Wild Alaskan cod aglio olio from Flutes Restaurant – spaghettini, garlic and sesame crumbs. The aglio olio dish conducted itself with a boarding school, violin lesson-esque refined poshness, with the essence of the cod being fully absorbed by the herby, firm spaghettini. 4/5 Flutes Restaurant 93 Stamford Road The National…
Nori Tsukudani Spaghettini with King Prawn from Wild Rocket. Essentially an unexpectedly tantalising outcome of a torrid affair between aquatic flora and a passionate feisty fruit, with the firm pasta being the wavy vessel for the back and forth drama to play out. Elsewhere, the royal crustacean had a suitably…
Halia’s Singapore-style chilli crab spaghettini in spicy, sweet & tangy sauce. The crab bits were big, firm and intact, as if they were extracted fully from the shell instead of being all minced and clumpy. The spaghettini was nicely thin and slurpsome, and the spiciness at play is subtle -…