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😒 3/5 - Recently I had lunch with my colleagues at a new restaurant
By 👻 @Jeanne-Marie B., 02/20/2017 3:00 am
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Recently I had lunch with my colleagues at a new restaurant in Clerkenwell. 'Luca' is located on St John Street (where the restaurant Portal was previously) and serves Italian-British cuisine. It was opened in 2016 by the head chef Isaac McHale and his partners Johnny Smith and Daniel Willis, who have also opened the michelin star restaurant Clove Club in Shoreditch.From the outside the restaurant looks very small, but is pretty spacious in reality as there are several rooms at the back which are not visible from the street.The first room has some tables for 4 people, a bar and a reception with an hostess. This place is ideal to sip some cocktails and share antipasti.The second room has wooden tables with red leather seats and a view of the opened kitchen. Finally the last room where we had lunch was a huge veranda with large windows and brick walls. There is also an open kitchen at the back where you can see the team preparing dishes.Our lunch began with some bread served with olive oil. The olive oil was delicious and it reminded me the one I tried when I was younger in Tuscany near Pescia. Then we shared some antipasti: a salad of artichoke with celery and Pecorino (13 £), and two portions of scallops served on Jerusalem artichoke purée with nduja (13 £ each dish). The team arranged for us free of charge a plate with three scallops rather than 2, so we had one scallop per person. We appreciated the attention.The scallops were presented on salt. They were excellent and cooked to perfection with a smooth and delicious purée. On the other hand, I found that the salad of artichoke wasn't worth the price. It lacked seasoning and there was not a lot of artichoke.As a main course, my colleagues ordered the Rump of Hereford beef (£25), the rigatoni with pork sausage, tomato, anchovy & mint (£11), and warm salad of winter vegetables, goat's curd with black truffle (£21). I opted for the pheasant and mushrooms agnolotti, served in a broth with slices of truffle. The broth was good and the agnolotti were perfectly cooked. I couldn't taste any pheasant in the dish and the slices of truffles didn't bring any flavour.For dessert I had the apple crostata with custard (£8) while my colleagues tried the chocolate mousse (£9) and the pear and frangipane tart and rum custard (£8).This restaurant is certainly in the running for a Michelin star, just like the Clove Club. You can feel this by the way the plates are presented and the attention which is given to the service by the team. Some of the dishes were perfectly executed but it wasn't necessarily good value for money as the portions were a bit small.I will certainly come back to Luca for dinner to celebrate a special occasion as I think it will be totally suitable for this, but for a simple lunch it was a bit overrated and too formal.
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