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Scott Hallsworth // live in full effect in Soho 54 Frith St, Soho.

Freakscene Menu RiceBooksDessertsSharing Drinks Cook Book – Junk Food Japan by Scott Hallsworth £18.00 Gin, Mint, Cucumber, Lime Vodka, Passionfruit, Prosecco St Germain, Apple Juice, Mint, Muddled Grapes Pavlova with Passionfruit Curd £6.50 Truffle and Honey Mascapone, Gula Malaka Syrup and Champagne Sabayon.

San Pellegrino sparkling water £3.50 Acqua Panna Still Water £3.50 Karma Cola Sugar Free £3.50 Apple, Jasmine, Lime Iced Tea £3.50 Moretti Draft (Schooner) £4.50 Pasarisa La Rioja Syrah 2014 £9.00/£36.00 La Rioja, Argentina Grape Variety: Syrah This wine has flavours of red fruit combined with spiced notes as well as aromas of liquorice, vanilla and coconut.

Pasarisa La Rioja Syrah £9.00 / £36.00 Argentina Spy Valley Pinot Noir Rose £9.00 / £35.00 (175ml/Bottle) New Zealand Konishi Gold – Daiginjo £36.00 (Bottle) Delicate fruity fragrance with citrus, cherry pear.

Light-bodied, clean, elegant and simple with low acidity and delicate citrus, cucumber pear flavours.

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Conrad's Beer: FreakScene - Farringdon, London

The food world can do it's own thing, somewhere over there, and I'll do own thing over here.

Generally, it's a classic foodie post that will flash up on Instagram - it's picture perfect angle, lighting, shade, and texture not giving any indication as to the quality or taste of the dish; the text below, some meaningless platitude or name-drop of a chef, including the word 'that' - with strong emphasis.

But, on rare occasions, it'll be someone who works in the industry that catches me, in the real world, pinning me down (not literally) and boring me to death about some trend, food, detail, or knife sharpener.

What that chef should have done, is ignore his blinkered obsession with his greatest burger of all time and get his arse over to FreakScene, to see what people really want to eat.

There’s only one thing left to do - plug the heck out of FreakScene and tell you (for the last time) to get there before it closes it doors for good.

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Scott Hallsworth // live in full effect in Soho 54 Frith St, Soho.

Freakscene Menu RiceBooksDessertsSharing Drinks Cook Book – Junk Food Japan by Scott Hallsworth £18.00 Gin, Mint, Cucumber, Lime Vodka, Passionfruit, Prosecco St Germain, Apple Juice, Mint, Muddled Grapes Pavlova with Passionfruit Curd £6.50 Truffle and Honey Mascapone, Gula Malaka Syrup and Champagne Sabayon.

San Pellegrino sparkling water £3.50 Acqua Panna Still Water £3.50 Karma Cola Sugar Free £3.50 Apple, Jasmine, Lime Iced Tea £3.50 Moretti Draft (Schooner) £4.50 Pasarisa La Rioja Syrah 2014 £9.00/£36.00 La Rioja, Argentina Grape Variety: Syrah This wine has flavours of red fruit combined with spiced notes as well as aromas of liquorice, vanilla and coconut.

Pasarisa La Rioja Syrah £9.00 / £36.00 Argentina Spy Valley Pinot Noir Rose £9.00 / £35.00 (175ml/Bottle) New Zealand Konishi Gold – Daiginjo £36.00 (Bottle) Delicate fruity fragrance with citrus, cherry pear.

Light-bodied, clean, elegant and simple with low acidity and delicate citrus, cucumber pear flavours.

Freakscene – Review

However he has swiftly made a comeback with FreakScene, a pop-up café near Farringdon station that continues the Kurobuta narrative but in a more low key and more amusingly put together space that avoids some of the rock’n roll clichés of its predecessor.

The menu is short and sweet and is Hallsworth’s latest take on Nikkei cuisine, that South American/Japanese fusion that is he majors in.The manager amused us with stories of his Jamaican grandmother and seduced us (not hard) into trying a delicious Sake cocktail (£9.50) – sake, pink grapefruit, sugar syrup with its light citrus notes not overwhelming the delicate sake flavour.

The cod was sweet and melting and it was interesting to have the taco with the rice in a nod to Okinawan cuisine which melded Tex-Mex with Japanese food in the mid-1950s.

The smoked salmon was good quality with the hint of truffle flavour, saltiness of the tobiko (fish roe) and hot peppers with the crunch of the pizza (taco) base all colliding to provide an amazing mouth sensation.

The pop-up is a low budget operation with the cooking taking place on two portable burners; but if you crave Hallsworth’s brand of fusion food you really should check out FreakScene while it is still there.

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After a surprise exit from the successful Kurobuta, which started as pop-up and became so popular that it never went away, chef Scott Hallsworth has gone back to his roots with another Asian-inspired pop-up called Freak Scene, this time in Farringdon.

The menu is short and designed for sharing with new dishes being added regularly; between two we got through three quarters of it with ease so if you went in a four (or just really, really hungry) you could defo order everything.

There’s a strong presence of Japanese flavours, from the tuna sashimi pizza with truffle ponzu (that you may have seen at Kurobuta) to the insanely moreish miso aubergine with caramelised walnuts but Hallsworth has also drawn inspiration from across Asia…red curry of duck with lychees and chicken-fried chicken with a sweet and sticky peanut soy sauce were both great dishes.

Freak Scene was opened with a three-month stint in mind but the cooking’s so good, we hope it sticks around for a lot, lot longer…we’ve got our fingers crossed.

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Scott Hallsworth Freakscene

What:​ Scott Hallsworth is back after a messy split with his business partners at Japanese restaurant group Kurobuta​​.

In Clerkenwell, Freakscene contains some DNA from the well-received but latterly troubled Kurobuta and some from Hallsworth’s short-lived south east Asian pop-up Joe’s Oriental Diner.

The affable Aussie and former Nobu head chef says he’s starting from scratch with a handful of former Kurobuta team members and has had to open the Cowcross Street restaurant on a shoestring.

The food:​ Hallsworth is working pretty much unaided in the kitchen with limited kit so the menu is tight, just a dozen dishes or so on any given service.

There are also a handful of dishes that were on the menu at Kurobuta, including Hallsworth’s famous sashimi pizza with truffle ponzu as well as miso grilled aubergine with caramelised walnuts.

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But then this isn’t any old restaurant pop-up; Freakscene is the work of Scott Hallsworth, the super chef behind celebrity favourite Kurobuta and former head chef at Nobu Australia and Park Lane.

Much like at Kurobuta, Hallworth’s Asian-twist cuisine is on the menu again at Freakscene, with dishes designed to share.

Starting with fish dishes, chilli crab wonton bombs (£6.50) were mixed with lemon juice and piled on avocado for a seaside fresh dish, while a miso-grilled hunk of cod fillet (£9.75) was mixed with sushi rice and piled into a crunchy taco.

Chicken-fried chicken (£11.50) is the sort of dish that will win fried chicken a Michelin star some day, as meat was covered in a soy and peanut sauce and freshened with chunks of cool cucumber.

Freakscene is supposedly only around for three months; you have two options, pray to ye gods that it becomes a permanent fixture, or get yourself down to Farringdon as soon as possible.