Jackson Boxer

CAMILLE

haven't been back in a minute as I'm spontaneous in my appetites, and it's always booked out, but an invitation to join friends there, and permission to order for the table, gave me the perfect opportunity to reacquaint myself with 's menu

look, I can admit a certain amount of admiration for a big operation on technical grounds - Hawksmoor, Devonshire, Zedel etc - all impressive logistical exercises in getting huge amounts of food in front of vast numbers of people with pretty reliable consistency

but my heart, my heart will only ever be drawn to small places, where talented people come together to make miracles out of tiny kitchens

a big menu for a little space, full of wit and inspiration, taking buccaneering risks with offal and offcuts, technically precise, aesthetically tight, and now bedded in and totally sure of itself

this is a great little restaurant, in my opinion the greatest kind of restaurant

bravo a toute la famille camille

-puffed pigs skin, smoked eel & tarragon
-carlingford oyster, lovage and verjus
-spring crudité nicoise
-calves brains, cafe de paris & anchovy
-sausage
-salad of peas
-snout cassoulet
-lamb sweetbreads, bacon & peas
-spring leaves & spenwood
-duroc chop, snail bordelaise
-trout, asparagus, smoked eel cream
-pommes frites
-burnt milk tart
-chocolate & hazelnut craquelin

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