Jamie Oliver is one of the Gods of the kitchen and that is no understatement. He may not be as fancy dancy as Gordon Ramsey or Heston Blumenthal but has been spot lighted as the natural chef. Even though he never seems to wash his hands, his cooking is oh so heavenly delicious and not to mention healthy.
Out of his 3 restaurants in London, I have only tried two. Those being Fifteen at Old Street and Jamie's Italian at London's "mega store" Westfield. After visiting Barbecoa, 3/3 will be completed but Barbecoa will just have to wait.
Jamie's Italian at Westfield is sort of hidden all the way at the back of the mall. You would think no one would bother going all the way there but haha nooo, the place is always packed and thats probably only because the place is under the name of Sir Jamie Oliver. Amazing how much a famous name will do to a place huh. Guess thats what branding does.
Anyhow, Jamie's Italian definitely lives up to its reputation in regard to the standard of food for even though the menu is limited, each and every dish is worth every penny. However, having been there for lunch and dinner on different occasions, I would have to say that the dinner service is much better than the lunch. Simply because during lunchtime, they seem to be rushing everything from throwing out the dishes and swiping pass the tables with waiters butts. Dinnertime has a much calmer ambience hence the food follows suit resulting in a felt 'perfecto' meal.
Acclaimed to be the 'best' chilled olives with homemade sauce and homemade crackers. I refuse to eat olives so no comment on the olives but everyone at the table said that they were of good quality however as everyone does, the seeds never won favour. Poor seeds.
Baked mushroom with herbs. Extremely light appetizer with organic mushrooms. Favourite part was the crunchy pastry which is delightful when you pick it off from the side of the bowl.
Platter of different ham, olives, cheese and seasoned carrots. Fave was the sweet cheese with sweet chili marmalade on crackers, sounds weird but oh so tasty!
Close up :D
Main of lamb with mash potato. Very tender and juicy, dripped sauce complimented the meat well.
'Posh' chips for they have been oven baked with truffle oil and parma cheese. OOh so rich yet amazingly enough they tasted OHHH so healthy.
Honestly, I do not recall what this was but I have a feeling my mum ordered it for they look like healthy vegetables.
Carbonara was of traditional recipe where the yolk of eggs are only used instead of adding cream sauce. Personal preference would be that they use a different type of pasta because I hate udon noodles.
Truffle pasta-simply BRILLIANT. It looks so light but it taste is so satisfying, it kind of confuses you. Don't worry, its a good thing.
Tomato baked scallops. The french don't do it well but here at Jamie's they do. Scallops are juicy, the seasoning comes through perfectly and after 4 scallops, you will be screaming for more.
I'm surprising myself but I can't seem to find my dessert photos at all but once again, their dessert menu is limited to a few cakes and ice cream flavours. The tiramisu is highly recommended for that I can gob down anyday at anytime. The honeycomb ice cream is pretty good for home made ice cream too however the sweet chili chocolate flavour is just weird. But then again, people here in London like weird stuff so hey, why not.
Jamie's Italian is the place for a light lunch/dinner with the usual groupie of friends just because it has a weird relaxed atmosphere where you would just want to sit there for ages and ages-provided that the sun is out of course.
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