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But if there is a short wait, we will keep you entertained in our cocktail lounge at Soho or bar at City until your table is ready.
Both have stunning menus and carry the same temper style.
<br /> <a Now for Temper Soho on opentable.co.uk</a><a Now for Temper City on opentable.co.uk</a><br /> Please note: on Saturday lunches at City we offer a set lunch menu only, with the option of going bottomless and remember our bottomless quiz is on the first Saturday of every month!
As well as big tables perfect for groups, City also have a private Mezzanine available for exclusive hire for up to 60 people – please contact us for details.
For groups larger than 7, or for private hire, please email us at Soho or for City.
Temper, Soho, London: restaurant review
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From ground level it looks like just another wine bar, but head underground and it’s a dark den of mezcal, smoke, meat and, er, Pickled Onion Monster Munch.
It’s cavernous, with booths and tables filling every corner, but if you want a piece of the real action, grab a counter seat around the open kitchen where tacos are hand-pressed, flatbreads are blistered, and whole animals are butchered and roasted over glowing coals.
The menu defies convention – no starters or mains here, instead snacks, tacos, chopped, smoked and grilled meat, sides and vegetables, sauces and sprinkles.
Aged cheeseburger taco and its chewy, crispy grilled cheese was crudely beautiful, while another of crab, avocado, tomato, lime cheeks and Pickled Onion Monster Munch crumbs (yes, really) proved mostly male/beardy/tattooed kitchen crew here can do delicate, too.
Fall-apart hunks of animal are served piled on the flatbreads, which you’re then encouraged to tear and roll up with the sauces and sprinkles – get them all, they’re all brilliant, especially the blackened pepper salsa, and shrimps with peanuts and lime zest.
Temper - Restaurant Review - Just Opened London
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Neil Rankin is the high priest of this new London restaurant in the heart of Soho having built up a cult following amongst low & slow devotees at his Smokehouse venues in Islington and Chiswick and was part of the original group at the now legendary Pitt Cue (note: we think the original Pitt Cue was better than its new home in the city).
The discovery that it was a good idea to cook meat is argued to be the tipping point at which we left our neanderthal ancestors behind, leaving them to discuss who’s turn it was it to chew on the mammoth leg.
Anyway, we’re glad someone first put meat over a flame because it ended up a few thousand years later with new openings like Temper on Broadwick St. Don’t be fooled by the small reception area on ground level – down the stairs is where you need to go whereupon you will see, through the smoke, a brigade of chefs moving between joints of meat perched at varying heights above smouldering trays of charcoal.
The mackerel tacos gave a good hit of firm fresh flesh with smokey chargrilled skin, the kitchen showing an unexpected delicate touch.
Big, confident, atmospheric and good value for the quality of the produce; Temper is an exciting addition to the London restaurant scene.
Temper, Soho, London: restaurant review
food
From ground level it looks like just another wine bar, but head underground and it’s a dark den of mezcal, smoke, meat and, er, Pickled Onion Monster Munch.
It’s cavernous, with booths and tables filling every corner, but if you want a piece of the real action, grab a counter seat around the open kitchen where tacos are hand-pressed, flatbreads are blistered, and whole animals are butchered and roasted over glowing coals.
The menu defies convention – no starters or mains here, instead snacks, tacos, chopped, smoked and grilled meat, sides and vegetables, sauces and sprinkles.
Aged cheeseburger taco and its chewy, crispy grilled cheese was crudely beautiful, while another of crab, avocado, tomato, lime cheeks and Pickled Onion Monster Munch crumbs (yes, really) proved mostly male/beardy/tattooed kitchen crew here can do delicate, too.
Fall-apart hunks of animal are served piled on the flatbreads, which you’re then encouraged to tear and roll up with the sauces and sprinkles – get them all, they’re all brilliant, especially the blackened pepper salsa, and shrimps with peanuts and lime zest.
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Still, news of Neil Rankin taking over a vast site in a basement in Broadwick Street to serve South American-style coal-smoked barbecue, audacious tacos, raclette potatoes and gallons of Mezcal seemed archly logical.
My early memories involve his face poking out of the hatch one night at John Salt in Islington, mouthing an explicit word on spotting Grace & Flavour, then sending out a glorious bowl of smashed potato and chicken-skin hash.
Rankin had taken over at John Salt from a chef who had caused consternation by serving creamed chicken liver on a brick with popcorn, caramel and onion purée.
That chef left and Rankin took over, sealing himself in a lot of minds as a man who got the job of ‘actually feeding you’ done.
And with this in mind, we ordered a second round of cheeseburger tacos plus the aubergine chipotle miso tacos, which are certainly no feeble veggie option.
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You sit on a bar stool, fixed so close to the counter that if you’re over 5ft 9in your knees will be forced back into your body by the lumbar support, and watch sweaty men (and, to be fair, one woman) do things with fire, protein and fat.
The listing for beef, apparently a British White from Essex, says: “Mix of smoked rib meat, neck and shin, leg shawarma & grilled prime cuts.”
To pass the time until the meat comes there are filled tacos, and sauces including something called MSG Ketchup, which sounds like a new model of Volkswagen.
And there’s loud music, and meat and fat and smoke, and fat and meat.
Then there are those meats, starting at £5.50 per 100g for the pork, all leg and shoulder and belly with fat like ivory, to £8 per 100g for the beef and topping out at £9.50 for the goat.