{"id":14632,"date":"2011-02-28T19:24:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T19:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=14632"},"modified":"2021-11-01T22:48:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T22:48:16","slug":"kitchen-w8-a-perfectly-pleasant-sunday-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=14632","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen W8 &#8211; a perfectly pleasant Sunday Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Kitchen W8\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kitchenw8.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kitchen W8<\/a> is Phillip Howards restaurant in Kensington, it was recently awarded a Michelin star.<\/p>\n<p>Phillip Howard is <a title=\"Nigel Platts-Martin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.caterersearch.com\/Articles\/2006\/09\/22\/308914\/Nigel-Platts-Martin.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigel Platts-Martins<\/a> partner at <a title=\"The Square\" href=\"..\/..\/?p=4967\" target=\"_self\">The Square<\/a>, so my expectations were high.<\/p>\n<div 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width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/tn_IMGP3004-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/tn_IMGP3005.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/tn_IMGP3005-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/tn_IMGP3006.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/tn_IMGP3006-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I have to admit it did not have the WOW factor of <a title=\"The Ledbury\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=13066\" target=\"_self\">The Ledbury<\/a> or <a title=\"The Square\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=4967\" target=\"_self\">The Square<\/a> or even <a title=\"Chez Bruce\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=13919 \" target=\"_self\">Chez Bruce<\/a>, but it was a very pleasant way to spend a Sunday lunch time.\u00a0 The set Sunday lunch at\u00a0 \u00a325 a head\u00a0 is not particularly adventurous, but what they do, they do well. My Whitebait starter had maybe a bit too much batter for some tastes, but was fresh, tasty and not in the least bit greasy. The potted pork rillette was a bit ordinary but fine for a set lunch. The mains were well received. The mash served with my well cooked haddock was particularly good.<\/p>\n<p>The Bitter chocolate pudding\u00a0 matched with <a title=\"About PX - TastIng Notes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jancisrobinson.com\/articles\/a20080927.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PX sherry<\/a> was a triumph (I should have photographed the empty plates!)<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it was a perfectly pleasant way to spend a Sunday lunch time.<\/p>\n<p>They were also pushing an excellent BYOB deal (no corkage fee on a Sunday evening), something that I do hope more and more fine dining restaurants take up, see <a title=\"Guardian artical - BYOB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2010\/jun\/20\/top-restaurants-embrace-byob-revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian article<\/a> covering this trend.<\/p>\n<p>Marks out of 10<\/p>\n<p>Food 6<\/p>\n<p>Service 6.3<\/p>\n<p>Ambience 6<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Top page - Noexpert.co.uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\">Return to top page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kitchen W8 is Phillip Howards restaurant in Kensington, it was recently awarded a Michelin star. Phillip Howard is Nigel Platts-Martins partner at The Square, so my expectations were high. I have to admit it did not have the WOW factor of The Ledbury or The Square or even Chez Bruce, but it was a very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=14632\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kitchen W8 &#8211; a perfectly pleasant Sunday Lunch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,7,8],"tags":[462,501,483,502,432,231],"class_list":["post-14632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-michelin-star","category-london","category-uk","tag-chez-bruce","tag-kitchen-w8","tag-nigel-platts-martin","tag-phillip-howard","tag-the-ledbury","tag-the-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14632"}],"version-history":[{"count":75,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30087,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14632\/revisions\/30087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}