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Opening July 2024 in De Beauvoir, on the border between Islington and Hackney, a wine bar and restaurant serving biodynamic and natural wines alongside seasonal and sustainable sharing plates. Also on-site, pour-over specialist coffee shop Day Trip and gelato bar the Dreamery.

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21 Halliford Street, London, N1 3HB

Goodbye Horses Restaurant Diner Reviews

Reviews of Goodbye Horses Restaurant in N1, London by users of Hardens.com. Also see the editors review of Goodbye Horses restaurant.
Catherine M
It’s not really a restaurant. It’s a wi...
Reviewed 2 months, 7 days ago

"It’s not really a restaurant. It’s a wine bar with okay bar snacks. Friendly and the space is nice but heavens it is loud. Wins the most impenetrable wine list ever award. "

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What the Newspaper Critics are saying

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Charlotte Ivers dined fashionably early at a cool new restaurant, an experience that left her as “frazzled” as the waiter, given that the tables were limited to 60 minutes (90 minutes if you sit at the counter), her boyfriend was 18 minutes late, and they had to negotiate their way through a tricky list of unfamiliar wines which “like all natural wines were perfectly nice if you like the taste of hay dissolved in vinegar (which I do), and perfectly horrible if you don’t”.

“There’s some great stuff” on the menu, she said, praising a “lovely, hearty oxtail ragout with rice” and a “chic” tomato salad on a bed of figs and crumbled Spenwood cheese.

But “I can’t report on the bread treacle ice cream because at 86 minutes we were told they needed the table (sorry, slice of bar) back. ‘But you could eat it standing up?’ says the waiter hopefully. Sorry. Life is too short, and doing that would make me wish it was shorter. He says he’s sorry, and looks it. He offers a free glass of dessert wine, then seems immediately to forget we accepted the offer. We don’t push it — he’s frazzled.”

Charlotte’s conclusion: “It’ll be really good. But go in a year or two.

Charlotte Ivers - 2024-10-06
21 Halliford Street, London, N1 3HB

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