Brunch @ Blixen

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On a recent Saturday mid-morning, the bloke and I headed over to Blixen restaurant in Spitalfields market to enjoy brunch. Brunch at Blixen can be easily-combined with a trip to Spitalfields Market, Sunday Brick Lane Market, or Columbia Road Flower Market (Sundays only). Blixen only opened in February 2015, so it's not been on the restaurant scene for long. Despite that, it has already become a firm favourite with bloggers and foodies as one of the places to go to get brunch. With all of the raving reviews, I wanted to try it out for myself, so I booked a table.

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The restaurant is located on the edge of Spitalfields Market and has the benefit of the large windows on the side of the building, flooding the restaurant with light. A bar is situated along the side wall, and the kitchen and food is prepared toward the back of the restaurant, which is open with a bar area where diners can sit and watch the kitchen. 

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Garden plants also feature prominently around the restaurant, and the back area (which unforutnately was closed when I visited) has more plants and more of a garden theme than the front room. Another theme of the decor was the 'seaside' or ship theme with some of the lighting dotted around and also the bathrooms downstairs.

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We were shown a table near the front of the restaurant. We ordered our drinks first. All of the drink flavours consisted of fruit and herb ingredients for alternative flavours.

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The grapefruit and coriander soda tasted refreshing. The bloke had a fruit juice known as "Good Times", and this was made with pear, pineapple, and ginger. I am not a fan of pear, but pear fans would love this. It also contains ginger, which is a perfect ingredient to warm up on a cold day.

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Our meals arrived, and the bloke had the "Everything Breakfast". The breakfast consisted of baked beans, bacon, sausage, egg, tomato, mushroom, and toast. The bloke did not want egg or beans, so he received some extra meat. I did not hear any complaints about the breakfast.

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I ordered a side of potato rosti and scrambled eggs side (shown below). The scrambled egg was delicious, but the potato rosti was horrible. I could not finish it all. I did inform the waitress that it had too much oil and tasted of oil instead of potato. I only ate two spoonfuls of it, and the remainder stayed on the plate.

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My main was the pancakes with blueberries and mascarpone. This tasted nice, and the mascarpone made the pancakes taste not too 'heavy'. The layers of pancake had a spoon of blueberry between them. I cannot fault this dish as it had a good flavour and was not too 'heavy'. I normally like syrup to give the pancake flavour, but this was fine with the blueberry and mascarpone.

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Now for the verdict. Would I visit Blixen again? I would not visit it again for brunch as I was left feeling underwhelmed from my expectations and the rave that I have read about it, and the potat rosti was really horrible and just a ball of oil. I may visit for dinner at some point, but I would not rush back. Have you visited, and what did you think?

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