Saxon and Parole

I don't normally get inspired to put up posts about the places I've eaten at. Maybe it's because I go out so much but for some reason I felt compelled to put one up for a place I went to on Friday night called Saxon and Parole (S&P). S&P is housed in the same building where Double Crown was located. It's infact owned and run by the same mob. Apparently contemperary Asian must not be quite in vogue and a refit was needed. 


Personally I really liked the food at Double Crown but anyway. Double Crown was famous for a secret door out the back which led to the bar next door and infamous as having the most popular toilets in NYC to get it on. Anyway this is about S&P so enough of the old.


After nearly 2 years I've learnt that to get in at any decent New York resteraunt you've gotta book way in advance so here I was nice and efficicent in booking this place almost a month before. Tracy, Louisa and I headed along and were seated in the upstairs section. I was a little nervous as the place was reviewed in Time Out this week and came out with 3/5 stars. It's definalty one of the more hip places in town at the moment but that's probably because it was new. We were also coming off the back of a fairly high end experience at Eleven Madison Park just two nights before so I was not sure what to expect.


We started with a random selection of Oysters, Ravioli, portobello mushroom mousse and miso glased bone marrow. My personal favorite was the bone marrow and I felt very Flintstone like when a dinosaur like bone came out full of the stuff. The mushroom mousse was also pretty good and went well on some bread.

The Starters

For mains we had short rib, filet mignon and I had a dirty hamburger. I managed to get them to put some egg and beetroot on the burger and it's the closest I've come to getting an Aussie burger in this town. All I needed was some pineapple and I would have been set.

Mains

The food had a real comfort factor without the bread crumbs. Tasty, yes. Interesting twists, yes. Mind blowingly original, hmmmm probably not but it got me writing a blog so something must have been good.

The race horses the place is named after.

The main bar