Support your neighbourhood elaborate restaurant

[fivemack]

Alimentum, opposite the cinema just after the perpetually-roadworked bridge on Hills Road, have a pudding made out of marshmallows, honeycomb, toffee, banana icecream and caramel mousse, served in a smoke-filled preserving jar. It tastes of bonfire night with bananas.

I convinced the Geek Pizza People to be Geek Elaborate-Restaurant People this week, and a good time and fantastic food seems to have been had by all. Maybe leave a few weeks to recover from the shock of the new, then propose sushi.

Comments

[kaberett.livejournal.com]

OOI did anyone have the vegetarian option? If so, what did they make of it? From the menus it tends to look... well, as though they've put a lot less effort and imagination into it from any of the meat dishes - is this also the case in person, as it were?

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

We had the prix-fixe menu, so there was a choice of two starters one of which could be vegetarianised, and three mains one of which was vegetarian.

The veggie main course was a cauliflower risotto, which a couple of non-vegetarians had with every sign of enjoyment; the veggie starter was lettuce soup with the bacon left out of the smear of cheese-and-bacon stuff on the side, and generally went down very well. It was quite strikingly green.

I think we were having too much of a discussion of politics to apply any very serious critique to the food; maybe poke cartesiandaemon?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

liv's description seemed valid to me.

[liv]

I've been to Alimentum a couple of times, and yeah, the veggie option tends to be less exciting than the meat. If you take the prix fixe menu (which is vaguely affordable!) the veggie option will probably be soup followed by risotto or similar. Very good soup and risotto, but still, doing a simple thing well rather than something exotic. Their desserts are out of this world, though. OK, I have a sweet tooth, but I do find that a lot of grand restaurants don't have desserts up to the quality of their mains. Alimentum serves stuff miles better than any other dessert I've tasted.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I wonder if this dessert was vegetarian? Marshmallows are variable in this respect.

I should probably find time to go to some vegetarian restaurants when in London, really.