Harden's survey result
Summary
“A tiny spot with just over 20 covers and food to die for” – the focus is very much on the “very clever cooking at an affordable price point” at this “personal” Farringdon address, run by head chef Anthony Raffo and manager Marie Danzanvilliers. The food is “super-seasonal” (“sometimes foraged within a stone’s throw of the restaurant”), “traditional techniques are revived with pickles and ferments” and the resulting dishes have “exceptional flavour combinations and contrasts”.
Summary
“Superbly original cooking” showcasing British ingredients is the hallmark of Mark Jarvis’s “unshowy, minimalist little restaurant” in Farringdon. Structured around a tasting menu of nine small plates, the “food is about as locally sourced as you can get – sometimes foraged less than a stone’s throw from the restaurant”. “The flavour combinations and contrasts are exceptional, and every dish is beautifully plated and presented”, with due attention paid to minimising waste and reviving traditional techniques such as pickling and fermenting. (Note, “while still under the guiding hand of Mark Jarvis, Anthony Raffo nowadays cooks as head chef”).
Summary
“It’s all about the food” – “thought-provoking flavour combinations that hit all the right notes” – at Mark Jarvis’s “incredible” venture, where the main options (other than a three-course menu at lunch) are its six- or seven-course tasting menus (alongside “drink pairings which segue into cider and sour beers for dessert – another sign of a willingness to break the mould”). “Service is less polished” though: ditto the surroundings – a “soulless”, “minimal room stuck in lawyer-land” near Hatton Garden. Still, “it’s hard to find the words to describe just what good value it is”. Come on Michelin, wake up and give the lad a star.
Summary
“It’s all about the food” – “thought-provoking flavour combinations that hit all the right notes” – at Mark Jarvis’s “incredible” venture, where the main options (other than a three-course menu at lunch) are its six- or seven-course tasting menus (alongside “drink pairings which segue into cider and sour beers for dessert – another sign of a willingness to break the mould”). “Service is less polished” though: ditto the surroundings – a “soulless”, “minimal room stuck in lawyer-land” near Hatton Garden. Still, “it’s hard to find the words to describe just what good value it is”. Come on Michelin, wake up and give the lad a star.
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Anglo Restaurant Diner Reviews
"Tasting menu"
"We visited for a lunch on a very rainy, grey Saturday in November. The restaurant is in a backstreet of Farringdon near Hatton Garden - very unassuming and very easy to walk past without realising what a culinary gem lurked there. The restaurant is small with a concrete floor and simple wooden tables. We were served by a solitary, delightful, charming and well informed waitress/ maitre d’ who guided us through each course. The 5 course lunch tasting menu (+ 2 supplementary courses) was fantastic - each course a work of art and each bursting with flavour. An amuse bouche of a delicate walnut and sweetcorn tart smothered in cheese, fermented carrot soup topped by a delicate pastry tree with black garlic and chickweed, a supplementary oyster dish with seaweed reeking of the sea and a dish of perfectly cooked squab (pigeon) with swede. The extra cheese course was a stunning tunworth cheese ice cream with prune purée and then a delicate buckwheat ice cream with beetroot powder and berries. Every course a delicious revelation. Anglo fully deserves it’s rave reviews."
Prices
 Drinks |
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| Wine per bottle | £30.00 |
| Filter Coffee | £4.00 |
 Extras |
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| Bread | £0.00 |
| Service | 12.50% |
30 St Cross Street, London, EC1N 8UH
Opening hours
| Monday | CLOSED |
| Tuesday | 6 pm‑11 pm |
| Wednesday | 6 pm‑11 pm |
| Thursday | 6 pm‑11 pm |
| Friday | 12:30 pm‑4 pm, 6 pm‑11 pm |
| Saturday | 12:30 pm‑4 pm, 6 pm‑11 pm |
| Sunday | CLOSED |
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