My wife and I went on a Friday evening – to get there we took the bus!

Ok Bethnal Green is not typically where we go for dinner but the first thing to say is the outside of the building is a terrific and pleasant surprise! The entrance hall to the restaurant is also rather impressive.

The restaurant itself is quite small (I guess 20 tables in total). We were seated close to the kitchen and had a wonderful view of all the preparation work over 4 hours! The atmosphere is quiet and rather serene – no histrionics from the kitchen staff at all!

As commented on by others, the principal chef, Nuno, is very much in evidence and brought a number of the courses to our table himself – very nice touch!

OK -so what did we have?!

Well we had planned to order the 9 course tasting menu but, once there decided to go the whole hog and have 12 courses, despite the warning of ‘it will take about 4 hours!’ We are very glad we did. We also went for their wine choices by course offering – more on that later.

The food itself was quite frankly rather magical and stunningly tasty! Beautifully and carefully presented for a start, some were a work of art to look at and the combinations of flavours thoughout were a real treat – we have not had this variety of challenges to our tast buds and eyes since we went to a 3* michelin restaurant in France. What did we have? There was, amongst others, squid, octopus, olive soup, scallops, pork, beef, garden vegetables (as a course on its own), aubergine and two desserts. Only one course, the pork kneck, was slightly less delicious than all the rest. Nuno told us that the menu will be change durng the year.

Taking the wine they selected for each course was, in retrospect, probably a mistake because firstly we thought the wines chosen for some courses could have been better selected, secondly, with 12 courses, we ended up drinking rather too much (Hic!) and it did add quite a bit to the cost given we would not have drunk as much otherwise(£60 per head I… More