Pomegranates

Pomegranates is the sort of quirky, welcoming, cosy, club-like place that, once you discover it, makes you feel like you're one of London's insiders. The seventies decor is original, not retro, and features antique mirrors and paintings. But the focus is on the food. What's cooking? Pomegranates has a very reasonable claim to the best steak tartare in London from Aberdeen Angus beef, but the cosmopolitan menu also features West Indian curried goat, and Cantonese roast duck."But long before whipper-snapper chefs were giving us the benefit of their gap years, Gwynn-Jones was offering Turkish bureks with tabbouleh as well as Welsh salt duck with onion sauce, snail and wild mushroom pie and West indian goat curry. He pioneered the marinated salmon known as gravadlax and thus inspired a million dinner-party first courses. - © Evening Standard/Metrolife 2004 / Fay Machsler" - Critic reviewAverage price - £25 to £34Pimlico Wine Vaults, Plumbers Arms