Champagne + Fromage - Covent Garden

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"With a name that leaves little to the imagination, Champagne and Fromage celebrates the cheese-fizz love affair at its three bistros — in Covent Garden, Brixton Village and Greenwich. The deli-slash-restaurant stocks 20 growers’ champagnes, which can be bought by the bottle, tried in a taster flight or guzzled down during happy hour, along with 50 or so cheeses and a menu that’s not afraid to do a little better than its peers. Outstanding melted cheese dishes include baked Cancoillotte, Cremeux de Jura fondue, and baked Camembert with a dozen combinations of mouth-watering toppings — Corsican ham and sweet pepper jam, shallot confit and raspberries, truffle and port, to name a few. For platters, cheeses are grouped by family and meats by region, before being served on irregularly shaped wooden boards with decorative drizzles of jam, nibbles, and tapenades in dinky glass jars. Finally, there’s the afternoon tea — champagne, cheese, macarons in four flavours, salted caramel canelés, pink Reims biscuits and, of course, tea for dipping." - Daria Kyrilova