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A New Design-Focused Mediterranean Restaurant Has Opened in ...
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Omar’s Place is a brand new Mediterranean restaurant, in Pimlico, close to the south side of Victoria station.
Shabaan identified a disused pub — a Grade-II listed, four-storey Victorian corner property on the corner of Hugh and Cambridge Street — and has, an announcement says, been “fantasising about a buzzing Mediterranean restaurant and bar with a creative tapas kitchen, a contemporary cocktail bar and a convivial, local-hangout atmosphere.”
Omar’s Place is an invitation to the most essential flavours and smells of the Mediterranean, tapas, selected wines and cocktails; a journey through countries bathed by such a mythical sea.
Prawns at Omar’s Place Omar’s Place/Facebook The restaurant promises “a touch of the Mediterranean flavours via both lively ambience and avant-garde cuisine specialising in tapas and sharing plates appealing to all your senses.”
The Omar’s Place design is inspired by the Mediterranean sun Nicholas Worley/Omar’s Place After several months of work (including the planning labyrinth that comes with turning a listed pub building into a modern Mediterranean restaurant without cutting into its character), Omar’s Place seats 36 diners on the ground floor and room for a further 50 in a wine-cellar-style private-event venue downstairs, which is scheduled to open in the middle of this year.
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VQ Aldgate Restaurant Review | London Restaurant Reviews ...
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VQ Aldgate (along with Duck and Waffle just a short hop away in Liverpool Street), joined to the Dorsett City Hotel, offers 24-hour food and drink service.
Positioned on the busy strip near Aldgate East tube station and the City, I can tell it’s going to be a godsend for any busy office workers stranded after the last train, or, let’s face it, me on the shlep back to Bethnal Green after a night out after the thought of VQ’s sticky pork ribs crosses my mind at 3am (more on that later).
Hotel restaurants rarely become stand-alone destinations in their own right, and VQ Aldgate’s entrance is back from the main road, down an almost-hidden side alley.
I spied quite a few solo diners – VQ is a personal approach to the hotel restaurant.
The ribs arrived smothered in sticky sweet BBQ sauce and arranged on the plate with lashings of creamy coleslaw underneath (although a bit too much!)
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There's a British slant to an adventurous looking food menu.
Expect dishes such as queenie scallops with gooseberry ketchup, pear, roasted lin seeds and pea shoots alongside chilled beetroot and buttermilk soup with quail egg, cucumber and dill, rib eye steak with bone marrow butter and smoky cajun chips, and sea trout with cucumber and radish pickles.
A dedicated Sunday menu also features, with Old Spot pork belly, rib of beef and lemon-roasted chicken alongside burgers, asparagus risotto, club sandwiches and a hot-smoked salmon hash.
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It’s a subtle but effective setting for executive chef Vicente Fortea who has reimagined his grandmother’s favourite recipes with Pálamos prawns, Andaluçian jamon iberico and bresaola.
Standout dishes include an escalibada which Fortea reworks with anchovy crackers topped with red pepper, smoked sardine and a purée of aubergine and red peppers, and an otherworldly home-made almond speckled sobrasada glazed with honey.