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StreetXO in London (review by ElizabethOnFood)
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Lunch started in StreetXO's glam cocktail bar which offers a "Liquid Cuisine" cocktail list (�11-�14) featuring extraordinary combinations, such as a liquid Tom Kha Kai cocktail with galanga, coriander, kaffir lime, chilli, flying fish roe, straw mushroom and "infinite coconut" or the "XO Blood" with watermelon, bitter almond, citrus and galange, the latter to be drunk from a�heart replica (the organ, not the symbol!)
Next up was a trilateral Canton, Galicia and Mexico dish (to share): Robata-grilled Galician octopus and squid ink crackers, served with a hallucinogenic�tomatillo and green apple mole (which takes two days to make), and �"fake Chinese wok noodles", I'm guessing a mixture of enoki mushrooms and stir-fried bean sprouts (?)
Winner of the day was robata-grilled pigeon (breast and leg, to share) brilliantly paired with a blood-red sweet achiote sauce and StreetXO's take on the traditional Spanish fried bread crumbs' dish "migas manchegas" aka "migas de pastor" and some lily bulb scales.
Beautifully tender and flavoursome robata-grilled squid, topped with herb pesto, and served with sweet yellow papaya (underneath the squid), chopped peanuts, a sharp green papaya salad (on top), deep-fried basil leaves, some basil and lime cr�me, and finally a�sour and spicy hibiscus dressing made with soy sauce, fish sauce, and dried hibiscus.
Finally we were served four (two each)�"La Pedroche" croquettes, named after David Mu�oz�girlfriend and actress�Christina Pedroche, with a decadently rich filling of sheep's milk and Lapsang Souchong tea, and garnished with�toro tuna and XO sauce.
StreetXO, the new craziest restaurant in London by David Munoz ...
Food Review: StreetXO | Londonist
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It's something we ask ourselves roughly every 8 seconds at StreetXO London, the Mayfair restaurant from chef David Muñoz.
Several dishes force you to ditch the cutlery or don't come with any: the Steamed Club Sandwich — perfectly soft bao, folded across suckling pig, ricotta and an upside-down fried quails' egg, leaking its yolk into the beautiful, messy handful.
The menu doesn't sacrifice pleasure for shock factor: everything's rich, decadent and packs enormous, surprising punches of flavour.
Our stand-outs are that steamed club sandwich, and the Korean lasagne — aged beef with shitake, Gochujang tomato sauce and white wine emulsion: hot, sour, rich and earthy in every mouthful.
The Liquid Madrizzzzzz's DiverXO is a mix of violet, lime, ginger and jasmine in a wineglass with a bowl the size of a human head, taking two hands to lift it.
Restaurant review: StreetXO - Business Traveller – The leading ...
Background StreetXO is the first London outpost from three Michelin-starred Spanish chef David Munoz, who runs an eponymous sister venue and conceptual fine-dining restaurant DiverXO in Madrid.
StreetXO opened in Mayfair in November to offer a sit-down take on the original venue’s more informal concept, serving eccentric Spanish-Asian fusion sharing plates.
On Old Burlington Street off Mayfair’s Savile Row.
The venue On street level, the entry hall is a sultry space decked out in dark, glossy tiles, warmly lit by caged light bulbs that hang from welded steel chains.
After leaving my coat with the porter, I was led downstairs past a series of large, backlit x-rays of fish and human skeletons and into the main restaurant.
Street Xo restaurant, Old Burlington Street review | Culture Whisper
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Street Xo London is inspired by street food, and, like David Muñoz's Madrid venues, it channels a unique aesthetic of 'punk-rock meets fine-dining'.
And Street Xo London certainly lives up to its own hype.
Like the original Street XO in Madrid, the menu at Street XO London takes inspiration from European, Asian and South American cuisines.
Just like the dishes at Street XO, Muñoz and his team take a bold gastronomic approach to the cocktail list, ensuring that all drinks are playful and provide the right balance of sweet, salt, sour and bitter flavours to complement dishes.
There is a regularly changing menu at the Street Xo, but there is also a unique, experimental trolley wheeled through.
Street XO restaurant review - London, UK | Wallpaper*
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For David Muñoz, the opening of his first London restaurant is a full circle moment.
StreetXO, the first of Muñoz’s ‘diffusion’ line, has been successful enough that he now returns to London with his first outpost.
The Barcelona-based designer Lazaro Rosa Violan Muñoz has made the most of Muñoz’s subterranean lair in Mayfair’s Old Burlington Street, compensating for the lack of natural light with mood-lit dark timber floors, clusters of bubble chandeliers, graffiti, exposed piping, and a neon stripped outline of a fish that wouldn’t look out of place in a Ginza watering hole.
In the kitchen, Muñoz shows off the mash up cuisine that’s made him almost a standard bearer for Spain’s new generation of chefs – Mediterranean bones fleshed out with Asian and South American influences.
To whit: a cocktail of jasmine and coconut vinegar, or an aged rum swirling with tea and ginger at the bar that takes its visual cues from a street vendor’s cart.