Start your new year off healthy at Bluebird.
The new year is coming, and with it the inevitable broken resolutions. Because really, who ever keeps their New Year's resolutions? In the hopes that this year will be different, here are three dining options to help you kick-start a healthy 2008:
Covent Garden newcomer Tamarai is offering a range of healthy pan-Asian dishes and a selection of detox cocktails to help cleanse the body and soul after December’s over-indulging. In addition to light grills and curries, you will find steamed dim sum dishes such as herb tofu rolls and lemon grass sambal (£4.50), golden crispy cups with sweet corn, water chestnut and goji berries (£4.50), mango and green papayas with banana blossom and pandana dressing (£6.50) and mud crab and pomelo with galangal and palm sugar (£10.50). Restorative drinks such as the Rising Sun (nashi pear, pomegranate juice, apple juice and cinnamon, £8) will incorporate ingredients used in Asia to treat a variety of ailments.
Saki Bar & Food Emporium is ringing in the new year with healthy options like mixed seaweed salad with miso vinaigrette, monkfish liver with miso vinaigrette and ponzu citrus gelee, and horse mackerel sashimi with shredded carrot and daikon radish. All contain ingredients said to promote key detox processes. The dishes, whose prices have yet to be determined, will be served throughout January and February, some as lunchtime specials, others from the à la carte dinner menu. Saki is also offering two 75ml drinks to keep you healthy: Kuroichigo (Japanese black vinegar, strawberries, cranberry juice, honey, black pepper) and Prune Shock (prune juice, ginger, muddled white grapes, cinnamon, honey, apple balsamic vinegar).
Finally, the recently reopened Bluebird is offering a drinks and spa menu designed for après New Year. Available the first two months of the year are nutrient-packed dishes such as oat-crusted butterflied mackerel with purple sprouting broccoli, pomegranate and olive oil, and winter brodo of organic pulses with chickpeas, borlotti beans, kale and gremolata. The menu is £13 for two courses and £15.50 for three, and is available at lunch and dinner, along with the de rigueur fruit- and vegetable-based cocktails. The restaurant has launched a Spa at The Shop at Bluebird, and as a gift to customers, Bluebird patrons will receive a complimentary nutritional and skin care consultation and a 10% discount on their first treatment during the month of January. To book, contact The Spa on 020-7351 5210.