#sixbynico

Definition of a sexy night: Gastro experience and Jazz night

Six by Nico is a restaurant with a really interesting concept.  Six course tasting menus which change every six weeks, each of which have a theme.  The current theme being served is their Once Upon a Time menu.  It’s pretty tough to get a booking but we managed to grab one (it did lead us to having a very early dinner though) so keep on reading to see how it went.

This is actually only the first half of the first course.  Inspired by Oliver Twist and named Please Sir, Can I have some more?, the bit in the above photo is the hasselback potato with a garlic sauce and sour cream.  This was really nice but disappeared very quickly as it really was just a mouthful.  It felt like it was more of an amuse bouche than an actual starter.

Underneath that potato was a bowl of potato mousseline which had been hay smoked.  The hay was very subtle but the mousseline was super smooth and really tasty.  Very enjoyable!

Onto course 2: Called Marmalade and supposedly from Paddington Bear, this was an ox cheek ragu on a sourdough bruschetta with a mushroom sauce on the side.  This had a hint of truffle through the whole dish and the ragu was crazy rich but super meaty.  A very impressive course!

Onto the Matilda course now called Hey Dipface, Have a Carrot.  This was a a whole baked tandoori carrot with a carrot remoulade and a few dollops of a couple of different sauces.  This was a weaker dish than the first 2 for me but still not bad.  The roast carrot was lovely and tender with a strong spice to it and the remoulade was a little coleslaw-y.  The dots of sauce didn’t add a huge amount for me but looked pretty.

Course 4 was Let’s go Trout Poaching from Danny, Champion of the World.  The dish itself was sea trout in this slightly smoky sauce with a bunch of samphire on top of it.  That sauce was delicious; not 100% sure what it was made of but it was very moreish.  The fish was perfectly cooked as well and it all came together really well. 

Course 5 now and from the Ugly Duckling comes this dish called The Most Beautiful...  A perfectly cooked piece of duck with a candied walnut and a thin layer of boulangere potato.  Really tasty but as with all of these dishes, I kinda just wanted a little more!

The final course came in a bell jar filled with smoke.  From Beauty and the Beast, this was the Last Rose Petal.

Once the bell jar was taken off and the smoke dissipated, we were left with a great looking dessert with a rose made of a white chocolate shell filled with a mascarpone filling.  Not too sweet and surprisingly refreshing for a marscarpone dessert.  A nice end to the meal.

Now it’s worth noting that this six course tasting menu costs £37 per person which is really good value.  The other side of that though is that it’s 6 small courses.  I’ll have to admit, as much as I enjoyed each of the 6 courses, I was far from stuffed at the end of the meal.  Now you can add an extra course at the beginning that I would definitely recommend going for based just on the amount of food.  None the less, this was a well executed original idea which is pretty hard to find nowadays!

Six by Nico, 6 Chancellor Passage, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5EA