Shotgun London

Brigade Blog Ratings :

Food : ★★

Ambience : ★★★

Service : ★★★

Price : £ £ £

Reviewed : December 2015

Brigade Blog Soundbite

"Well intentioned but equally well wide of the mark."

Oh how I wanted to love Shotgur. In full disclosure the head chef and brigade leader Brad McDonald is a friend of a friend. So what follows will sting a bit.

When did we all fall in love with BBQ cooking ? Why did we ? How long will it last I wonder ? Well for me I think its over before it really began.

Yes Shotgun is better than most of its BBQ contempararies but that's like saying Pinot Grigio is better than Lambrusco. At the end of the day there's no glory in that. We started with pigs ear with sour Panckaes which was an interesting dish. Texturally inqusitive but ultmately a pigs ear in a warm lime blanket. The beef brisket was good and the BBQ goose has potential but how may times a year do you really need to eat goose. Bottom line when a tasting menu reads pigs ear, duck, beef brisket, goose, kid goat I fall into a meat coma just thinking back about it. The sides that accompanied were ordinary at best. We sat at the chefs table and the highlight of my afternoon was watching Brad butcher an entire piglet nose to tail (see photo). He worked the beast with the skill and touch of a expensive Califonian cosmetic surgeon, but then again how many cosmetic surgeons do you know with a Michelin Star.?

#Londoin #BBQ