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Almeida

Address:	30 Almeida Street N1 1AD
Tel	020 7354 4777
Email:	almeida-reservations@danddlondon.com
Website:	Visit Almeida website
Price: £40.00	Wine: £14.50	Champagne: £39.75
Opening Hours:	Mon-Sun 12N-2.30pm 5.30-11pm (Sun 1-9pm)

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Square Meal review of Almeida:

Things are on the up at this Islington favourite. A gentle refurb, unveiled in early 2008, features a chic, cool-blue colour scheme while a redesigned bar area lends a sense of relaxed informality. Better still, staff have upped their game, & new head chef Alan Jones (ex-Lucknam Park) brings a refined touch to the kitchen with his modern take on French bourgeois classics. Mussel & saffron soup needed just a touch of black pepper to release the full, fresh flavours of the shellfish, though the saffron-infused velouté was perfect in texture & taste. To follow, pot-au-feu of Landes chicken was an updated version of grand-mere’s cooking, gentle poaching bringing out the vivid flavour of the high-calibre bird, enhanced by delicious celery, leeks & carrot cooked together ‘en pot’. Desserts are a strength: the lacquered sugar topping on a creme brulee concealing a terrific vanilla-infused creme. Excellent coffee & petits fours round things off nicely &, as ever, the pre- & post-theatre menus at £14.50/17.50 for two/three courses are great value.