places to be curious about - uk edition

[Diancecht]

if you are headed to the uk anytime soon, you might want to give this restaurant review blog a quick look.

some of you may remember andy lynes from egullet; seems like andy is a follower of the author on threads.

the below is an excerpt from a lengthy post on a gastropub in islington:
 

The menu changes every day and they publish it on the website, so it was much as I’d expected. It’s curious how some menus present you with very difficult choices while some, despite making all the right noises, are devoid of dilemmas. I would say that, however well it read, the Drapers Arms menu was the latter. Nine starters, all of which seemed to be either gutsy and rustic or, for my money, a little too virtuous. It was all a tad binary for me. You had the same number of mains, although four of them – the fun ones – were to be shared between two.

That made the whole thing a little more restrictive than I’d have liked and if you didn’t like offal or bone marrow, both of which made an appearance, I think you might have found things trickier still. Starters generally clustered between eight and fifteen pounds, mains started just shy of twenty but climbed, for the sharing dishes, up to ninety quid.

[MitchW]

Had a reservation for Drapers Arms this afternoon, but cancelled it and decided to stay within walking distance of our airBnB in Marylebone (we have an annoyingly early departure tomorrow morning).

We’ve had some quite good meals at Noble Rot (the Mayfair one), BRAT, St. John Bread and Wine, and Planque.