The Cocochine
"Classy global cooking in swanky location."
Overview
Down a quiet street off Berkeley Square, The Cocochine boasts an upmarket address in a handsome townhouse in the heart of Mayfair. Whether you pick the kitchen counter seats on the first floor or the elegant ground-floor dining room, it’s a stylish setting. The main dining area on the ground floor is low lit and intimate with burgundy leather banquettes and tasteful bright artworks set against a neutral background. There's an open kitchen on the first floor with seven seats where diners can watch the creation of intricate and beautifully presented modern dishes reflecting chef Larry Jayasekera’s Sri Lankan heritage.
The menu offers superb fish and seafood from the island of Tanera Mòr near Orkney, including turbot, John Dory and hand-dived scallops. Other high quality seasonal ingredients come from the Rowler Farm estate in Northamptonshire, all of it appearing in accurately executed Asian-inspired dishes with great clarity of flavour, depth and balance. After innovative canapés like a doughnut filled with 36 month-aged Comté cheese custard and black truffle topped with grated aged parmesan, a meal here could begin with a precisely cooked XXL hand-dived scallop topped with chives, lemon zest and dehydrated scallop roe, accompanied by a coconut and scallop cream spiked with girolles, bacon and cloudberries and an Alsace bacon sabayon. It might be followed by melt-in-the-mouth pink Rowler Farm sika deer served on top of a spicy Sri Lankan coconut and pineapple sambal with beetroot purée, nasturtium purée, sloe berries, bitter chocolate and smoked deer fat. Round things off with a refreshing Sri Lankan pineapple, chilli and lime, followed by ‘Watalappam' – Sri Lankan crème caramel, crème fraîche ice cream and Golden Oscietra caviar. The extensive wine list offers a wide choice across Europe with an emphasis on classic French regions, especially Burgundy and Bordeaux, and more than 20 wines by the glass.
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Our inspector loves...
Mayfair Setting - On Bruton Place, close to Berkeley Square
First Floor Counter Seating - With ground floor dining room and private dining space on the top floor
Wonderful produce - Much from Rowler Farm in Northamptonshire. Noteworthy Scottish seafood.
Sharp precise cooking - Creative cooking with influences from chef's Sri Lankan heritage
Excellent Service - From the attentive and friendly team
About the area
London, the UK’s capital, is a metropolis of famous landmarks, unrivalled shopping, world-renowned arts venues, galleries and museums, dining and award-winning theatre. London is steeped in royal history, and visitors can watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, learn about the final days of Anne Boleyn at the Tower of London, or take a leisurely stroll around the capital’s Royal Parks
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