APICIUS
Description
The intimate shop front restaurant has been given a simple, modern makeover, while the menu follows a classic French blueprint "refined but not over fussy in style" with dishes ranging from smoked duck breast with foie gras veloute & confit leg ballottine to pan-fried fillet of turbot with baby leeks, salt-roasted potatoes & rocket pesto. A delicate juxtaposition of texture & taste was displayed in a ballotine of guinea fowl & pheasant with celeriac remoulade & Cumberland sauce. Equally accomplished, a main course of boneless osso bucco had gutsy flavour & was accompanied by perfect mashed potato, although the deep-fried marrow sounded an off note. The undisputed star of the meal, however, was an iced hazelnut mousse of rich, silky texture & intense nutty flavour.

This is quality cooking at credit card-friendly with wine prices to match. An impressive place with attentive, unhurried service "that would give almost all of the bigger & more expensive London restaurants a run for their money".

Address:
23 Stone Street, Cranbrook, TN17 3HE
Tel: +44 (0)1580 714666
E-mail: N/A
Cuisine(s): Modern European
Opening Times:
Tues & Sat: 19:00 - 21:00
Wed - Fri: 12:00 - 14:00 18:45 - 21:00
Sun: 12:00 - 14:00

Avg Price: £38.00

Seven well-spaced, linen-covered tables. Salted and unsalted unpasteurised butter on a rectangle of polished slate. A choice of handmade wholemeal, onion or white bread rolls, warm from the oven. New season's asparagus, foie gras, ceps and morels on the menu; premier cru chablis, Chassagne-Montrachet and Chteauneuf-du-Pape on the wine list.

Your meal cooked by the former private chef to Paul Getty Jr and served on expensive crockery.