St Martin's Lane hotel houses an unusually well designed (for a hotel) fusion restaurant. When one thinks of fusion its usually amongst various Asian cuisines. Asia de Cuba takes this to a different level as you can guess from the name the dishes such as for example "Crab croquetas, jicama, mango, green apple and mirin infused slaw, roasted red pepper remoulade, chili ponzu dipping sauce". This very dish no matter how exiting it sounds tasted like crab and avocado salad with thousand islands sauce. No matter how intent I was on really liking Asia de Cuba I couldn't help but feel that the dishes, despite being quite nice, fell short of tasting as complicated and interesting as the descriptions promised. Nonetheless it is an interesting place to take a new acquaintance, has an great cocktails list and an intimate hotel bar next door. In addition it specialises in sharing platters so you do get to try a bit of everything without looking like you're playing William the Conqueror over your neighbors' plates.
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