Restaurants: Sabor, London
Back in the saddle, a post-lockdown restaurant experience. Last Tuesday I lunched at Sabor in Heddon Street, just off lower Regent Street in Central London. For now, they’ve taken over the outdoor space with some appropriately distanced tables and are offering a brief but interesting selection of tapas, with a trimmed-down wine list, which they have dubbed Sabor al Fresco.
Normally, Sabor has two areas – the walk-in ‘Counter’ and the reservation upstairs area called ‘Asador’. These will open after the Sabor al Fresco runs its five-week summer course.
We began with a beer, then a glass of the La Ina Fino from Lustau with some perfect ham croquetas.
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The next dish was a little more adventurous, and was quite amazing.
Black rice (pictured top) was the menu item of the day, though: stunning, intense, textural and with so much garlic. We followed this up with some small hamburgers. Really impressed with the food here. Service was assured and friendly.
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The winelist could do with some work. It’s a little unimaginative, and very short, although this could be because of the constraints of lockdown. There was one wine that caught my eye, though – the 2017 Terroir Historic bottling from Terroir al Limit. It was pretty good – it’s a semi-carbonic maceration white from Garnacha Blanca and Macabeu, with lovely texture and detail.