Tom Aikens

As usual Tom Aikens did not disappoint, still the best value in London.

The £23 for two courses is great and you can skip desert as long as you have a coffee you'll get great petit fours, yummy.

Tom Aikens was a culinary delight. The salmon with sorrel and lemon grass was exquisite - probably one of the best fish dishes I have ever eaten. The pollock was cooked to perfection. I have never experienced such different combinations of taste in so many dishes. They all worked beautifully. I wasn't so keen on the dessert of rhubarb (which was too hard) with a covering of aspic/jelly and mint. Small quibble, the £17 house wine was not available, cheapest was £30. Petit fours were huge..

Tom Aiken's fish menu must be the best value dinner in town! Canapes, mackerel tartare, salmon and sorrel, red mullet and pistachio risotto, white chocolate and truffled ice cream and the coffee and petits fours were all unreservedly excellent, the first and last courses being exceptional. The breads, too, impressed in taste and texture. There was no reduction in the quality of all the ingredients or the precision of the cooking for the promotion. Service was attentive but unobtrusive.