What...Dog and Fox urban Kitchen?
Pro Friendly & relaxed setting.
Con Heineken.
Pay
€€€
Per Person €25. 2/3 beers, starter, main, shared dessert, Gratis: aperitif & grappa. El tenedor bookings may be available.
Find
Website https://dogfoxurbankitchen.negocio.site/?m=true
Access Step free. High and standard tables.
In Short
Hopes. As we'd not read the menu before visiting, a surprise or two.
Reality. Consistent quality, all told.
First Impressions. An undeniably a la mode interior. Exposed brick. Bent forks for coat hooks. Nice.
USP? A song-monikered menu, most of which is played during the evening. Well, it's only rock and roll. Only just, in some cases.
The offer in three words. Smart Latam grill.
Service! Great. Quick, helpful. Minor bill doubt solved instantly.
Friend friendly? Needs thinking about as it's a pretty meaty menu.
Rating for dating. Ambience is good, but that menu might be a limiting factor, depending on diets.
Tip? 5
Change one thing? Wider draught beer range is a must.
Revisitability. Medium to good.
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What's the story?
We had an enjoyable evening's eating at Dog & Fox Urban Kitchen, although there are details to think about.
Let's do them first.
Sauces. Stick some bottles on the table! Ketchup, American mustard and something spicy would be very welcome. The cutlery's in a vintage buckety thing, plates are stacked ready to use. It's not going to go against the tone.
Beer. The decor had us expecting something from the modern Madrid stable. A real opportunity here, we think. Some diners would love La Virgen or Alhambra in a setting like this and, commercial oppurtunity ahoy, premium beers bring in punters.
On the whole, we liked Dog and Fox Urban Kitchen (a bit unwieldly to type, but you work out the logical abbreviation and see why we're not going with it), and even the affectation of naming all the dishes after songs is quirky enough.
There are Venezuelan flavours on offer and lots of North American options among the mains. International harmony on a wooden menu board. If only the real world could match it. We started off around the Equator, moved North for the mains and headed back south for dessert.
We are tequeño converts, so it's a starter we're easily waylaid by. Half a dozen crunchy tubes, very freshly prepared, in a very light batter with guayaba sauce. Excellently - probably deceptively - light cheesey sticks, the sauce is right, but more options on the table would be great for flavour-making creativity. Starter 2, Arepas, by their nature lack oomph. Even with a mini pulled pork pot and authentic sour cream, extra sauces would push things up an important notch.
A filling burger after a walk on a winter's day, this one. It's a pretty hefty piece of minced meat. The sauces do a good job of seasoning it. There's no salad. A bold choice, but welcome. Lettuce and tomato aren't as necessary as many burger bars think. The potette of lightly acidic slaw was good to cut through the meatyness and palate cleansing. We matched this with a pulled pork based Don't know how it feels. This was also a success, but for me PP, even in a dish named after a song by TP, once stuffed in a bun, gets a tad stodgy - as the juice soaks into the bread. Tasty, but that took the edge off. Fresh quality tasty buns, by the way, supporting our fifth rule.
We did score some ketchup for the chips, which I liked because they looked as if they'd been made with something like this. Portion size is fine next to the hefty protein package. They needed a minute - maybe two - more frying time to be perfect.
Two very filling mains left us with not a lot of dessert space. So we stopped for a bit. In need of a little digestive peace and quiet, did we get to enjoy the silence? Oh, irony.
Quesillo's a classic Venezuelan dessert, we've learnt. This one's pretty good. It could perhaps do with a touch of acidity (some places add a little citrus zest), but we liked it a lot. Kind of like a cheesecake puddin!, really. Creamy. Quite heavy. Moreish.
While all the eating's going on, you'll spend the evening with the menu's tunes in your head and almost certainly discussing the first time you heard them. In fact, thinking about it, the target demo are more likely to be debating if and when their parents did.
When. Their. Parents. Did.
Look, some of us need a moment, please.
Dog and Fox Urban Kitchen is worth seeking out. It's got something different about it. It's a bit off the beaten track. Service is friendly and chatty. There's a little library of books in a corner. The ceiling looks like its still got all its lovely original moulding. The food is enjoyable and well prepared and the service is helpful and aimable. Those things, depending on your demo, probably make it worth risking a mid-life crisis.
Pro Friendly & relaxed setting.
Con Heineken.
Pay
€€€
Per Person €25. 2/3 beers, starter, main, shared dessert, Gratis: aperitif & grappa. El tenedor bookings may be available.
Find
Website https://dogfoxurbankitchen.negocio.site/?m=true
Access Step free. High and standard tables.
In Short
Hopes. As we'd not read the menu before visiting, a surprise or two.
Reality. Consistent quality, all told.
First Impressions. An undeniably a la mode interior. Exposed brick. Bent forks for coat hooks. Nice.
USP? A song-monikered menu, most of which is played during the evening. Well, it's only rock and roll. Only just, in some cases.
The offer in three words. Smart Latam grill.
Service! Great. Quick, helpful. Minor bill doubt solved instantly.
Friend friendly? Needs thinking about as it's a pretty meaty menu.
Rating for dating. Ambience is good, but that menu might be a limiting factor, depending on diets.
Tip? 5
Change one thing? Wider draught beer range is a must.
Revisitability. Medium to good.
Compare & Contrast
In Pictures
On Google Images
What's the story?
We had an enjoyable evening's eating at Dog & Fox Urban Kitchen, although there are details to think about.
Let's do them first.
Sauces. Stick some bottles on the table! Ketchup, American mustard and something spicy would be very welcome. The cutlery's in a vintage buckety thing, plates are stacked ready to use. It's not going to go against the tone.
Beer. The decor had us expecting something from the modern Madrid stable. A real opportunity here, we think. Some diners would love La Virgen or Alhambra in a setting like this and, commercial oppurtunity ahoy, premium beers bring in punters.
On the whole, we liked Dog and Fox Urban Kitchen (a bit unwieldly to type, but you work out the logical abbreviation and see why we're not going with it), and even the affectation of naming all the dishes after songs is quirky enough.
There are Venezuelan flavours on offer and lots of North American options among the mains. International harmony on a wooden menu board. If only the real world could match it. We started off around the Equator, moved North for the mains and headed back south for dessert.
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| California Dreamin' |
We did score some ketchup for the chips, which I liked because they looked as if they'd been made with something like this. Portion size is fine next to the hefty protein package. They needed a minute - maybe two - more frying time to be perfect.
Two very filling mains left us with not a lot of dessert space. So we stopped for a bit. In need of a little digestive peace and quiet, did we get to enjoy the silence? Oh, irony.
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| Quesillo |
While all the eating's going on, you'll spend the evening with the menu's tunes in your head and almost certainly discussing the first time you heard them. In fact, thinking about it, the target demo are more likely to be debating if and when their parents did.
When. Their. Parents. Did.
Look, some of us need a moment, please.
Thank you.
Dog and Fox Urban Kitchen is worth seeking out. It's got something different about it. It's a bit off the beaten track. Service is friendly and chatty. There's a little library of books in a corner. The ceiling looks like its still got all its lovely original moulding. The food is enjoyable and well prepared and the service is helpful and aimable. Those things, depending on your demo, probably make it worth risking a mid-life crisis.