Corner Room

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Restaurant review: The Corner Room in Bethnal Green is a hot spot for hipsters with unbelievably perfect food and engaging staff.

Although I love Viajante, chef Nuno Mendes’s other outpost in the same hotel, it isn’t for everyone: its Michelin stars and intricate, worshipful environment don’t encourage any kind of giddiness.

Because, by Viajante standards, The Corner Room offers the chance to get on board Nuno’s roller-coaster at a comparative snip.

Roam the corridors, pass the 20th-century classic furniture and distressed shop cabinets (these are fake; I know, I’ve got one), climb the imposing staircase, admire the wonderful carpeted moose head by artist Debbie Lawson and here’s where it’s at.

It’s served fashionably pink on a bed of ‘Portuguese bread pudding’,  a mound of buttery, almost truffley breadcrumbs, like a luxury version of the Spanish migas.

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The Lowdown: It’s a bit of a mission to find Corner Room, tucked away inside the Town Hall of Bethnal Green.

Still, it’s definitely worth investigating, since tucked into a corner room (ah ha…) is an intimate dining area doing exciting and damn tasty things with seasonal ingredients.

Atmosphere: There’s a sense of casual competence about the whole place, from the way the dishes are plated to the elegant waitresses gliding around – a feeling that Corner Room would never be so crass as to boast, but they know they’re darn good (and deservedly so).

Culinary Concept: Each main dish features at least one prime ingredient sourced from within the UK, with a focus on matching simple flavours with innovative cooking techniques.

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The other night I was reminded of Burger Joint as I passed the reception area, traipsed the corridors, and climbed the windy staircases up to the corner room of the Town Hall Hotel looking for Corner Room.

My friend food writer Ellie Grace and I decided to dine there last Thursday evening.

For the main course I had the pork and Portuguese bread pudding, Ellie had confit salmon with beetroot and horseradish.

We finished our meal with the dark chocolate and peanut butter ice cream, and blueberries with goats cheese caramel, brioche and shiso – a type of herby mint common in Japan.

In this respect, Corner Room very much lives up to its undramatic name.

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I got word via twitter that Nuno Mendes has a new East End venture, The Corner Room, which is not too dissimilar to Viajante.

As Viajante has been on my radar for quite some time, although I have yet to try it out, Corner Room seemed like the perfect introduction.

No such luck – the dining room was full and there was a small group gathered outside hoping to get on the waiting list for tables.

With a Cornish adventure planned for two days time, I decided to shun most of the fish heavy menu and opted instead for a rather safe lamb rump and belly with baby vegetables, as did my friend but for entirely different reasons.

For dessert, my friend had the blueberries with goats cheese caramel, brioche and shiso while I was enticed by the vanilla parsnip with frozen milk, tapioca and black olives.

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The Town Hall Hotel and Apartments is located in London's artsy East End.

This hotel first opened as a town hall in 1910 and many of the rooms, studios, and apartments have original period details.

All rooms have free Wi-Fi and iPod docks.

Hotel amenities include a nice indoor pool, a fitness room, and a stylish restaurant.

While some guests might feel that the location is isolated from London's top attractions, the Town Hall Hotel offers great value for money in a hip neighborhood.

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E had the squid with Jersey Royals and fennel (£6), which arrived on a beautiful slick of emerald olive oil and black squid ink, mingling to look like a highly specialist marble.

The lamb jus was a profound flavour, E thought the macadamias played off the beans nicely from a textural point of view, there were some extraordinary creamed leeks tucked underneath that took it all to new heights of unputdownable, but, again, it came back to the lamb and its beautiful, evocatively rural, meaty flavour.

I had the blueberries with goat's cheese caramel, brioche and shiso granita (£5), which was fine.

The brioche was a bit crunchy and salty and unforgiving, and the goat's cheese caramel was actually goat's cheese next to caramel, but the granita was great.

If your budget doesn't stretch to Nathan Outlaw's two-Michelin-star restaurant, fear not.

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Following Nuno Mendes' departure from the Town Hall Hotel in February 2014,  Corner Room appointed John Christie as head chef in September 2014.

Christie has previously worked at restaurants such as Hibiscus and El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Spain.The Food and Drink Editors In its role as the less formal of the two restaurants in the restrained, stylish Town Hall Hotel (the other is Viajante), the Corner Room strikes a happy medium between impressive and approachable.

The food, overseen by the perfectionist, thoughtfully experimental Nuno Mendes, is consistently excellent, and the short, alluring wine list and young, engaged staff in their black uniforms are also some way above average.

The short menu (about five dishes per course) is a terse list of ingredients that barely hints at the complexities on the plate, which invariably holds more flavours than billed and a primer’s worth of technique.

The bread pudding in ‘Ibérico pork, bread pudding, wild garlic’ was a rich, musky mush, the garlic leaves brittle and aged in flavour.