London’s 12 Best New Dishes Of 2022 - London - The Infatuation

"7/11 Pineapple Pie With Taro Ice Cream Those with a sweet tooth will know there’s a difference in excitement between mains and puds. One isn’t necessarily better than the other, but seeing a dessert you love, or one that sounds frankly outrageous, triggers a special kind of anticipatory sugar-rush squeal. This deep-fried pineapple pie from Speedboat Bar is one of those. A proper leg-jigger. There’s much to like about the Thai restaurant on the edge of Chinatown, but you could (and maybe should) just come here for this dessert. It’s a golden, sugar-laden pastry pocket, filled with sweet pineapple chunks in syrup—hot, but not third degree burn hot—with a scoop of lilac taro ice cream on top. It’s sweet, it’s crunchy, it’s syrupy, it’s hot, it’s cold, it’s a McDonald’s apple pie that’s come back from its gap year in a very good way." - daisy meager, jake missing, rianne shlebak, heidi lauth beasley