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Dish of the day

WHAT? Langoustine on a bed

of pearl barley, cooked in veal

stock for 84 hours, and served

with asparagus.

WHERE? Canvas by Michael

Riemenschneider

HOW MUCH? The restaurant

prides itself on its diner-designed

tasting menus (£95 for 10 courses);

ordering one dish costs £20.

THEY SAID: 'Langoustines and

pearl barley, cooked in veal stock,

is a dazzling double helix of sweet

ocean and deep meaty ’ avours.'

Tony Naylor, The Guardian

'The langoustine was excellent,

sweet and lightly cooked, the

baby asparagus tender, the barley

adding a useful textural contrast.'

andyhayler.com

WE SAID: 'Flavours are subtle,

sophisticated and multi-layered:

witness a stand-out dish of

succulent langoustine perched

atop pearl barley with asparagus

and "jus crustace".'

69 Marylebone Lane, W1U 2PH

020 3589 9972

See our review of Canvas on p. 40

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RUNWAY RESTAURANTS

Heathrow's restaurant scene is taking o§ , with two bigname

venues set to launch when Terminal 2 reopens on 4

June. Heston Blumenthal will open The Perfectionists' Café,

a restaurant focused on the best of British food, which will

serve many of the dishes from his In Search of Perfection

TV series. Speaking about the opening, Blumenthal said:

'We want to deliver a broad spectrum of easy to enjoy,

familiar dishes from ­ sh and chips to pizza. We spent hours

researching the temperature of a pizza oven and the crunch

of batter; it's this inspiration that is behind the menu at

Heathrow.' Meanwhile, Gorgeous Kitchen will open in the

same terminal, led by an all-female team including Sophie

Michell, executive chef at Pont St. at Belgraves Hotel.

UP ONE'S STREETOne-trick restaurants and menus are big right now -

nowhere more so than on Exmouth Market EC1. At current

count, this one street is home to a new seafood-only

restaurant (Bonnie Gull Seafood Café, above), a pork

restaurant (Blackfoot), pizza place (GB Pizza Co), hummus

bar (Hummus Bros Levantine Kitchen), a spud specialist

(The Potato Merchant), and a frozen yoghurt shop (Yog).