Eat Out London!Antidote Wine Bar and Restaurant
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Antidote Wine Bar - 12A Newburgh St, London W1F 7RR - 0207 287 ...
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Born in Normandy, Guillaume moved to London in 1995.
He opened the acclaimed “La Trouvaille” in 2001, one of the first restaurant to offer an organic and biodynamic wine list.
Following the success of La Trouvaille, Guillaume opened Antidote in 2011.
Having had years of experience in the industry and built great relationship with natural wine growers around Europe, he decided Antidote would focus on showcasing the best natural wine growers and offer the perfect wine experience to its customers in a relaxed atmosphere.
When it’s not about food and wine then it’s about music.
Chiswick's Hedone reopens minus menus and a few seats ...
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Significant changes have been introduced at Mikael Jonsson’s outer Chiswick open-kitchen venture Hedone.
I want my chefs to come back to work every week rested and full of energy.
Saturday lunch will be served noon-2.30 pm with a regular lunch menu of £45, a tasting menu from £85 and a Carte Blanche at £125.
Both lunch and dinner menus offer wine pairings.
Jonsson now also oversees Antidote wine bar and restaurant just off Soho’s Carnaby Street.
Fay Maschler reviews Antidote Wine Bar and Restaurant | London ...
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ES Food Newsletter It was more or less at the moment when a wily blogger made the link between the pear and Cévennes onion gratin at Antidote and the Michelin-starred restaurant Hedone that the latter’s chef-patron Mikael Jonsson came clean: quietly, he has been hired as consultant to Antidote.
Most serious chefs would subscribe to this stance but Jonsson has made a life’s work of it and that is apparent in the four-course Menu du Marché served at dinner last week in the first-floor restaurant at Antidote.
Long waits between courses — accentuated by all dishes needing to be run up two flights of stairs — give us time to meditate on the temperature and time that the duck egg must have been coddled before being placed in a pool of pea purée, alongside whole peas and sautéed morels with a stripe of red pepper mousse topping the shining dome of yolk.
Such white wine, which has spent time macerating on the grape skins, can taste disconcertingly of wee.
We have done better, I think to myself, with our choice of Gut Oggau 2011 Neusiedlersee “Josephine”, an Austrian red with a brisk clarity and sense of purpose that trots effectively through slip soles, guinea fowl and even chocolate moelleux.
Antidote Wine Bar and Restaurant | Restaurants in Soho, London
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This wine bar has been open for years, but early in 2014 it upped its game considerably by hiring a well-regarded chef-consultant, Mikael Jonsson, of Hedone restaurant in Chiswick.
Jonsson’s not manning the tiny kitchen, but he does supply the bread from his restaurant, and offers pointers on the menu.
A blackboard menu lists appealing, but pricey nibbles: good charcuterie and cheeses, scallop ceviche and pork shoulder were among the options.
Hedone restaurant this is not.
But if you change your culinary expectations and come along for a casual and lively wine bar experience, you’ll be very satisfied.
Kua 'Aina | Restaurants in Soho, London
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Granted, London is a mere handful of burger joints away from total saturation.
But this Soho spot has something others don't: an endorsement from Barack Obama, who frequents Kua 'Aina's flagship Hawaii location when he's back in the state.
Menu options include a range of sandwiches and salads, the usual burger options and Obama's favourite: the Avocado Burger.
American pancakes and traditional desserts complete the menu, complemented by craft brews imported from Kona Brewing Co. in Hawaii, plus house wines and cocktails.