My boss had been promising to take the team out to lunch at St John, in Smithfield, since right around the time I started working there. The only problem was our resident vegetarian – the St John doesn’t really cater for those who aren’t fans of eating dead creatures. In desperation to go, I even looked up the menu, but couldn’t find a veggie main course.
Then she went off to India for a couple of weeks, so we took advantage of her absence and had a really great lunch at the St John back in November.
For starters, we got some oysters, mussels and bone marrow – one of the restaurant’s signature dishes. I love bone marrow – it reminds me of my granny and of being young and of WB Yeats, all nice things really. I hadn’t had bone marrow since I was a teenager but it didn’t disappoint – the wet salt and capers and the marrow were amazing together.
Beef marrow at St John
For mains, I had the rabbit, which was good, but not as excellent as the starter.
Rabbit at St John
One of my colleagues had lamb, another some fish and another beef. All round a carnivore’s dream.
Lamb shanks at St John
