Flesh & Buns Covent Garden

Izakaya in London by Ross Shonhan.

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Flesh Buns | Covent Garden Restaurant We now present a short list of London restaurants whose names could also be strip clubs: Dip FlipShoreditch GrindDickie FitzFlesh and BunsWhich – not at all by coincidence we suspect – is owned by the same people behind Bone Daddies.

The menu boasts a variety Japanese finger foods and bar snacks (soft-shell crab, sushi rolls, fried squid, etc.), but the main event here is the bao buns.

NOTE: Flesh and Buns is now open seven days a week for lunch and dinner.

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Review: Flesh & Bone - The Adelaide Review

Noted for it’s mix of florid Shakespeare-like dialogue alongside contemporary slang and profanity, Flesh & Bone tells the tale of five poor buggers with verbal extravagance.

Everyone has something to hide, and part of Flesh & Bone’s beauty is how these characters, who first appear as cockney caricatures, peel back their hardened façades to reveal the vulnerabilities and deep desires all humans share.

Language is, of course, a key part of Flesh & Bone’s appeal.

While Flesh & Bone doesn’t hit the audience over the head with it, there is the creeping message here that while this rogue’s gallery is stuck in the “black treacle” of poverty, we who live comfortable lives are a part of the society that keeps them marginalised.

Flesh & Bone is certainly a rollercoaster, with a super physical and hyper verbal performance taking one into the highs and lows of the lives of those at the bottom of the ladder, stripping their souls as bare as the stage its played on.

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And now the bleak-sounding Flesh Buns in Earlham Street, serving Taiwanese-style steamed hirata buns ready to be stuffed with ‘flesh’ of your choosing: braised pork belly, crispy duck, salmon teriyaki and so on.

The room is large, practical, purposefully shabby, like a delicious-smelling air-raid shelter with limitless sake, on-tap Asahi, a pleasing array of small raw plates such as tuna tataki, some basic sushi options and the hubbub of endless baskets of steaming, spongy hirata being shipped to the benches and large family-friendly booths, begging to be loaded with hot meat and drizzled with mustard miso or sesame-tinged gooeyness.

I wonder how many might hesitate at the stairway to Flesh Buns imagining it’s an experience ripe with dining faux pas; an ancient genteel Taiwanese ceremony of steamed buns and meat erected with chopsticks as panpipe Celine Dion wafts over the stereo.

I dearly hope the general public will overlook the name, locate the basement, bend their minds around hirata and turn Flesh Buns into the big Wagamama-style British eating cornerstone it should rightfully be.

Flesh Buns is the second London opening from chef and proprietor Ross Shonhan, following on from the Bone Daddies ramen restaurant over on Peter Street in Soho.

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The buns of the title are the soft, pillowy rice-flour buns appropriated from the Chinese repertoire by David Chang in New York, who stuffed them with seared slices of pork belly and Korean sauce.

They were then lovingly ripped off in London by Yum Bun, and have now become the focus of the menu here, alongside a list of Japanese-influenced snacks and small plates and a little straight-up sashimi and sushi.

It is a defiantly London restaurant with a cartoonish menu of Asian food, which riffs on all the salty and sweet things we tend to love from those traditions.

The rice in a spicy tuna roll may be a little dry, in a way that would make sushi aficionados scowl, but by now I am into the swing of things, lost in the noise and the brashness of it all, and the bursts of flame from the grill in the open kitchen at my elbow.

I first came across buns like these in the early 80s when certain London Chinese restaurants started to use them instead of pancakes with crispy (!)

The Handbook Reviews Flesh & Buns in Covent Garden

What:  A secret, Covent Garden den of meat and steamed buns, Flesh & Buns was opened by Ross Shonhan as part of the Bones Daddies Collection, bringing London a taste of the Izakaya – the Japanese pub culture.

New: Flesh & Buns originally opened back in 2013, specialising in gua bao – those sticky, fluffy Taiwanese buns we all can’t get enough of, long before the craze really took over us, in comparison, Bao didn’t open their first permanent site until 2015.

Of course, it’s mainly about those fluffy, white buns, but the menu also features snacks, raw dishes, rolls and small plates.

The main restaurant is dark with deep reds and low hanging pendant lights, the sort of place that will leave you blinking when you reemerge into the street, were you to go for lunch.

The humble corn on the cob is given the Flesh & Buns makeover with shichimi and a lime mayonnaise glaze – mayonnaise in its many variations features heavily on the menu.

Flesh & Buns | Restaurants in Covent Garden, London

In a capacious Covent Garden basement, brilliant Asian-inspired food with an emphasis on fill-your-own Taiwanese steamed buns.

How did food get quite so rock ’n’ roll?

It’s still making a big noise, literally, with New York-style Japanese noodle dishes and the sound system cranked up loud enough to make conversation a challenge.

Once again he’s taken influence from the Big Apple for his East Asian eats, with a side order of loud rock music.

If loud guitar music and DIY dining are not your idea of a relaxing meal, then Flesh and Buns is not for you.