You’ll have to bear with me on this one as it has been almost a year since I visited this barbecue/grill steakhouse, a short walk away from St Paul’s Cathedral. It’s always busy at Barbecoa and it seems like one of those restaurants that has based its reputation on its name and affiliations rather than the quality of its food.

Although there wasn’t anything I particularly disliked about it. The issue was that, for the prices we were paying, it just didn’t seem to wow me in the way that I was expecting. Sure the crispy pig cheeks were lovely and the steak was cooked to how I requested it, but at the end of the day that’s all it was. Nicely prepared and cooked food but nothing there to make me shout from the rooftops (which in this particular case provides a beautiful view of St Paul’s Cathedral from Madison Bar at the top of One New Change).

After a year the lingering memories of Barbecoa were ‘meh’ and ‘it was a bit crowded wasn’t it?’