article_snippet.sent: And Wine and wound Wine way past St Paul’s Cathedral, Hawksmoor Church, Brick Lane and Columbia Road, of flower-market fame.
article_snippet.sent: Our appetite for the mysterious sated, it's time to dine.
article_snippet.sent: Pictured is a crab starter .
article_snippet.sent: Feeding takes place in a space that’s almost other worldly, a grand high-ceilinged room containing huge Mount Olympus-style pillars, gigantic potted plants that only Hercules could lift and a central block brimming with cocktail-making juices, as one of side of the room functions as a bar.
article_snippet.sent: I savour a delicious crab starter with cucumber, grapefruit and blackberry jelly (£14) followed by a brilliantly executed beef fillet with potato cake, oxtail spring roll, stilton beignet, carrot and courgette puree (£29).
article_snippet.sent: Woodlands Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot from Australia complements
article_snippet.sent: A glass of 2006 Woodlands marvellously.