Kricket
Oh, and I want to call out the service too as having been particularly attentive and friendly throughout. We get good service almost everywhere we go (side-rant: we get good service in 99 meals out of 100 and probably eat out that often every year, so I do want to ask all the people who leave bad service reviews online… is it them, or is it really you?) and at Kricket it was notably good. After our first dishes arrived, the manager even paused to check whether we wanted to cancel any of the later dishes now we’d seen the size of what we’d ordered. Thoughtful! But, no… it all looked far too tempting.
Samphire pakoras
Venison tartare with a warming spice to the meat, scattered with lots of Jerusalem artichoke chips and some splendid black garlic chutney was perhaps the dish of the day. Their house fried chicken was tasty, with a gentle curry leaf mayo to dip it in, but didn’t really knock my socks off. Final dish was a burnt garlic tarka dal, good flavour and texture, and it went very well with the awesome wild garlic kulcha that we ordered as our bread. Lovely and buttery and garlicky.
They’ve got a strong cocktail game at Kricket too, with really clean and distinctive flavours like the fragrant saffron vermouth in my “Reversal” and punchy flavours of chilli rum and mango blended well in Maureen’s “Dark Matter”. You’ll spend £32-ish each for food, and this is instantly among my favourite modern Indian street-food-style cooking in London.
Bhel puri
