Kudu, Kanpai and Bob Bob Ricard

London is a gastronomy, a city that is blessed with unique dishes and unique eating styles. From Michelin level food to street food, we are proud to be able to boast the best restaurants from all over the world. This week I just visited South Africa (in Peckham), Japan (in Soho) and France (Bob Bob Ricard at the Leadenhall Building). This is what I think.

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The deepest peckham, the darkest: a place for young and cool, and historically home for limited quality dining choices. But Kudu is a paradise in the middle that is not washed (the streets). Immediately to move to Marylebone which is much easier to approach, where wheely chauffeurs like to travel and the road is always swept away.

But for now, PECKHAM is the only choice. Unable to make Uber get lost so far, I chose to the east. Station after station, when more dogs are tattooed and dogs that look dangerous to join my train, my hope for food in front of it goes down. My prejudice, however, is completely unfounded when the restaurant provides an extraordinary dining experience. This is a skilled kitchen that offers a balanced menu with measurable exotic elements. Worth from Bib Gourmand, which has been held since 2019.

Kick off with bread must be accompanied by butter that melts from bacon or shrimp. Cruller shrimp smoke is the perfect bribe, lifted by Miso and Dill. Agnolotti, clearly homemade, silk and sticky temporarily roast shells, perched on the pudding of chawanmushi Malay, pickled fungus inoki and tuille corals, are the thieves of the show.

We finished their experience with beautiful pork tomahawk. Applied in Chilli Chimichurri, it feels noble. I could not comment on his appearance because the lights had been extinguished in the garden, which only added to the authenticity, reminding me of slaughtering the power of Cape Town ‘Load Shedding’. The wine list is a strong representation (if short) from South Africa and Glenelly Stellenbosch Syrah (£ 49) hit the place well. I can’t wait until it is opened in Marylebone.

Classic Kanpai

This week my Evolv collection opened a Japanese/Pan Asian restaurant in 100 Warddur Street with Chef Scott Hallsworth, which holds the position of the chef’s head when Nobu London is number 12 in the 50 best list of the world. It has a fantastic menu, with extraordinary tastes prepared innovatively and disrespectfully, served in a relaxed and sexy atmosphere (as expected at Sir Terence Conran). Ahead of the launch, I want to try Kanpai who inspired Tokyo a few doors away …

I’ve heard three things about this place: expensive (right); The decoration is strange (true); and extraordinary steak (wrong). My friend and I left a warm restaurant that was uncomfortable £ 600 out of my pocket after the experience of tasting ten courses. Dinner reaches a climax with a sweaty waiter to cut Wagyu Grade A5 that looks beautiful into a cube with a pair of blunt scissors in a dark basement and without air. I went in a dark mood. Puligny Montachet Alain Chavy 2017 Bottle (£ 180), although served ten degrees too warm, is the only light that shines.

Bob Bob Ricard City

I have long been admired by Bob Bob Ricard Restaurant because of the ambition that is not sorry, Decadence and Design, the last one will nod to the Legendary Le Train Bleu restaurant at Gare de Lyon Station in Paris. The door to the ‘Press for Champagne’ door is the legendary and addition of the caviar tasting menu feels entirely appropriate.

Feelings on the way begin when you enter the restaurant through the Methuselah tunnel that displays the best of Burgundy, Bordeaux and Champagne. A person’s buttocks start tightening when you anticipate the adventure that will be mashed by Nico, Debonaire, and Sommelier who are charming, will start with you. This won’t be cheap but you will remember it forever. The food is simpler: in fact, truffles and champagne ‘Humble Pie’ (£ 24) are generous and delicious offers.

Before sharing PAI and Porterhouse, we started with a bottle of Pommery Apanage Blanc de Blanc (£ 155) and tasted the cavities mentioned above from Ocietra, Kaluga and Beluga, served on a fresh blinist from the oven.

I recommend a bottle of Joseph Drouhin Volnay 2018 (£ 149) The most fun is served with pelmeni lobster, shells and shrimp (dumplings that are pleasant for you and me) and the perfect predecessor for some extraordinary Irish beef.

Toast of the city

Finally, when the toast the City Awards nomination period ends, it will be rude not to reflect on the culinary wealth that we share in the city. I recommend this reflection to be made on the Evolv Collection roof terrace; Madison, who faced the Cathedral of St. Paul, Coq d’Argent overshadowed the exchange of kingdoms or roof bars in anglers. So take a glass of mirabeau and get your voice now!