomar - London

The reviews are spot on, go hunt this wonderful restaurant out, it's worth the visit and very reasonably priced

I ate far too many dishes as they tasted so good, sit at the bar table and be prepared to wait for a seat, but please wait, it's so worth it


A small free taster - delicious and great dip

Started with home baked bread (chola) with tomato coulis and tahini, really tasty mix, very cleverly done, nice and fresh and works well. Followed with some mackerel esbeche,really tasty some great flavour profiles mixed in to cut through the fatty mackerel. Raw oysters, simple but still fresh and tasty. The daily six were excellent with a stand out two being the Josper smoked aubergine and beetroot with goats cheese, sublime!!!

This was all topped off by the superior Jerusalem polenta, with asparagus mushrooms and truffle, this was so good, really rich and packed with flavour, it was worth the trip alone. YOU HAVE TO TRY IT !!! so good i forgot to take a picture, until i was half way through it.

Mains were sublime again packed with flavour and some great ideas, oxtail casserole really tasty and so unusually light, lots of textures and perfectly cooked. Deconstructed kebab again very cleverly pulled off, again so good i forgot a picture completely this time. Steak with lutka and fried egg, lots of flavour, very tender, worked very well. To top it all off the sweetbread dish was superb, my favourite of the night and something i will return to try again!!

Finished off with a superb chocolate dessert don't ask me what it was but god it tasted great, lots of amazing flavours and textures. By this time I had consumed far too much food, then to finish the equivalent of the wafer thin mint, we were given a taster of the house ice cream, very cleverly done and this did just about finish me off.

Night was made with some free alcohol shots given through night the staff entertainment is very funny and clever to get people involved, also a big win are the chefs cooking right in front of you and talking all through the meal, bad that you have to sit there and watch them plating all this divine food, hence eating far too much

Overall well done and I hope you continue to grow but as you do please please keep it real

Review Barbecoa - London

Second visit here and had I been paying I would have been very annoyed

Arrived nice and early for drinks in the bat, Virgin Mary very spicy but good, all wine very good. We sat about 30 minutes late as one of the party was late.

Pork scratchings and smoked nuts tried in bar, both ok although scratching needed salt

Orders taken all ok so far, pre meal bites ie breads delivered after starters not my idea of a pre lunch bite

Sweetbread starter very poor sauce too sweet and sweetbreads were tough
Pâté very good
Crab salad seen better in seaside restaurant this just looked like a plate of mess
Chicken wings and ribs all ok

Chateaubriand tender but absolute no taste, same for fillets, T-bone steak no better

All steaks were either over or under cooked, if they truly are aged then someone is doing it wrong because there was nothing different with these steaks than a standard supermarket one

Sides very poor- mac cheese no cheese and no sauce, mushrooms awful,Brussels sprouts even worse

Come on Jamie If you are selling yourself on the best steaks in London you have to do better than this- aged I am not so sure and if they are then they don't taste like it

You can get better for a lot cheaper