Molecular dining in Islington with Kitchen Theory

What better place to host a multi-sensory dining experience than House of Wolf? This self-styled ‘Victorian lair with experimental dining, drinking and live entertainment’, which even serves wearable cocktails, hosts Kitchen Theory's Elements pop-up for a series of dates this autumn. Devised by chefs Jozef Youssef and Helder Gila-Alonso, both with experience at numerous multi-starred restaurants (The Fat Duck, Pierre Gagnaire, Sketch), the menu is anything but elementary. Displaying their flair for all things molecular, it starts with cryo-poached grapefruit meringue (that’s poached in liquid nitrogen in case you were wondering) and soya bean mousse with beef and black garlic, both evoking the element ‘air’. The rest of the dishes are also artfully adorned with foams, mousses and spheres. Unlike your average modernist meal, though, this one’s not going to break the bank at £53 for eight courses. Presentation is striking and to make things properly Blumenthal-esque, there’s even an ‘auditory soundscape’.