{"id":19316,"date":"2012-10-23T18:56:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T17:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=19316"},"modified":"2021-11-01T22:43:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T22:43:37","slug":"bob-bob-ricard-fantasy-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=19316","title":{"rendered":"Bob Bob Ricard – Fantasy Diner!"},"content":{"rendered":"

To the uninitiated a visit to Bob Bob Ricard<\/a> in Soho is a bit like walking into one of those Carlsberg adverts<\/a>, you know the ones about the Flat, the Hotel and the Bank.\u00a0 Well BBR is a Diner and if Carlsberg did Diners this would be it.<\/p>\n

It’s all booths.\u00a0But instead of the Chrome, Plastic and Formica you’d expect\u00a0its all\u00a0\u00a0Brass, Leather and Marble.\u00a0 The menu includes quite a bit of “Diner” type food and drink – Burgers, Ice Cream Sundaes, Milkshakes and Lemonade etc,\u00a0 along with some more extravagant items, like the selection of Caviar and the Beef Wellington with Truffle gravy.\u00a0 The impression we had was that BBR could have been the dream of a child of Soviet Russia imagining the glamour of an American Diner. It’s completely OTT, but in a good way (I have since discovered it’s actual design is based on an Edwardian Train – Time Out described the design as “working within a loose theme of Orient Express meets American diner”, which sounds about right to me).<\/p>\n