So I went
to this place called Sticky Walnut
for lunch. I ate bread, quail, brassicas and plaice. It was all rather
delicious. Then I had some chocolate tart with bits of orange and a sorbet.
To start,
people who work in the kitchen had put breast and leg from a quail in a bowl
with a carrot purée, choi sum and some dukkah (which is a mixture of nuts,
herbs and spices from Egypt (where the Pyramids are). Around this they had poured
a vegetable ‘nage’, which is a type of poncy broth.
The same
people had done some clever things to vegetables; they had caramelised cauliflower
and served it with broccoli, carrot and walnuts (the place has walnut in its
name too!) I particularly liked the Romanesco broccoli, which they had pickled.
It made me happy.
With the plaice
they had put some ox cheek into breadcrumbs, which I liked a lot. The fish was on
what some restaurants would call a ‘bed of’ pearl barley (here they just called
it ‘pearl barley’). They also used some wild garlic, which is a type of garlic that
grows in the wild! I know, crazy huh?
One
particularly clever person made a chocolate tart and served it with some clementine
segments and a blood orange sorbet – I’d like to marry him.
Some nice
people who do not work in the kitchen brought the food to me on plates. They
were smiley and chatty but not overly so. I liked them.
I took
some pictures… wanna see?
Breast & leg of quail, carrot, choi sum, dukkah & vegetable nage
Brassica salad, pickled Romanesco, caramelised cauliflower, purple
sprouting broccoli, carrot & walnuts
Plaice fillet, braised gem, pearl barley, wild garlic, pickled cucumber
& oxtail croquette
Hand cut truffle & Parmesan chips
Dark chocolate tart, blood orange sorbet
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