French
40 Chalcot Road, London NW1 8LS
Latest critic review: January 16, 2009
French dining in North London
Everyone in London - including restaurant critics - wants the perfect neighbourhood bistro to open up just around the corner from where they live. So it's with a degree of pea-green jealousy that reviewers rated this Primrose Hill French as a great example of a rare local gem.
Critic Reviews
Dos Hermanos Dos Hermanos
Reviewed on January 16, 2009
"L’Absinthe is a neighbourhood joint that goes about its business in its own pleasing way and satisfies accordingly." READ REVIEW
"My wife and I went for the rabbit casserole with mustard mash, and this superbly tender, delicate meat came in a great, gutsy sauce." READ REVIEW
Marina O’Loughlin Metro
Reviewed on May 06, 2008
"But new owner Jean-Christophe Slowik has a palpable hit on his hands... is it the new menu, an unrepentantly unreconstructed bistro number bristling with crowdpleasers such as onion soup and tarte tatin?" READ REVIEW
"Richard & Peter" Harden's
Reviewed by March 27, 2008
"What are you looking for in a restaurant? Glamour, excitement, novelty? This is not the place for you. If, on the the other hand, your idea of perfection in a no-nonsense Gallic bistro, you won’t do much better than this Primrose Hill newcomer." READ REVIEW
"If the restaurant enjoys the success it deserves, and remains ungreedy enough not to start kicking diners out to accommodate a second sitting, it will become that mythic beast: the neighbourhood restaurant you’d love to find opening up on a street corner near you." READ REVIEW
Fay Maschler Evening Standard
Reviewed on February 13, 2008
"Jean-Christophe Slowik may have worked in London for a long time, but good French habits, including taking pleasure in nourishing others, have not been forgotten." READ REVIEW
Terry Durack Independent
Reviewed on February 03, 2008
"So it's not actually full of clichés after all, because this sort of exceptional value for good produce, skilled cooking and warm service is not, sadly, something with which we are overly familiar." READ REVIEW
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