#blahvsfood goes to Ikoyi, London.. by far the best restaurant in the UK
Ikoyi is undoubtedly the best restaurant in the UK. The question is whether it deserves a higher spot in the world’s top 100 than number 15. Because this is the best meal I’ve eaten in Europe in half a decade or more. A meal of such singular originality and brilliance, that it is impossible to try and describe it or critique it in a manner that is accurate and does it justice. Native breed beef , Damson and pigeon gravy You keep reading that Ikoyi is African inspired. It’s not. Yes there is a jump off point that is African in origin, but it’s just a reference point, rather than a point of origin. I feel that if you needed to locate the food within a geography, then it would be in the multiculturalism of London. But to try and create a spatial boundary for the food of Ikoyi is reductive and reflects the diner’s lack of imagination. The produce may largely be British, but the spices, the references, traverse the world from Ikoyi in Nigeria to Tokyo, from Algeria to places t...
