Sketch

[miniman]

My first visit to a "proper" swanky London restaurant tonight; we held a dinner for 20 CEOs at Sketch. Not sure what I was expecting. Here's the menu, along with my less-than-expert review:

Starter: Avocado veloute/salad of gambas au fleur du sel/tomato and mango concasses/mozzarella cream

Nice prawns. Avacado veloute rank. Didn't see any mango.

Main: roast duck breast and lemon balm/plum sauce/red pepper and mango/agria potato gnocchi and shiso salad

Duck nicely cooked but under-seasoned for my liking. Gnocchi very nice, shiso salad = purple cress.

Cheese: skewer of morbier cheese/camembert and golden apple tartlet/rocquefort ice cream and preserved cherry

All vomitous. Particularly the rocquefort ice cream.

Dessert: bubble gum ice cream/lemon wurtz/orange blossom marshmallow/pannacotta/crispy green tea

Sickly combined with tart, combined with those fizzy exploding candy things (which I assume was the green tea).

The ambience was bizarre, that's the only way to describe it. Plastic "blood" pouring down the stairs. Egg-shaped cocoon things instead of stters. Odd laser-pointer lighting which they refused to turn off.

All in all, 3/10, very disappointed. Perhaps I am just getting old but the whole thing struck me as contrived, full of braying city boys and French existentialist types and the food (albeit for 20) nothing to write home about. Bah.

www.sketch.uk.com

[threesixty]

Good place for a drink, bad place to eat.

Definitely tries far too hard, but i like the quirky decor and they mix excellent cocktails.

Edited by threesixty on Thursday 30th April 01:36

[bridgdav]

You didn't think of going there before taking guests..?

[miniman]

bridgdav said:

You didn't think of going there before taking guests..?

Not my choice, I was effectively a guest (making up the numbers for someone who dropped out). Our event organisers had been before, I believe.