Depot
I was a little unnerved when five of us sat down for tapas-style food at Depot recently, having just seen someone unplug the microphone-enabled CCTV camera, but when the bin-end South African red started flowing, I soon stopped caring.
We ordered 10 dishes between us: pigeon breast with chorizo, butternut squash mash, roasted vegetables with halloumi, haddock with tarragon and poached egg, pan fried beef strips, chinese style seaweed with aniseed, the dim sum selection, lambs liver, char grilled swordfish with parsnip crisps, and pork belly.
I always order the pigeon, and it’s always good; the seaweed was crispy and very popular, and the fish dishes went down well. The pork belly (in plum sauce) was perhaps the least popular, with the liver being hit-and-miss: some bits were over-cooked, others – for me at least – just right. It was a varied, and filling selection but, I think, the right choice to make when filling 5 hungry mouths on a cold winter evening!