Avobar is a London superfood restaurant that makes healthy eating cool and trendy with their innovative ideas and dishes. They bring forward and make the avocado the star. So, if you love avocado, you have to check this place out. They have an amazing menu. We got two things from there. One we liked and one not so much.
Matcha Pancakes
We got the matcha pancakes which came with caramelised banana, maple syrup and avo-butter. This was definitely different to usual pancakes. It was sweet with a hint of savoury. You can taste the matcha, but only just about. It tasted more like banana bread to be honest, which I love. So, I really did enjoy this. Make sure you take it all into your bite though – the pancake, banana, maple syrup and avo-butter – delicious!
Avo Bun Lobster
This was the second dish we got from Avobar. Unfortunately, this wasn’t as positive of an experience for us as the first dish. I’ll put a disclaimer here first though: this is due to our own personal taste.
So, the dish is an avo bun with lobster chunks, tangy passionfruit, mango, Tabasco mayo, celeriac slaw and house-made sweet potato chips on the side.
To cut a long story short, basically the lobster had an extremely fishy/raw taste to it. I took the first bite and I knew immediately that this is something my wife would not like at all. And so she did not. She couldn’t even swallow her one bite. I managed to finish it (it’s £22.50 – how can I not!?), but I, as a fish lover, will not be ordering this again either. Way too fishy. Now, I’m not much of a lobster connoisseur, so I don’t know if this is the norm. If it is, I guess lobster is not for us. If it isn’t, then I really do wish they can maybe tone down the fishy smell and taste somehow. It’s extremely overpowering.
I did like the idea of the avo bun – very creative and something we’d not seen anywhere else. Maybe should’ve opted for their sweet potato and red lentil patty version.
Overall
Overall, I loved the vibe at this place. Very cool and trendy little spot in a trendy part of London. Fits right in! They have an impressively creative avocado themed menu with some really interesting items like the avo brownie and avo cheesecake. We loved the matcha pancakes. Being an avocado themed restaurant, we regret not getting an avocado toast dish and an avocado shake – maybe an excuse to head back? A definite recommendation when in Covent Garden London.
Note: restaurant does not serve halal food, but there are numerous vegetarian/vegan options.
Getting there
Parking: Ossulston Street – free evenings and weekends – plenty of parking spaces on Sundays – about 20-30 min walk from Soho/Chinatown, but it is just outside congestion zone
Nearest Mosque: Muslim World League Goodge Street (5 min drive)
Nearest station: Leicester Square
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