Farage held his 60th birthday party at the Canary Wharf branch of the Scots themed restaurant Boisdale. The original and one he appears to frequent is near Victoria Station.
Perhaps needless to say I havent been or intend to. However the Times sent its right-wing restaurant critic Charlotee Ivers (arguably not as right-wing as its other restaurant critic Giles Coren) who took along right-wing TalkTalk operative Mike Graham for company.
The restaurant she reports is decorated in tartan with the feel of a gentleman’s club. It has a separate pub like bar and a smoking terrace. It describes itself as a British restaurant with the menu printed on a Union Jack but the food appears relentlessly Scottish (a variant of).
Food includes cullen skink, pickled Orkney herring, Isle of Uist scallop, smoked eel, smoked salmon etc.
3 oysters cost £14, Shetland mussles in white wine sauce £25, haggis with neeps & tatties £24.50.
I’m Scottish and it looks good to me and for central London not excessively priced. Its not exactly fine dining and there some Scottish restaurants around that do that well.
The clue as to why Farage likes it comes elsewhere I think. Ivers and Graham admit to two bottles of wine, one priced at £69.50 and one at £59. And of course there is the smoking terrace. Drinking and smoking being more of the Reform Ltd’s owner’s thing than the food one suspects.
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