{"id":560,"date":"2006-03-28T09:36:36","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T16:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=560"},"modified":"2006-03-28T09:36:36","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T16:36:36","slug":"bar-bourse-review-smoked-crocodile-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/bar-bourse-review-smoked-crocodile-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar Bourse Review: smoked crocodile in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently met Malcom Skinner, EMEA PR director for Cybertrust<\/a>, for lunch at a place called Bar Bourse in Mansion House. It seems like other people really love it, given outstanding reviews here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You’d probably call the food Fusion if you were a Californian. Lord knows how a Londoner should describe it. <\/p>\n

My "Asian plate" of tempura prawn, spring roll and sushi was good, if not mind-blowing. Just a bit too much grease in the tempura.<\/p>\n

Malcolm had the smoked crocodile salad. Of course it tasted like chicken – said he. What I didn’t necessarily expect was that it looked like chicken too…<\/p>\n

For a main course I plumped for the pan-fried seabass. You can’t really go wrong with seabass- but the purple potatoes that came with the fish were disappointing – a big dollop of normal mash would have been better – style over content.<\/p>\n

Malcolm’s grilled scallops were perfect though – with chili, coriander and lime.<\/p>\n

The restaurant has a nice buzz, pleasant waiting staff, and is evidently very popular. It’s not cheap but its in the heart of the City. All in all I would give the restaurant a thumbs up – I would go again.<\/p>\n

The real reason I am posting this review however is a bet I made with Malcolm about the efficacy of blogging. I bet him that the Google link ranks were likely to place this review more highly than you would expect. So lets wait a couple of days and see.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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I recently met Malcom Skinner, EMEA PR director for Cybertrust, for lunch at a place called Bar Bourse in Mansion House. It seems like other people really love it, given outstanding reviews here. You’d probably call the food Fusion if you were a Californian. Lord knows how a Londoner should describe it. My "Asian plate"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-92","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}