Spinach
A new year, a new you.
Or so goes the constant advertisement bombardment trying to tempt you to try something new, different and potentially costly.
My resolution was a little less ambitious than getting that beach body ready, that slicked back hair just right, the teeth gleaning in the dark. It was to eat a bit more green. I was pressured into this as I will soon have to set a role model from my progeny. Once they are able to move, milk, milk and more milk might be a bit much for them. So I will be brave and push my limits, against the background of the traumatic broccoli fiend stalking my dreams. Don’t want the same for my offspring.
Sweetcorn Fritters served with crushed avocado, tzatziki and tomato salsa with bacon. You may astutely note that this isn’t really devoid of meat based products. As there is a piece of bacon here. Three piggies went to market… In any case, the salad was light with a light vinegar dressing, the fritters delightfully oiled filed and the avocado a healthy sop placed given the bacon piled on top. As for how it tasted, it tasted more of bacon than anything else. All together, it was a gentle introduction to a more plant based diet. Although my stomach did cry out for more meat please.
Latte. Here I hoped for a redeeming taste. Like I imagine the world for an optimistic baby must be, life must be disappointing as all those vivid things that look like they are good to lick, more often than not turn out to be something that it was no advisable to taste. Here, I would join them. The sadness of this coffee was that I had had better straight out of the office coffee machine. It lacked much of any coffee taste and instead was overpowered by the milk. If I was going for a baby chino maybe this would have been better and I know this is a latte but you can take it too far sometimes.
However, this place does have at least one redeeming note. As if naming your restaurant after a random plant is the way to bring in the undiscerning punters, it is working. For someone who is as picky as me, who is becoming even more so now that my meals out have been sadly curtailed by circumstance, Spinach was decent but not somewhere that I would hurry back to visit. As the one purely vegetarian dish I had (latte) was underwhelming and the meat dish was decent but nothing to write home about. Then again, you could do worse in the new year.
A quiet eating 7/10.
Lunch (a main and a coffee) was GBP18 per person excluding other drinks and service.
161 Lordship Lane
London SE22 8HX