Saturday 24 March 2007

The Kensington Crêperie

The Kensington Crêperie has a noisy café atmosphere with small tables crammed up against each other… and an amazingly large choice of crêpes on the menu. Savoury crepes, sweet crêpes, lots and lots of each type to choose from. The crêpes are freshly made in the kitchen area, which is positioned at the front of the café so that from the street outside you can press your nose to the window and droolingly watch them being made.

I settled on a Crêpe Suzette as I fancied the nice, warming, orangey flavour of the Grand Marnier, and I had it with a cup of hot chocolate. I was pleased with my hot chocolate because it was made with heated milk, it wasn’t the boiled water with a spoon of chocolate powder mixed in that I had been half-expecting. And there was also some effort to present our sweet crêpes nicely too, with a sprinkling of icing sugar and a slice of lemon or orange. I have to say, my crêpe did taste really rather good!

The only problem, for me, with recipes like Crêpe Suzette, are that whoever invented the recipe designated that a little Grand Marnier be slopped onto the crêpe. Sounds fab until you actually go to eat it. In reality it means that you get one or two glorious, Grand Marnier soaked mouthfuls that slide down your throat, warming all your inner cockles, and then several dry and boring mouthfuls that aren’t really worth the bother of chewing them. Personally I’d quite like my crêpe to be dropped into a trough of Grand Marnier so that when it was pulled out every mouthful would taste like Crêpe Suzette and not Crêpe…Errr.

Charles decided to have the chocolate and hazelnut crêpe and I was drooling in anticipation of trying this one. Then at the last minute, damn him, he changed his mind and ordered lemon! How boring! I couldn’t be bothered to taste that as there’s nothing about a squeeze of lemon that excites me, so lucky Charlie-boy had his whole meal to himself for once. (Hmm, I wonder if that’s why he chose lemon??!) The little girl at the table next to us had the chocolate and hazelnut crêpe, as evidenced by the chocolate smeared all up her face, from chin to eyebrows, and she was silently ecstasizing over every mouthful. I was jealous!

The Kensington Crêperie Ltd, 2 Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2HF
www.kensingtoncreperie.com

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