Pollen Street Social - 1st of June 2013

I have been to Pollen Street Social before with my hubby for dinner - this time it was for lunch with my girlfriends.

They have a really well priced set lunch menu - 2 courses for £26 or 3 courses for £29.50 with a choice of 3 options for each course. You also get some included extras: little nibbles to start (green olives, cod brandade, pork scratchings and apple sauce), bread, pre dessert and petit fours.

Pollen Street Social Lunch menu

We were seated close to the bar area which was quite busy and good for some good old fashioned people watching!

I started off with the "Grilled mackerel, "Waldorf salad", peanut powder, English radish"

It was nice but i felt that the description was slightly mis leading since the mackerel was more soused than grilled - i also did not taste the peanut powder.
Saying that - it was a light and tasty starter.

Starter

My main was the "Roasted Atlantic Cod, Catalan paella, Asparagus, Pepper and chorizo puree"

The paella was the star of the show here.. it was served in a side dish so you added it to your plate yourself. It was amazing, rich in flavour and with lots of prawns and perfectly spiced - i could have eaten more! The Cod was perfectly cooked and i really enjoyed the dish.

 

 

Desserts were the star(s) of the show though.. 2 of us went for the Tiramisu and 2 of us for the Eton Mess. I loved the Tiramisu which was almost like a vanilla pannacotta, with chocolate ice cream, chewy cookie crumbs, chocolate chards and a side of thick hot chocolate served in an espresso cup with a hint of coffee. Lovely. The Eton Mess looked absolutely spectacular and it was apparently very good too!

We then had some mint tea and got some petit fours and macarons. The petit fours were interesting -Milk chocolates with a balsamic caramel, yoghurt coated freeze dried raspberries, dark chocolate with a raspberry mousse inside. The macarons nobody really liked - they were too sugary and the filling was just pure buttercream with not much flavour.. they were supposedly, chocolate, green tea and .. hmm.. can't remember!!!

We did however also get some "hot from the oven" Raspberry Financiers.. they were amazing.. and eaten before a photo could be taken!

It was 4 of us for lunch - 3 courses each and with one bottle of wine between us (how sensible!), 2 bottles of water, 3 mint teas, service charge etc it came to £50 per person which i think is pretty good value.