Kiln
58 Brewster Street
London W1F 9TL
United Kingdom
The dishes
Gai Yang with Smoked Chili
Ox Tongue with Carosello Cucumber
Grilled Rump Cap with Ubon Relish
Radish, Beetroot and Daikon Salad
Flourish Plums and Freshwater Fish Sauce
Pad Ta Krai of Gray Mullet
Pounded Barbecue Beef with Miyagawa
Slow Grilled John Dory
Grilled bavette with Smoked Chili Glaze
There is lots to like, but unfortunately also lots to dislike, about Kiln, one of London’s hottest eateries and always packed to the rafters. Rated by many easy to please foodie writers as one of the city’s best new restaurants (I have even seen it included in lists of the city’s top 30 restaurants or so), the food is undoubtedly good and the best thing about the restaurant; service is also very friendly, another big plus. If that’s all there was to saying a restaurant is swell and great, then Kiln really is the second coming of Archestrate, the Trigabolo of Argenta, of Palio or any other great restaurant of the past you can think of. But Kiln’s dining space interior and the wine list are quite another matter, and not everybody lives in a vacuum where all that matters is posting on Instagram how cool you and everybody else are just because you go to places that everybody (rightly or wrongly) thinks are hip and raves about.
