 Bibendum, Michelin House |
- Brompton Quarter Café, 223 Brompton Road, 020 72252107
| This is a smart, informal space of small tables and efficiency, to duck into alone or with a friend. They offer delicious salad plates in great variety such as ultra tender octopus vinaigrette, or wild rice with pomegranate seeds and shreds of duck, or smoky baba ghanouj, or roasted artichokes. You can eyeball everything before you plunge. Light, fresh hot dishes are available too. |
- Bibendum, Michelin House, 81 Fulham Road, 020 75815817
| This goofy, charming building that now houses three restaurant tiers (coffee shop to formal) was built in 1909 to the glory of Michelin’s bulbous tyre man mascot (and the firm behind him) You can glimpse him portrayed in stained glass riding a bicycle even in this small picture, and the ripples of his belly fat that inspire the building's finials. Faience inserts along the white tiled, circular ground floor, which now serves as venue for light lunch and oysters, depict old time speedsters bombing about the countryside. The place is worth a visit for ambiance alone, although a recent roasted tomato soup with basil was very tasty. Don’t miss the vintage poster of Michelin man toasting the assembled in Latin, 'Nunc Bibendum', along the steps up to the loo! |
- Tartine, 114 Draycott Street (just off the join of Fulham and Brompton Streets), 207 75894981
| If open-faced French sandwiches on wide crisp toast strike your fancy, this is the place. |
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September 30, 2007 at 10:22am
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Genre: Food (Regions)
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Tags: restaurant, review, , V&A, Museum
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