On Wednesday evening I met my friends Emily and Mat after work at about 6.30pm. Having known each other since our early teens we actually reflected that never thought we'd do something as grown up as meeting for "after work drinks and dinner". Reminiscing aside, this is another place that you can't book so I would actually advise going after work, and as early as possible (I arrived a sweaty mess about half an hour late but hey the intention was there!). We waited for around 45 mins but it wasn't too unpleasant thanks to some reasonably priced gin based cocktails. The atmosphere was also really good but this was probably enhanced by aforementioned cocktails.
Shortly after we were shown to our table where they served us POPCORN in little mugs to go with our drinks- at this point I was sold already before even ordering. I am obsessed with popcorn in all of it's forms.
And my dinner dates.. Don't they look fun?!
We all went for the steak and ordered an assortment of sides; spinach, two portions of chips, and the roast aubergine. We then got one of every sauce AND the "special sauce" (does that remind anyone else of Superbad!?) which the waitress informed us about probably after realising it would be an easy sell. It arrived promptly and my my, what a feast...
Everything was delicious but of the sides what really stole the show was a dark horse- the roast aubergine. It was incredible and something I am going to try to make (and likely butcher) at home. For anyone really interested, the sauces ranked as followed; 1. Special sauce (some kind of garlicy awesome creation although the waitress wouldn't tell us what it actually was- so "secret"), 2. Fred's sauce (cue jokes about how I would like it), 3. Peppercorn, joint 4. Bearnaise and Horseradish. If I'm honest, the last 3 were all really good versions of what you would expect, but no surprises.
Now onto the main event, the steak...
Sliced really thinly and served with a novelty knife, this steak was goooood. It was cooked nice and rare and was exceptionally tender. Portion size was fair if not massive but for a tenner I wasn't complaining. Now it wasn't the best steak I've ever had (Namibia 2013 I'll never forget it) but it was very good and exceptional value, washed down nicely with a few glasses of red. It was after a few glasses of said red that we all decided it would be an excellent idea to sign up to the London Triathlon.... but thats another story.
Last but by no means least, desert. I am adamant that I am not a desert person at all and wasn't even interested in looking at the menu but luckily Mat persisted, and we ordered a portion of the only desert available- caramel and chocolate mousse served with salt. Now hear me out, this doesn't sound great but ohmygosh... it was incredible. So much so that I did a totally 180 from not wanting desert to pretty much scoffing the whole thing...
I was literally sprinkling the salt on as if it was going out of fashion and it just kept getting better and better! Highly recommended and only 2.5-.... man I'm salivating just thinking about it.
All in all, Flat Iron was excellent and comes highly recommended. I would 100% go again and had a great evening- delicious food, good atmosphere and amazing company. Now I guess i'd better go and buy a wetsuit...
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