{"id":1143,"date":"2013-07-14T15:01:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T15:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2013-07-14T16:14:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T16:14:24","slug":"quantus-restaurant-devonshire-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/quantus-restaurant-devonshire-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantus Restaurant, Devonshire Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Turning up on a summer’s evening to sit near the window in this understated, small local favourite, sipping an English Strawberry Puree + Prosecco Bellini; you might be forgiven for thinking you are on holiday.<\/p>\n

Leo and Ennes are two of the friendliest business owners you might meet in Chiswick, and regulars know they will be given a warm welcome on arrival.<\/p>\n

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And what a generous welcome this was: a lovely Riesling from the cellar:<\/p>\n

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The elegant surroundings of Devonshire Road, shown here in my slightly poncy \/ artsy reflection shot. A damned good wine, this Pechstein…<\/p>\n

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As an appetiser we had home cured salmon marinated in citrus with fresh cucumber, light wasabi mayo, dill<\/strong>. Look at the amazing colour of this cured salmon!<\/p>\n

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After working our way through a lovely special bottle of Pechstien 2007, we were recommended this South American Malbec, which Ennes explained was a big favourite of regular customers at Quantus:<\/p>\n

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Onto the starters.<\/p>\n

Exquisite presentation: <\/strong>Szechuan duck leg confit, saffron spaetzle, asparagus, peppers, green salsa criolla.<\/p>\n

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Although my\u00a0Szechuan duck was enjoyable, I did unfortunately have quite a bit of food envy for the below, which was\u00a0Seared scallop gambas, with burnt sweetcorn, chilli, micro coriander, \u201cPhuket style\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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This steak from Turnham Green Terrace’s famous Macken Brothers was cooked to perfection. Personally I found the butter beans a little ‘subtle’ in flavour, and the horseradish could have packed more of a punch; though overall a very satisfying dish.<\/p>\n

Here is a photo of the\u00a0Macken Bros grilled beef fillet, homemade horseradish, leek & butterbeans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Our other main dish was a very generous portion of\u00a0lime & coconut fish, chilli, ginger, cilantro & peanut gremolata, green bean and jasmine rice<\/strong>. I really wanted to bottle-up this sauce and take it home, it was so good.<\/p>\n

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Onto puddings, and please forgive the slightly grainy photos here as we had moved into dusk time by now. (Or was it the wine?)<\/p>\n

Pictured below is the amazing\u00a0Cremoso mascarpone, chocolate and M&M, almond crumble, amaretto & espresso syrup<\/strong>. Now this I like; a restaurant that considers itself high-end dining but one which is perfectly happy to include frivolities like M&Ms in the menu. Perfect.<\/p>\n

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What do you get if you cross Dulce de Leche with Banoffee Pie? You get this gorgeous Banana Dulce de Leche dish, served with vanilla ice cream<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Finally, and because I’m an absolute pudding glutton, I couldn’t resist trying this clementine jelly, honeyed Greek yoghurt, rhubarb compote. Pudding heaven! (I didn’t eat for a few days after this, honest.)<\/p>\n

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It’s easy to see why Quantus was voted one of the UK’s top 25 most romantic restaurants by TopTable users; the intimate feel and gorgeous ambiance make for a perfect evening out in the Costa Del Chiswick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Voted one of “Top 25 most romantic restaurants in the UK” by diners on the TopTable restaurant, Quantus in Chiswick is a smart-casual, highly affordable fine dining restaurant in Devonshire Road serving a delicious eclectic cuisine with a South American influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[76,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chiswickish.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}