It looks like it could give your car an MOT, but 108 Garage is more interested in filling you up with great food
108 Garage, 108 Goldborne Road, London W10 5PS (020 8969 3769). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £120
Some restaurant names need to be unpicked. The 108 in this week’s is, quite obviously, the street number, on a stretch of west London’s Goldborne Road, cluttered with bijou décor shops, and more intriguing Moroccan and Portuguese mini-marts. As to “garage” you really have to see the place. If it wasn’t for the furniture you could easily imagine parking the motor in here. The walls are back-to-bare redbrick and the floor is polished concrete. The painted girders are on display and the base of the curving bar is more concrete, this time rough and pockmarked. A shiny, copper-coloured metal bar top adds decorum, undermined a little by the walls of pure corrugated steel further back, enclosing the kitchen.
The duck liver pâté is so soft and velvety you don’t know whether to eat it or sleep on it
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