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Frog by Adam Handling

• Modern British• Covent Garden

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About the restaurant

There’s an extensive à la carte menu here, but one of the extensive tasting menus is a great way to experience Handling’s cooking and service. The standout is Adam’s Menu, which features seven courses alongside pre-dinner snacks and a supplemental course. Pescatarian, vegetarian and vegan versions of the menu are also available.

Dishes on the menu are seasonal and change regularly, but there are a few mainstay dishes, including chicken butter – a whipped butter served with chicken jus and crispy chicken skin alongside house-baked bread – lobster poached in Wagyu beef fat, and ‘Mother’, a dish of celeriac, apple, truffled cream cheese that has appeared on the menu at every one of Handling’s restaurants.

While the restaurant space is on the ground floor, the basement is given up to Eve Bar, which serves cocktails as creative as the food in a dark, cosy room filled with original art pieces.

Reviews from the Web

Critic reviews

The Independent

It’s complicated food – much more so than Adam’s MasterChef days – that’s incredibly rich, and despite the cost of the combined tasting course and wines, the bang is still worth the buck.

The Infatuation

Their five- or eight-course tasting menus do offer a real balance, but you can order a la carte as well. Things can get a little pricey if you’re matching your tasting menu with cocktails or wine but for something special, this place really is worth it.

Standard

Once again, it’s all about creative combinations served with plenty of theatrical fanfare and strictly no fussiness. Indeed, several of the original outpost's most popular dishes have made it onto the menu here, too.

The Nudge

The menu changes frequently and conveys Handling’s signature modern British style, using seasonal ingredients in mind-bogglingly technical compositions