Fernandez & Leluu: Unearthed and Action Against Hunger

Flamenquines

Eating to help people starving around the world may seem like a bit of an odd thing to do. But there’s nothing that concentrates your mind on what people don’t have, than a well said word or two in your ear about hunger while you’re salivating over a plate of fabulous food.

And it’s not often you can eat for a good cause. So when the chance came to join a dinner at Fernandez & Leluu’s supper club in aid of Action Against Hunger, I grabbed it. Throw in produce sourced from around Europe by Unearthed, and you’ve got the recipe for a fine evening indeed.  Continue reading

Fernandez and Leluu: a supper club supreme

Mix and match at Fernandez and Leluu

The whole table erupted with laughter and I, a little tipsily, reached for the bottle of wine and found, to no-one’s surprise, that it was empty. I was still reeling a little from the concentrated aromatic hit of Pho (who knew that broth could be that good).

As I leaned back in my chair, my eyes blearily roaming the table for another bottle, more food was brought out – great plates of shiny sleek fresh tuna and bowls that, by their salty fried aroma were full of chips. Greedy Diva, Slow Food Kitchen, Vintage Macaroon and I all looked at one another sharing a moment of foodie appreciation before someone said something and we all burst out laughing again. Continue reading

Jim Haynes at Fernandez & Leluu

Prawns, spring and summer rolls, terrine and salad

If someone had said ‘supper club’ to me five years ago, I’d have thought of young Cameron-a-like students gathering to scoff cheese and quaff claret in their tailored tuxedoes. Now the picture is of a secretive and romantic world of gastronomic (and glutinous) adventurers gathering at secret locations to indulge their semi-illicit gustatory desires.

And so it was with a little frisson of excitement that I wandered down a quiet London backstreet looking for the nondescript entrance to Fernandez & Leluu, one of the foodie destinations of the moment. Continue reading