Amazingly tender suckling pig, flown in each week from Segovia & roasted for 24 hours is a star turn (served only from Monday to Thursday) & there are also several seafood & rice specialities, plus a fine chocolate cake made with salt & olive oil to finish.
Accompanied by a number of well matched wines from the extensive Spanish wine list, this was a damn good Monday night to be alive! In fact, With a meal this outstanding, perhaps we need to encourage the Spanish to take over our local dining options!
As that mystifyingly underrated food critic Jim Bowen used to remind us, you can't beat a bit of El Bulli. Even those of us who have never eaten in Ferran Adria's temple to molecular gastronomy speak of it as probably the best restaurant in the world, and barely a month now passes without a protege opening up in London. It almost feels as though Adria has a plan, modelled on the one deployed by the emperor of Daleks after the apparent destruction of his species in the last Time War, to use former staff to infiltrate and assimilate the systems of earth...
I'm so keen I'm even offering travel arrangements, because this is the nearest I've got in Britain to a real Spanish restaurant.
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