Harden's survey result
Summary
“Beautifully prepared fish-centric tapas and a super-cool setting” make this “fab Holloway Road local” small-plates venue “a perfect place to impress your out-of-towner mates… or even those that live in London!” There’s a “small but interesting list” of “brilliant orange and other low-intervention wines”. Top Tip – “leave space for the rum baba – you’ll need to share”.
Summary
A hipster hit of recent years, Jeremie Cometto-Lingenheim and David Gingell’s “lively”, hard-surfaced operation off the Holloway Road has built a strong following for its zeitgeisty style, matched with “inventive and well-presented” fish and seafood cooking, with ingredients from ‘regenerative producers’, and an “interesting” list of low-intervention wines. “I’m not a great fan of small plates but we decided to have every dish on the menu – and it has to be said they were all excellent.”
Summary
“Innovative food” in a “hard and echoey” space still packs in the crowds at this hipster hit of a couple of years ago, just off the Holloway Road, which fans feel has a “great vibe” (even despite the fact that “when the place is full, conversation can be close to impossible”). The venue has always had its detractors, though, and there were more vocal complaints this year that the whole approach is “a little too cool for its own good” (i.e. “pleased with itself” and “disappearing up its own fundament”); which results in food that’s “not bad but underwhelming, so hard to see what all the fuss is about”. Also the natural wine list, “while pleasingly ambitious and different, has a high percentage of misses” (to the extent it can seem “plain daft”).
Summary
“Innovative food” in a “hard and echoey” space still packs in the crowds at this hipster hit of a couple of years ago, just off the Holloway Road, which fans feel has a “great vibe” (even despite the fact that “when the place is full, conversation can be close to impossible”). The venue has always had its detractors, though, and there were more vocal complaints this year that the whole approach is “a little too cool for its own good” (i.e. “pleased with itself” and “disappearing up its own fundament”); which results in food that’s “not bad but underwhelming, so hard to see what all the fuss is about”. Also the natural wine list, “while pleasingly ambitious and different, has a high percentage of misses” (to the extent it can seem “plain daft”).
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"super cool local"
"The seafood is spectacular and almost justifies the prices - mussels with nduja were so good we had to order two. Tables are generally shared as with sister restaurant Primeur. Even my other half who is not a fan of natural wine enjoyed the sparkling. We’d go just for the rum baba. "
Prices
 Drinks |
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| Wine per bottle | £27.00 |
| Filter Coffee | £3.00 |
 Extras |
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| Service | 12.50% |
34 Drayton Park, London, N5 1PB
Opening hours
| Monday | CLOSED |
| Tuesday | 5:30 pm‑10:30 pm |
| Wednesday | 5:30 pm‑10:30 pm |
| Thursday | 5:30 pm‑10:30 pm |
| Friday | 5:30 pm‑10:30 pm |
| Saturday | 12 pm‑2:30 pm, 5:30 pm‑10:30 pm |
| Sunday | 12 pm‑2:30 pm, 5:30 pm‑9 pm |
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