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There are places where paying for a meal is a pleasure. Prawn on the Lawn is one of them. What an experience. A small, busy place full of character and where booking in advance is not recommended, I would say mandatory. The waitress was as polite, friendly and nice as I have ever seen, making you feel you were at a friend's place meeting hia/her missus for the first time. For me it is very important that first contact wih the Customer, as you define the "rules of engagement" and 1st impression is key.
Now the food. The Prawn on the lawn dish is an exquisite starter, a combination of avocado, prawn, dill an other herbs that left my girlfriend and I stunned and speechless. In the back of my brain I was going "so this is how its going to be...". And it was. We follwoed up with the scallops and thai marinate and it was, for me, the best. The sauce is rich and savoury, the scallops were beautifully cooked and the presentation was very simple, on the shell, almost as a statement: "we'll let the ingredients and cooking skills speak for themselves". We were in our foos heaven when we get the seafood stew, and it's just another nail to the coffin. Back in Porrugal we eat loads of sea food, and the good folks at PotL do clams, prawns, coquels and so on, a great service and honor them. For dessert we had the salted caramel and raspberry pudding/crumble (?). It's strong and sweet, with a pungent raspberry flavour, which sealed the meal perfectly, although i wouks have prefered to have more scallops for dessert (wifey scolded me for being greedy).
So summary: great food, friendliest service, nice margaritas and a bill that is not expensive for the beauty treatment you just got. Will be booking another table soon.
Sometimes you just have so much fun with a bunch of homies that the food takes the backstage. I came home after a night out with the “quartet of crazy bunchers” and while I was still 80% sober, I don’t remember much about Prawn on the Lawn. Since then, I’ve asked the other members of the dinner party what they remember from PotL (apart from the awesome name) but all of us agree that it was “delicious” but with few other recommendations. At least I’m pretty sure we didn’t perform that many faux pas (luckily Grant saved his accidental “yelling at the waitstaff” moment for later*) and am *fairly* confident that we could go back for more delicious seafood!
Fresh seafood that tastes like it has jumped straight out of the sea is in the middle of London.Prawn on the Lawn in Islington is a restaurant i have passed many times on my way home. I have always mistaken this place as a fishmongers. The quality has looked great as well as the options, so when my colleague told me that her friend owns it, it gave me more reason to visit.
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