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Description: Handily located five minutes walk from Euston, a brightly-lit new hotel dining room (with its own entrance), where an ex-Zafferano chef cooks up a satisfying Anglo-Italian menu.
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Phone: 020 7693 5425
Website: http://www.ambassadors.co.uk/numbertwelve/index.html
Open: Open lunch Mon-Fri noon-2.45pm. Dinner Monday-Saturday 5.30-10.15pm
Dress code: Smart Casual
Good for: Good food, Ambience.
Payment options: All major cards accepted
Straight to No 1: the stylish Number Twelve
"Where?" shrieked my very chic west London-based friend, when I told her we were going for dinner opposite Euston station. "It's going to be a very cool area soon," I assured her, blabbing on about the regeneration of King's Cross, eventually persuading her there might be a good reason to schlep across town.
In fact, Number Twelve proved to be a very good reason indeed. This new restaurant is housed in the once faded and suddenly very contemporary Ambassadors Hotel in Bloomsbury. The food is modern Italian, with quality, well-sourced ingredients.
The set menu, £17.95 for three courses, is excellent value, but we went for the a la carte. I had melt-in-the-mouth salt-crusted seared tuna with a sweet fennel salad and roasted cherry tomatoes (£5.95).
My pal chose a very pretty steak tartare, topped with a poached quail's egg (£6.95). My skate (filleted) came with hot mash, pak choi, capers, tomatoes and olives (£13.95), while my friend's salt marsh lamb, served with samphire grass (£15.95) was, she declared, divine. An Italian rosè (Scalabrone Rosato di Bolgheri, £26.50) recommended by the waiter proved a wonderful accompaniment. The sorbet dessert (£5) included an incredible Valrhona chocolate variation - almost like a frozen mousse - and a superb selection of ewe's cheese from La Fromagerie (£8.95), always a sign of a classy joint.
The bill was the right kind of surprise: at under £100 for what we agreed was the best meal we'd had in ages, it's a good idea to get there quick - before the whole of west London traipses in.
Details are correct at the time of publication - please check with venue before booking.
