Barbacoa opened a couple days ago and there are now links available for the menu as well as a bunch of other interesting reading. The menu is diverse but does tend to lean in part on American BBQ staples presented in cheffed-up manner. There is also a pretty interesting selection of seafood dishes to choose from. I'll update this post one last time after the UK press delivers a few reviews for us to chew on.
British superchef Jamie Oliver and American BBQ guru Adam Perry Lang are just a few weeks away from opening the doors on their first joint partnership restaurant, Barbacoa, near St. Paul's in London, UK. Jamie has posted a few pictures on Twitter recently and it made me think it would be a good time to share them with you. I interviewed Adam a few months ago and spoke with him about the restaurant concept. I had wrongly assumed that Jamie had tapped Adam to bring American style BBQ to London. Barbacoa is actually going to have a menu that offers live fire cooking styles and techniques from around the globe. According to the Barbacoa website, the restaurant will also have a storefront selling meats butchered in-house as well as house cured meats. Adam said that he and Jamie share the same culinary viewpoint in sourcing high quality ingredients from local, natural or organic producers and then treating those ingredients with attention and care to arrive at a delicious conclusion. I think London has something to be quite excited about when they throw open the doors in a few weeks on Barbacoa.
Went to the Barbacoa Butchers yesterday and bought some organic lamb for a mid week roast - I can honestly say that I haven't tasted lamb like that since I was a child growing up on an organic farm - utterly scrumptious and it came with advice and fulled dressed. Thank you I will be back later this week!
Posted by: KGB | March 30, 2011 at 05:03 AM
1) Staff at reception tried to tell us the restaurant behind the curtain was full, when i dropped in the fact we had a table booked 2hours later but would like to dine now we were led to a near empty restaurant (pretentious).
2) We were given the choice of the worst two cramped tables in the restaurant.
3) I had to ask the manager if there was any chance of getting any drinks.
4) We both had the pulled pork (£16 each!), measly portions considering this was supposed to be a bar b q pit restaurant, and that pork shoulder is a very very cheap cut of meat.
5) A 12.5% service charge was added, excessive and not deserved.
No reason to revisit this average place, and not recommended.
Posted by: paul c | May 12, 2011 at 10:25 AM