We started right at the top of Kingly Court at Le Bab which is on the 2nd floor. We choose Le Bab as it serves posh kebabs which seemed like a novel idea. Also I had never had a kebab before so this seemed like the perfect place to try one.
Le Bab has a very interesting small menu with unique dishes. It was hard to just pick one dish but we went with the 15-hour free range pork shawarma kebab. We were definitely swayed by the crackling.
It really was tasty with flavours that I hadn't expected when we ordered it. For £12 it initially seemed pretty steep for what is essentially a pork wrap but after tasting it I would say it was worth it.
Moving on from the Le Bab, we next went to Señor Ceviche which is a Peruvian restaurant specialising in Ceviche. We definitely knew we wanted to go for a ceviche here and after perusing the menu for a while went for "The Spaniard" which is a sea bream and king prawn ceviche.
We got given a mini bowl of what looked like sweetcorn and I guess it was sweetcorn but it was salty and crispy. It was like popcorn that hadn't puffed and was very moreish, we finished our little portion.
I accidentally didn't take a photo before we split the ceviche onto our 2 plates but I promise it looked a little more presentable. It tasted really fresh and slightly spicy, on the other end of the spectrum to our pork kebab!
I do have to say that our waitress here was a little miffed that we only ordered one dish to share but I think that was because she was really enthusiastic about the food and maybe thought that she wasn't selling it enough to us.
The final restaurant that we gave a go was Oka, a sushi restaurant. Here it was a no brainer and we ordered the Spider roll, a soft shell crab uramaki topped with avocado.
It was good sushi, not amazing (I'm talking about you black cod from Sticks and Sushi), but for the price it was really worth it.
Now we were running out of time so instead of swapping restaurants for dessert we ordered their white chocolate and macadamia nut cookie skillet. This was sooo yummy especially when the ice cream melted into the warm cookie. It is a nice simple idea for a dessert which would be easy to recreate at home.
After our restaurant hopping we hurried up to Madame Tussauds for "The Game's Afoot" which is a live action immersive theatre show. You are the detective and you ask the actors questions to try and work out who the killer is. It was possibly the coolest thing I have ever experienced and I am definitely on the lookout for more things like that to do. I can't tell you much more about it as I don't want to give anything else away so go do it for yourself.
Out of the three restaurants we went to I think Le Bab was the best because it was so different to anything I have had before and the one dish we had was so flavoursome that I really can't wait to go back and try more.
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