Comments on: Review | 28º-50º Wine Workshop and Kitchen

By: jamesramsden

jamesramsden — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:21:29 +0000

In reply to Ollie.

No, nor would I – but somehow you go there and it just feels a little out of the way. Or p’raps that’s just me. It might also be the fact that you have to duck down into the basement. Anyhoo, ’twas all good.

He does indeed. J

By: Ollie

Ollie — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:23:51 +0000

Menu sounds lovely. Daft name, though, as you almost say. And I agree with Fiona – I wouldn’t call Fetter Lane the middle of nowhere. Doesn’t Agnar Sverrisson have something to do with this place?

By: jamesramsden

jamesramsden — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:37:29 +0000

In reply to Alex. In their defence the leaves were good, but it was just stingy and underdressed. But on the whole you're absolutely right. Amazing how few places do a decent salad. J

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:30:06 +0000

I do not understand the near universal inability of restaurants to do a decent side salad. The cost is near negligable so it may as well be something of seasonal beauty.

By: jamesramsden

jamesramsden — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:44:13 +0000

In reply to Fiona Beckett.

I first read that as ‘onglet with tripe’. Non merci. I’ll be back though.

Indeed it is, and it’s close to many things but felt a little sidelined, IMO, x

By: jamesramsden

jamesramsden — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:41:28 +0000

In reply to Hugh Wright.

A’right you sarky bastard, that is basically what it was. Less ‘fish stew’ and more ‘soup with fried mullet’. But it were d-lish. Really spectacular.

Could be the venue for our next din dins, though fewer fiery haired waitresses and Prince Willy lookalikes.

By: Hugh Wright

Hugh Wright — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:35:16 +0000

‘A piece of red mullet in a bouillabaisse’ eh? Whatever next? ‘A chicken thigh in a coq au vin’? ‘A lamb shoulder in a kleftiko’? Seems like rather silly dish-naming to me, although no less than I would expect from somewhere that calls itself a ‘Wine Workshop and Kitchen’. Nomenclature quibbles aside, it sounds decent enough and should vaut le visite from the more culinary-minded of the area’s legal eagle population.

As for cheesy conclusions, I’ll see yours and raise you this one: http://bit.ly/TPFP_Rvngtn

By: meemalee

meemalee — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:25:44 +0000

It’s next to my office :p

By: Fiona Beckett

Fiona Beckett — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:17:19 +0000

As it happens I’ve just finished having lunch in 28-50 and the winelist is indeed booya. Agree with you about the gazpacho but you missed a treat in a seriously good onglet with triple fried (I would guess) chips.

I don’t agree though that the restaurant is in the middle of nowhere. It’s just off Fleet Street which of course used to be the main watering hole of Britain’s best known hacks. A grand tradition revived