Kudu restaurant review, Marylebone: Like eating on the savannah

The Kudu restaurant has relocated from Peckham to Marylebone

At Kudu in Marylebone, beer-pickled onions cut into teardrop shapes are put on top of my prime rib, which comes not on a wooden board but on a fancy plate. On the other side of the table, a whole monkfish is served with pickled fennel and sea beets.

These are two examples of restaurateur couple Amy Corbin and Patrick Williams’ gastronomic approach to braai, the South African style of fire cooking. The practice is more typically associated with great but predictable sling-it-on-the-fire meat, but the husband and wife duo are elevating the cuisine from its “basic” reputation in the capital.

Standing by the imposing braai cooker in the open kitchen in the middle of the restaurant, Williams doesn’t mean “basic” in a rude way. Lond