AA Gill, Table Talk: Sunday Times
The Bluebird Dining Rooms, King’s Road
Overseen by Tom Conran & Mark Broadbent…
“The menu is one of the best I’ve seen this year, a Winter wish list of seriously tweedy food… a well-planned collection of dishes that drops names where appropriate and adds a modern flourish when it feels like it.”
“The starters included dandelion salad, wet walnuts, lambourne apples and Shropshire blue; warm potato drop scones, Cornish crab, landcress and crustacea oil; and flaked, soused mackerel, Cheltenham beetroot, orange and bitter leaves. Main courses encompassed slow-roast crackled Middle White pork, roast potatoes and warm quince; pot-roast Saltmarsh lamb, hotpot potatoes, spinach and pickled red cabbage; and glazed young cauliflower, Montgomery cheese and soft egg. That almost reads like a Betjemen poem.”
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