The Spanish restaurant Camino is a rare thing indeed in King's Cross - a decent bar and restaurant. Happily doing business for a few years in the Regent's Quarter (opposite the old Scala), Camino is now expanding just across the courtyard.
Launching on 19 March is Bar Pepito, a small Andalusian 'bodega', which specialises in Sherry. Of course, the stuff on offer at Pepito will be a damn sight better than that which you or I might dust off from the back of the drinks cupboard for use in the Christmas trifle. The people behind Camino have jetted over to Jerez in Spain to research the drink (now that sounds like our kind of trip). Of course, a range of food will be on offer too. Camino tell us that "the menu from Camino's head chef Nacho del Campo is incisive, covering the out-and-out classics of the best olives, almonds and hand-carved ‘jamón’ with a few contemporary twists. As at Camino, all the food is 100% sustainable."
Bar Pepito will also be recommending the ideal snacks to go with your chosen beverage, such as Pedro Ximénez ‘Nectar’ with Figs with chocolate or Palo Cortado ‘Apostoles’ paired with grilled Ibérico pork shoulder with blue cheese on toast.
With all this and one of those increasingly popular enomatic system allowing punters to experiment with a wide range of sherries, Hot Dinners will be hotfooting it over to Kings Cross soon to check this sherry bar out.
