The Butcher’s Block, Malmaison Hotel official site 18-21 Charterhouse Sq EC1M 6AH 020 70123700 Three courses £45 pp , wine flight three glasses £30 pp (ave) I get all sorts of food emails these days. Most of the time it’s promotional stuff, sometimes it’s a fellow foodie (or two) though the best one was when Guinness sent me a six pack of the black stuff (free beer in the mail, man!). When I received this invitation, I was more than happy to trot along to the Malmaison Hotel in Farringdon and dine at their private dining room called the butcher’s block. Now, I’m a West London kind of guy and trekking to Barbican/Farringdon is like a mini vacation altogether for me, that’s another way of saying I got lost at Smithfield market, marvelled at the four storey John Torode establishment before meandering into an alleyway that finally led to the hotel. This private dining room is located within the hotel restaurant ( called ‘The Brasserie’.. oh, so many names..) and is a rather cosy brick laden bunker with a kind of hanging steel chains and tinted glass of an entrance. Six can sit and the room is free to hire out
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