{"id":934,"date":"2019-11-28T23:14:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T23:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eatandwanderlust.com\/?p=934"},"modified":"2020-01-08T04:13:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T04:13:18","slug":"st-john-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eatandwanderlust.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/28\/st-john-london\/","title":{"rendered":"St John – London"},"content":{"rendered":"

St John is revolutionary in the sense of it’s simplicity. Nose to tail cooking of great British classics.<\/p>\n

I have been visiting the restaurant for at least last 8 years. My first experience being an entire suckling pig.<\/p>\n

Extremely seasonal: when it was gull season we had to visit the restaurant twice that week for the delectable gull eggs.<\/p>\n

There bakery is also fabulous, their doughnuts are to die for. Make sure you order their baked to order madeleines! They take about 15 mins to be baked.<\/p>\n

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This dish started a trend. It put bone marrow back on the map. Very simply served with beautiful grey salt, toasted bread and a simple parsley salad.<\/p>\n

Calorically dense and incredibly decedent but I mostly always order the dish and then work out furiously the day after.<\/p>\n

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Skate wing in a butter sauce<\/p>\n

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A particularly pretty dish of eel<\/p>\n

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Foie and duck liver pate on excellent sour dough. Offset with sour and crunchy cornichons<\/p>\n

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Seasonality is king. Beautiful gull eggs.<\/p>\n

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Classic Welsh Rarebit. No rabbit inside but a spicy cheesy toast served with a splash of Worcestershire sauce<\/p>\n

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Kidneys are not everyone’s cup of tea but they are glorious when done well!<\/p>\n

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I was not aware that skates had cheeks, but I am glad they do because they are totally tasty treats. Served with ketchup, Yum!<\/p>\n

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Mallard with cabbage! The veg is cooked with the same care as the duck itself.<\/p>\n

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Keep it simple!<\/p>\n

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I admire pate makers, i’ve never had the patience. I would rather eat it at St John.<\/p>\n

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Toast with minced meat and dripping<\/p>\n

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Ox heart salad with watercress and beets.<\/p>\n

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Pickled Tripe salad<\/p>\n

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Duck eggs are so rich<\/p>\n

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Sweetbreads and bacon<\/p>\n

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Clams and bacon<\/p>\n

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Livers and swede<\/p>\n

Just do yourself a favour. Next time you are in London, just go. There are a couple of locations and they are all good.<\/p>\n

Just go.<\/p>\n

David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

St John is revolutionary in the sense of it’s simplicity. Nose to tail cooking of great British classics. View our 8 years of visiting this fantastic restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[217,66],"tags":[218,221,195,219,220],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london","category-restaurants","tag-london","tag-offal","tag-restaurants","tag-stjohn","tag-unitedkingdom"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eatandwanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/img_9633.jpg?fit=3024%2C4032&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatandwanderlust.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatandwanderlust.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatandwanderlust.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatandwanderlust.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatandwanderlust.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eatandwanderlust.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014,"href":"https:\/\/eatandwanderlust.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/1014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatandwanderlust.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatandwanderlust.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatandwanderlust.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatandwanderlust.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}