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August 30, 2016 by Fiona Maclean 1 Comment

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Last Updated on April 19, 2017 by Fiona Maclean

Lunch at The Savannah:

I know the area around Euston for one kind of food – Southern Indian.  Drummond Street has, for many years, been home to a row of excellent, mainly vegetarian Indian restaurants where you can dine out for less than £10.  An invitation to review The Savannah, a restaurant formed as part of The Wesley Hotel was intriguing.  Tagged as ‘London’s most ethical and eco-friendly bar and restaurant’ with food sourced from sustainable suppliers, I went along to find out more.

The Savannah Dining

The lunch menu is a curious mixture of fusion dishes.  Three starters, four main dishes, a good selection of side dishes and a mixture of desserts, ice-cream and sorbets are on offer.  My initial feeling was that there should be sharing platters of charcuterie or cheese to complement the rather brief selection of starters and perhaps a salad or two as an option for mains.

Prawn Tempura - the Savannah

For my own starter I picked the prawn tempura with spicy tomato fondue, shitake mushrooms and mango puree served on a banana leaf.  For my palate it was overly complicated and the prawn batter was rather heavy – closer to the kind you’d find on a prawn in a Chinese sweet and sour dish than a classic tempura.  Perhaps that was deliberate though?

Chicken and Duck Pastille - The Savannah

My companion’s chicken and duck pastille with quinoa salad and an orange dressing was altogether more successful.  A pastilla is a sweet or savoury Moroccan pastry, I suspect that is what was intended here – it was very similar to the pastilla dish I’d seen prepared at Momo a year or so earlier, that time with a pigeon filling.  She loved it.

Seabass en Papillote

For main she picked the Sea Bass in Papillote with bok choy, lemon grass, red chillies and baby corn.  Again, a winning dish, it appeared on the table wrapped up in its paper package and ready to eat.  It looked light and refreshing, a great summer lunch dish.

Seabass en Papillote the Savannah

My oven baked chicken breast came with a rich ragout of mushroom and prosciutto with baby carrots and red wine jus. A wonderfully comforting dish, I thoroughly enjoyed it, though it might not have been the best choice for a hot summer’s day.

Oven baked Chicken Breast - The Savannah

Dessert was the highlight of the meal for me.  I really enjoyed the ginger and almond pudding with vanilla ice cream.  In addition to the short selection of puddings there’s also a list of rather fabulous sounding ice creams and sorbets – lemon and red chilli or Mojito sorbet, olive oil or whisky ice cream and ‘the daily selection’.

Savannah - Ginger and Almond pudding

 

My companion enjoyed a picture perfect lemon basil panna cotta

Lemon Basil Pannacotta - The Savannah

 

My impression of the Savannah was that it would make a great place for a working lunch.  It’s a calm space with a reasonable choice of well-cooked food.  I did wonder a little about their claim to be  ethical and eco-friendly.  There’s nothing much on the menu about sourcing and I don’t recall being given any information from the friendly staff either.  And, if I am honest I suspect that serving this kind of fusion food is counter indicative to being eco-friendly.  There are a lot of air miles between here and Asia for example.  But that doesn’t mean it isn’t a fine place to enjoy lunch.  It just needs a little more explaining.
The Savannah Bar

The Savannah At The Wesley Hotel
81 – 103 Euston Street
London  NW1 2EZ
Tel: 020 7691 8588

www.thesavannah.co.uk

 

Filed Under: Kings Cross, Restaurant Tagged With: London restaurant

About Fiona Maclean

London based freelance writer and marketing consultant. I edit London-Unattached.com and write for a number of other publications. With a music degree and a background in marketing across many sectors, my passions include all types of music, food, restaurants, wine and travel

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  1. Helen Moulden says

    January 20, 2017 at 4:48 pm

    I’d love to eat here – that Prawn Tempura looks amazing!

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