Etta's Seafood Kitchen

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9 Market Row, SW9 8LB 020 8127 5107 casamorita.com CASA SIBILLA Italian Highly rated food combined with mixed over-all reports Another small, cosy place that serves up authentic Italian home-made dishes with fresh, locally (and carefully) sourced prod

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Well publicised places like Brixton Cornercopia, Honest Burgers, Mama Lans, Elephant, KaoSarn, Federation Coffee and French and Grace are crammed in with others like Etta’s Seafood Kitchen, the Agile Rabbit and many more that I’ve noticed, but never noted, whilst wandering round.

I won’t name bore further, but suffice to say pretty much every place appeared to share the characteristics of their cousins from the Brixton Village arcade: small; resourceful; enterprising; simple by necessity; great value; and charming.

It has a very small and limited kitchen that serves supper club style set menus in the evenings, with lunch options derived from the ingredients used in those menus and often highlighting the produce from the deli below.

But this allows Nick to pick and choose a small number of top quality, seasonal ingredients for his menu on a weekly basis, tinkering and adding on a daily basis to make sure everything works.

So, jeez, there’s another place to add to the list of places to choose from in the arcades of Brixton Market.

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Gone are the gizzards, and in their place fancy tea shops, organic pizzas, stylish T-shirt vendors, scrumptious punters.

The fritters themselves were amusing, since I cannot envisage a lower ratio of crab meat to batter, but only the most uptight, looking-for-insult diner would ever mind, since the batter was nicer than almost anything you could ever taste.

The colour was similar-ish, with a bit more yellow in it – the major spices were cumin and coriander – but there was a whole chorus going on underneath that: some paprika, certainly, maybe more cayenne.

It was hotter than the soup, and the fish centrepieces a bit more varied – some squid as well, more prawns, a mussel or two – but the amazing bit was the depth and interest.

For a heartier dinner opt for beef wellington with garlic-sautéed potatoes (£16) This über-modern brick, steel and glass structure, formerly an old tool shed, serves good-value dishes like pan-fried rabbit stuffed with pancetta, with a creamy apple and cider sauce and any two side orders (£16)

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My friend D started with a crab salad (£12.50), which was also a bit characterless: well, that's unfair, it tasted of crab, but with the accent on the white meat.

It came with the marrow, which was delicious, a heap of polenta, and a pepper sauce, in which the flavours and the cream hadn't cooked into one another enough, which left it a bit too creamy.

Since that polenta was instead of anything related to a potato, it was already, in my view, too much polenta (you have to really love it to prefer it to mash or chips, with a steak).

It's become a requirement in a certain sort of restaurant that desserts will only cut it if they need four people to put them together and the whole palaver is as much hassle as getting a cast-iron bath out of a fifth-floor flat.

D had a chestnut creation (£6.50), with a chestnut cream, some ice cream and bits of marron glacé.

Restaurant review: Brixton Village | Life and style | The Guardian

A few months back I reviewed Kaosarn, a stonking Thai restaurant in an old covered market a short walk from my home in Brixton, south London.

It speaks volumes for Brixton Village that it would be impossible for me to write about everything there, but some ventures demand to be mentioned and Honest Burgers, part of a recent revolution in London burger quality, is one of them.

The newest arrival in Brixton Village is Mama Lan's (Unit 18), a tiny space which grew out of a British-Chinese gal's supper club and blog.

If eating the entire menu at Mama Lan's hasn't filled you up, go round the corner to Elephant (Unit 55), a tiny Pakistani street-food café serving vivid, turmeric-bright chicken curries at £6 a plate, with soft, buttered breads.

Around the corner from there is the Brixton Village Grill (Unit 44), a dark-painted, substantial-looking Portuguese piri-piri house serving salt-grilled sardines, spicy chicken wings and hunks of flame-grilled leg and breast for £8.50.

Restaurant review: The Heliot, London WC2 | Life and style | The ...

The Hippodrome casino, London WC2 (020 7769 8844) Meal for two, including wine and service: £120 The Heliot, the restaurant located on the balcony of London's Hippodrome casino, is named after a lion tamer called Claire Heliot who used to perform there in the 1900s, when it was a theatre, with a dozen big cats.

There are mains and grills and classics and salads; there are steaks and kebabs, burgers and fancy things that make you frown.

That's the sort of thing you expect from a restaurant named after a lion tamer.

The same is true of their (very salty) salt and pepper squid with unnecessary splodges of smoked haddock brandade.

A main course of "mandarin roasted" sea bass with a cucumber salad and roasted rice was OK but in no way lived up to its billing.