When Match invited me to join them at their Aphrodisiac Café in
Soho Square, I could not resist and trotted across town to see what it was all
about! A little pop up restaurant
selling combinations of food that they - with the help of Michelin-starred
chef, Pascal Aussignac - had identified as being good for the libido.
The menu
swerved from asparagus to duck egg (with frosted beer) to Flamed Oysters and
Chocolate Truffle and Armagnac. I
started with black crisp and aioli which was dried tapioca with squid ink
aioli. Now I don’t eat tapioca – lets just
say I don’t like the look of it – but dried and crispy it was like rather weird
crisp bread. Not something, I would sign
up for again but the aioli was a revelation – something about the squid ink
made it just so very morish.
Then my Cured
beef onglet, mulled wine and pomegranate arrive with my pomegranate appletiser (very
nice btw) appeared. What a revelation,
the cured onglet was soft and meaty with a hint of Christmas due to the mulled
wine drizzle and the pomegranate seeds gave it that crunch. Glorious and about to be recreated in a house
near me.
I skipped dessert and
wandered back to the office – if not in a haze of desire, at least having
enjoyed a tasty meal!
Yum – and Match does a
regular aphrodisiac events so I may well check one of these out - www.match.com/events
L xx
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