Fifteen and Fabulous!

Those of you who know Marty and I well will be familiar with our love of all things Jamie Oliver! Okay, more me, but Marty is always happy with dinners from one of my many Jamie recipe books! Last year we avidly watched the TV series ‘Jamie’s Kitchen’ which followed the establishment of his training restaurant, Fifteen, in London. Back then, I never imagined we would live near London, and even if we did, a table at places like this take months to secure.

Well, we booked last week and reserved a table for Monday night at the Fifteen London restaurant. I spent a lovely afternoon all by myself in Kensington High Street and at KP then made my way by tube and bus to the north-east side of the city to meet Marty after work.

The restaurant is set on two levels – the informal trattoria and bar at street level and the fine dining space downstairs. The restaurant has an open kitchen and there wasn’t too much stress and screaming go on back there! We decided to totally spoil ourselves and opted for the 6 course set menu with wines to match. The staff was young and fun but truly professional, and the food fresh and delicious and beautifully presented. We savoured each bite! The whole atmosphere was cool and funky and we had such a good time!

So good, in fact that we didn’t want to leave. So we headed upstairs to the bar and sat in front of the open trattoria kitchen and oohed and aahed over the mouth-watering dishes coming out of there! The staff was so chatty and friendly and we had to hop it to make sure we caught our tube train to connect with the Windsor line at Waterloo!

It was a late night but we had so much fun and kept pinching ourselves that we were actually there! Then I couldn’t sleep because the dishes were going around in my head. Can’t pick a favourite! To all of you in Melbourne, we highly recommend Fifteen. You might like to join us upon our return!