Canvas & Cream

Canvas & Cream

Restaurant and Art Gallery in Forest Hill SE23

Canvas and Cream — Restaurant and Art Gallery in Forest Hill SE23

A BIG thank you to all our customers and staff for making us a Time Out Love London Winner!

Also a HUGE well done to Gavin for being named your favourite staff member!

http://www.canvasandcream.com

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Review analysis
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Canvas Restaurant & Market is a 278-seat, dinner-only restaurant and to-go market in the Laureate Park Village Center in the heart of Lake Nona.

From the "Small Plates" section of the menu, we started with the marinated burrata ($11) on watercress with grilled sourdough bread.

With wild mushrooms, tomato confit and house-made ricotta cheese in the mix, it was a showcase of balance and texture.

Point Reyes blue cheese, smoked Marcona almonds, heirloom cherry tomatoes, fried leeks and creamy red wine dressing enlivened the main-dish salad.

When: Restaurant 5-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 5-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 5-9 p.m. Sunday; bar 3 p.m.-close daily; market 9 a.m.-7 p.m. daily Wine by the glass: From $7

With Marisol inside the MCA, Jason Hammel paints a new canvas ...

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Marisol refers to the Parisian-born Venezuelan pop artist of the same name, known for her boxy figurative sculptures, hanging out with Warhol, and donating the museum's first piece of artwork.

I'm not sure exactly how the design honors her work, but the environs—vaulted ceilings and bright white walls featuring British artist Chris Ofili's plantlike line drawings and prominent mural of a cave-dwelling green sorceress—are engaging enough without being a distraction from Hammel and chef de cuisine Sarah Rinkavage's menu, which is pretty riveting in its own right.

Sweet, just barely cooked shrimp kissed with lardo and drizzled with brown butter and walnut-apple saba seems to channel a weirdly compelling union between sea life and apple pie.

A wobbly tower of Boston bibb lettuce and Granny Smith apples is pleasantly dilled with green goddess dressing inspired by a "natural food salad dressing" Marisol herself contributed to the 1977 Museum of Modern Art Artists' Cookbook.

Just a few cocktails—like the judiciously sweetened Sidney J, with sherry and tequila, or the Found in Photo, with Old Tom gin and the liqueur Byrrh Grand—play support to some 50 whites, oranges, and reds by the bottle, most in the $50 to $80 range, and almost 20 by the glass, among them options like an orange Sikile Terre Siciliane Grecanico Dorato with apricot notes or a relative heavyweight like a Ligurian Rossese di Dolceacqua.

Gratifying dishes steal the scene at Lake Nona's Canvas Restaurant ...

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As much as we wanted to check out Tavistock Restaurant Collection's newest concept – Canvas Restaurant & Market – the drive to Lake Nona was a consideration.

But the views through those floor-to-ceiling windows are unbeatable.

Subsequent courses also impressed: an extraordinarily moist burger ($14) fashioned from short rib and brisket sided with some of the best fries I've had in a long time; and a sublime wood-oven-roasted branzino ($25) stuffed with limes, lemons and herbs and served whole.

That said, a snappy green papaya salad had to be brushed off the fish before fully enjoying it, but enjoy it I did, right down to picking my teeth with a fishbone (gross, I know).

I'd say your restaurant is worth the drive, but that would sound too cliché, so I'll say this: Canvas Restaurant & Market, you paint a very pretty picture.

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