Wellcome
Kitchen, Wellcome Collection, Euston Road, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
www.benugo.com/restaurants/wellcome-kitchen
www.benugo.com/restaurants/wellcome-kitchen
08/02/2015
She said: The cool Wellcome Collection has been undergoing a major renovation for a very long time now! But, finally they have joined the rank of museums with a ‘trendy’ waiter service restaurant. Wellcome Kitchen is located on the second floor and is a bright, modern, inviting dining room with a cool, cosy design. At the time we visited there were plans to convert the entrance to the restaurant into a cafĂ© space which will create a further buzz. The menu offers around four varied choices per course so I kicked off with a hake tempura which was surprisingly good. I was really looking forward to my buckwheat cauliflower risotto so was sorely disappointed when a rather tasteless, overcooked mush arrived. It wasn’t bad enough to send back and had that air of ‘it tastes this way because it’s good for you’ but not one to ever have again. I really wanted pudding (the chocolate cake) but he was full and wanted to move on so I’ll have to come back. Yes despite the risotto mush, Wellcome Kitchen really is lovely. The setting, the menu and I suspect when they are no longer in their first week of operation, the food make for a relaxing, sociable lunch in between viewing Henry Wellcome’s medical marvels. The 50% off bill was a super surprise (soft launch) but even the full menu prices are reasonable. A good, upmarket yet affordable addition to the polluted, traffic-ridden Euston Road.
She said: The cool Wellcome Collection has been undergoing a major renovation for a very long time now! But, finally they have joined the rank of museums with a ‘trendy’ waiter service restaurant. Wellcome Kitchen is located on the second floor and is a bright, modern, inviting dining room with a cool, cosy design. At the time we visited there were plans to convert the entrance to the restaurant into a cafĂ© space which will create a further buzz. The menu offers around four varied choices per course so I kicked off with a hake tempura which was surprisingly good. I was really looking forward to my buckwheat cauliflower risotto so was sorely disappointed when a rather tasteless, overcooked mush arrived. It wasn’t bad enough to send back and had that air of ‘it tastes this way because it’s good for you’ but not one to ever have again. I really wanted pudding (the chocolate cake) but he was full and wanted to move on so I’ll have to come back. Yes despite the risotto mush, Wellcome Kitchen really is lovely. The setting, the menu and I suspect when they are no longer in their first week of operation, the food make for a relaxing, sociable lunch in between viewing Henry Wellcome’s medical marvels. The 50% off bill was a super surprise (soft launch) but even the full menu prices are reasonable. A good, upmarket yet affordable addition to the polluted, traffic-ridden Euston Road.
He
said: Walking into Wellcome Kitchen was a bit of a madeleine moment for me: the
pared down retro look and geometric parquet reminded me a lot of my old school
(in a good way). I really like the way this place is decorated, including the
science and medicine themed art on the walls. You definitely forget that on the
other side of the windows lurks the Euston Road, one of Europe’s most hideous
and polluted thoroughfares. I had a nice green broth, followed by a very
prettily arranged vegetarian main. Service could probably have been a little
better and swifter, given how quiet it was during our visit. But it would be
churlish to moan since we went during the soft launch and got it all for half
price. I have a feeling that the food is probably always going to be slightly
off the mark, given the Benugo association, but it's definitely good enough,
and a very nice place to meet up with people after taking-in one of Wellcome’s often
very good exhibitions.
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