Places to Eat in London: The Corner Room

You know how some meals just leaves you eating in silence with a massive grin on your face? Well, a couple of weeks ago I experienced this with every single course I had. I am referring a divine dinner I had at The Corner Room, London. 

The Corner Room is technically, a corner room. But it is a beautiful one decorated with old lamps and light bulbs hanging from the ceiling. The size of the room adds to its charm; it's not too big and rather cozy. First up we ordered some delicious bread and French wine. It had to be French because after spending more than seven years in France my sister only goes for French wine. Deep down I sometime think she's more French than Norwegian.

The starters had a good selection of things that just sounded really yummy, but there was one thing in particular that really caught our eye: Raw duck heart with seafood mayo. I have had chicken heart before, but that was grilled. This was RAW which I know can put a lot of people off, but I actually quite liked it. It was delicious, rich, almost a bit bloody and the seafood mayo just added depth to the meat.







Next up: main course.  My sister decided to have the rest of the duck and I went for lamb neck with barbeque swede and pickled baby radish. The sauce was spot on, the lamb was tender and moist and the vegetables were packed with flavour, yet somehow they still kept their earthy flavour (I mean this in a good way). We were warned beforehand that the duck would be cooked rare-medium/rare to which my sister replied "Perfect!" with a carnivorous grin.






And finally: the dessert. To be honest I wasn't blown away when we first ordered it, but when it arrived at the table I knew we were in for a treat. The Bramley apple with salted caramel, star anise, ice cream and nuts was DELICIOUS. At first those crunchy nuts and the lovely room temperature apple purée hits you then the salted caramel and cold ice cream (all served inside a cold apple) and finally... the star anise sneaks up on you like a ninja in the night. Perfection.

The chocolate mousse was divine, with a whole plate full of exciting little things (which I can't remember anymore. I just remember that it tasted amazing). For all of this you would expect to pay a fortune, however I was really pleasantly surprised by the price. The portions aren't big, but that suits me fine as I don't really like being served a massive plate of food. 

One of the things my sister and I have in common is our love of food. We love food and that's just a fact. We both get extremely excited about salads, tabbouleh, sea food buffets, you name it. In this case that shared love of food just made this whole experience even better. We both chewed in silence with the same expression as two excited little pugs. We became all giddy over dessert. We both gave each other that look that just said "I want to keep eating this. For days."

And finally I would like to thank her for actually booking a table. I'm silly and most of the time I forget to book. Glad she did though because if we missed out on this meal my life would have seemed less.. Fulfilled.

I just really need to go back.