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| A food hall near [[Farringdon Station]] with an eccentric selection and a restaurant offering high quality French-style cooking using fresh British ingredients (often their own produce and that of the nearby market). |
A food hall with an eccentric selection and a restaurant offering high quality French-style cooking using fresh British ingredients (often their own produce and that of the nearby market). |
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See also: * [http://www.london-eating.co.uk/180.htm London Eating comments] |
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host='86.163.107.94' hours_text='8:30am-10pm Mon-Sat; closed Sun' |
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summary='Fine restaurant and eccentric food hall by Farringdon station.' |
summary='Fine restaurant and eccentric food hall by Farringdon station' |
A food hall with an eccentric selection and a restaurant offering high quality French-style cooking using fresh British ingredients (often their own produce and that of the nearby market).
As a restaurant, Flaneur serves unpretentious French cuisine based on good ingredients at a price that is not stratospheric (starts from £6 to £10, main courses £13 to £18, fixed price meal £17.50) from a menu that changes on a daily basis. To go with your food, they have an impressive selection of good wines, beers, ports, sherries, brandies, liqueurs and juices, all of which are also on sale from the food hall. The desserts are not only high quality but an experience, since they are normally accompanied to the table by a huge bowl of Chantilly cream (so well whipped that you could stand the ladle upright in it; itsbruce knows people who want to dive into that bowl.
As a food hall, it offers fresh and prepared vegetables (mostly organic), cakes and biscuits baked in the store, a takeaway selection from the day's menu and a range of goods (beer, wine, sherry, cheese, chocolate and more) from independent, artisanal producers from across continental Europe, Britain and the Americas . There are also some oddly mundane goods (standard U.S. pancake mix) on the shelves.
The shelves are very tall and stuffed with goodies; the dining tables are set closely together between the shelves and the food stalls. It can feel odd to eat here and have shoppers edging past your table. It can be disconcerting to reach past diners to get at your choice of fruit pickled in brandy. Over the years they have put in more tables and reduced the number of food stalls, which itsbruce finds a bit of a shame as their range of goods has shrunk a little.
The staff are mostly friendly but a couple of the senior staff are unpredictable and can be amazingly rude to unfamiliar customers.
The decor manages to be both elegant and utilitarian (which would be a good description for the whole approach of this place). The toilets are beautiful and kept very clean but downstairs and not easily accessible to the less-than-able-bodied.
Overall, an unusual and interesting place and worth trying out (many times, in itsbruce's case).
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