Veneta may have been a lacklustre way to round off 2016. But the year has had many highlights. Jay Rayner picks his best
Veneta, 3 Norris Street, London SW1Y 4RJ ( 020 3874 9100). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £120
On paper, which is to say the menu, it sounded fabulous: a fried “polenta, speck and fontina sandwich”. You’re offering me a ham and cheese toastie, in a fancy Venetian themed restaurant? I’m in. What arrived was two flavourless blocks of carbohydrate inside a breadcrumb shell the colour of a neglected child’s tea. They looked like fish fingers, but tasted like sofa cushions. I pulled them apart to find a meagre smear of cheese and a fragment of ham.
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