I love Soho, it is vibrant, colorful - a place to find good food, delightful small specialty stores, and always always something interesting to look at around.
Today, we found two places for a spontaneous lunch around the area.
The first one was Copita, a Spanish Tapas place - http://www.copita.co.uk/
A very easy going place, good wine and quite delicious and different tapas.
We tried:
bread £2
roasted aubergine, hazelnut & tomato jus £5.45
truffled goat’s cheese, almond & honey £4.95
cured sardines, black olive & quince £5.10
octopus, potato & smoked paprika £12
Glasses of Red wines:
La Bascula Monastrell/Syrah 2012 (Jumilla) £4.95 £14.50 £29
Orto Garnacha/Carinena 2011 (Montsant) £5.95 £17.50 £35
Ribera del Duero (young: elegant & restrained, aged: both superb at price)
Young: Quinta Milu Tinto del Pais 2012 £5.70 £16.50 £33
Truffled goat's cheese was a revelation - I think we are hooked. It really worked well with almond and honey and it was a generous portion. I also really liked the octopus - very very softly cooked, thought I imagined it coming with scalloped potatoes rather than a mash, not that I am complaining.
Roasted aubergine was less liked by others, but a Turkish person must have her aubergine! So, there you go, I did not imagine the roasted hazelnuts would make such a positive difference. I might try this at home. The least exciting dish were the cured sardines, I did not very much taste the quince, it was overpowered by the black olive. Not bad, but not in the same league with the others.
We considered having desserts there - there were some interesting items in the menu - like a coconut cake and allspice icecream.
But the rest was, well, restless, so we ended up having our dessert in the nearby Gellupo http://www.gelupo.com/
Do not be scared away seeing the long queues - it moves pretty smoothly. We ended up having affogatos, which came with hazelnut icecream. And they were absolutely a delight, if you like your coffee and icecream and can't decide between the two! Other flavors we tried were cream and strawberry, good but more cream than strawberry. The other flavor was ricotta honey and coffee and that was very very good.
Soho has some delight in every corner but this pairing agreed with us very well. We'll come again!
Today, we found two places for a spontaneous lunch around the area.
The first one was Copita, a Spanish Tapas place - http://www.copita.co.uk/
A very easy going place, good wine and quite delicious and different tapas.
We tried:
bread £2
roasted aubergine, hazelnut & tomato jus £5.45
truffled goat’s cheese, almond & honey £4.95
cured sardines, black olive & quince £5.10
octopus, potato & smoked paprika £12
Glasses of Red wines:
La Bascula Monastrell/Syrah 2012 (Jumilla) £4.95 £14.50 £29
Orto Garnacha/Carinena 2011 (Montsant) £5.95 £17.50 £35
Ribera del Duero (young: elegant & restrained, aged: both superb at price)
Young: Quinta Milu Tinto del Pais 2012 £5.70 £16.50 £33
Truffled goat's cheese was a revelation - I think we are hooked. It really worked well with almond and honey and it was a generous portion. I also really liked the octopus - very very softly cooked, thought I imagined it coming with scalloped potatoes rather than a mash, not that I am complaining.
Roasted aubergine was less liked by others, but a Turkish person must have her aubergine! So, there you go, I did not imagine the roasted hazelnuts would make such a positive difference. I might try this at home. The least exciting dish were the cured sardines, I did not very much taste the quince, it was overpowered by the black olive. Not bad, but not in the same league with the others.
We considered having desserts there - there were some interesting items in the menu - like a coconut cake and allspice icecream.
But the rest was, well, restless, so we ended up having our dessert in the nearby Gellupo http://www.gelupo.com/
Do not be scared away seeing the long queues - it moves pretty smoothly. We ended up having affogatos, which came with hazelnut icecream. And they were absolutely a delight, if you like your coffee and icecream and can't decide between the two! Other flavors we tried were cream and strawberry, good but more cream than strawberry. The other flavor was ricotta honey and coffee and that was very very good.
Soho has some delight in every corner but this pairing agreed with us very well. We'll come again!
