Giraffe

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Giraffe World Kitchen

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Giraffe - London - Holland Park, 2 For 1 Discount Meals | tastecard

Please Note: The tastecard discount is for 2 for 1, Sunday to Thursday, across starters, mains and desserts.

The tastecard restaurant deal is not valid on breakfast items.

Extra sides and add-ons are not included in the offer, but may be purchased at usual menu price.

Festive Dishes, sharing starters, sharing mains, sharing desserts and sides are excluded from this offer.

This offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other Giraffe promotion.

Giraffe World Foods, The Oracle, Reading - Review - Giraffe Reading

I’ve been back so many times to Giraffe that it has to be one of the good ones I think!

I do genuinely have my menu favourites but when we went to review the place, I decided that it would be a great idea to order pretending we didn’t know what our old favourites were.

I’m quite a fan of the ‘Bowls for the Soul’ section of the menu at Giraffe and I particularly like the Vietnamese Steamboat which is a comforting bowlful of spiced up vegetables with chilli topped with honey and soy glazed seabream.

It comes with skin on fries or a salad like all the burgers on the Giraffe menu.

I’m something of a sucker for a good portion of fries – I really can’t forgo them for a salad, though I’m happy enough to ditch the burger bun in the interest of my hips.

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We were given good bread with some deliciously green and peppery olive oil, direct from the Sicilian family farm of one of the people working in Lorne, as we consulted the menu, which offers five choices for each of three courses, and the wine list, altogether more enticing reading.

The menu doesn’t match up — as is often the case with Modern British — meaning heritage ingredients have been hopefully assembled rather than compellingly fused, connotation and visual appeal mattering more than substance.

It had, however, an intensely fungal flavour,  going well with the bird, a fatty slice of black pudding, and the trophy ingredient, soft-cooked Catalan green onions (festively eaten there barbecued and dipped into romesco sauce, but now a fanciful adornment to on point menus here, despite not having much over a mature spring onion or infant leek, treated the same way).

The short rib beef, pear, cavolo nero, onion vinaigrette (£22) reproduced the mushiness of the terrine, long braising having softened the meat, despite it being still on the bone, to the point where it had critically lost texture and flavour, as if the chef didn’t dare offer anything more challengingly carnivorous, while the salty cavolo nero, diced fruit and pickly but soft onion seemed another rehearsal of the same taste combination.

Yorkshire curd tart, builders’ tea ice cream (£7) could have been served as a plate-sized summary of all that’s dodgy about Modern British cooking: a dry slice of cake not transfigured by its echt origins, plus an ice-cream — clearly meant as a folksy but also knowingly postmodern take on exotic tea-flavoured ices — which  tasted odd without being nice.

Giraffe - London - Victoria, 2 For 1 Discount Meals | tastecard

Please Note: The tastecard discount is for 2 for 1, Sunday to Thursday, across starters, mains and desserts.

The tastecard restaurant deal is not valid on breakfast items.

Extra sides and add-ons are not included in the offer, but may be purchased at usual menu price.

Festive Dishes, sharing starters, sharing mains, sharing desserts and sides are excluded from this offer.

This offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other Giraffe promotion.

Giraffe | Restaurants in South Bank, London

If you don’t love Giraffe, you probably don’t have children.

Giraffe’s crayons, sheet of games and spot-on kid’s menu have given many a couple the simple luxury of a breather on a hectic day out – and the food’s not bad.

The menu shuffles a pack of ideas gleaned from hippy travel guides (world music plays in the background) and swooshes them with contemporary dish styling, such as wooden boards and dinky pots.

Best dishes tend to be classics: a generous torpedo roll of minute steak; the house bacon and cheese burger; chilli beef enchiladas; and breakfast pancakes.

Lunch deals, an early-bird menu and Bar Buddies (50% off selected drinks 5-7pm Mon-Fri) are deal sweeteners, and the Italian house white wine is very acceptable.

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