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📍 Coppa Club

Since October 2017, Coppa Club opened Winter Igloo at the Tower Bridge branch, which has become a popular restaurant in London. As early as October, after seeing the beautiful exterior photos on the restaurant's website online, I made up my mind to celebrate Christmas here with my boyfriend. Reservations for Winter Igloo are always busy, and we have fully booked all of our locations up to February in October. What's more, we ordered the Christmas set in the restaurant (£34.95/1).

💡 Location: Tower Hill Station - 4 minute walk (map requestClick here)
💡 Official website:https://www.coppaclub.co.uk/towerbridge/
💡 Opening hours: 7:30 AM - 11:00 PM (Mon - Thur)/12:00 AM (Fri), 9:00 AM - 12:00 AM (Sat)/10:30 PM (Sun)

🍴 Appetizer Sharing Plate

The restaurant stipulates at least two main points of the Christmas package, since both the appetizer and dessert are sharing plates. The appetizer was bread with pesto sauce, capers and olive sauce, and olives. The caper olive sauce doesn't go well with bread. The strong olive flavor and sourness overshadows the butter bread. Needless to say, green sauce is really a perfect match for butter bread. The light flavor matches the aroma of butter. We cleared the sauce in less than a few minutes, leaving only a full olive.

🍴 Appetizer - truffle celery soup + fried beef balls

The dish was served slowly, or because of the busy schedule. We ordered a bowl of truffle celery soup and a fried beef ball with mayonnaise as an appetizer, and waited about 10 minutes to arrive. Truffle celery soup has a light flavor. Unlike the truffle mushroom soup you drink on weekdays, the truffle flavor isn't that strong, and the texture isn't that firm. The beef balls have a good flavor. They go well with grated cheese and mayonnaise, and you can feel the beef's gravy even when you bite them down. Compared to the two appetizers, this one is better.

🍴 Main dish - Italian Wonton

As the main dish, we ordered a mushroom Italian wonton and a slow-cooked yakiniku. I felt that the arrangement of the two dishes was not carefully designed, and the aesthetic value was greatly reduced. Italian wonton has an average flavor. The bean paste contained in it is not rich enough; it is only a thin slice. What's more, after adding cheese and mushrooms, it tastes pretty good.

🍴 Main dish - slow cooked yakiniku

However, this slow-cooked yakiniku portion is definitely a bit small. The crispy skin of yakiniku goes well with Rhubarb sauce, and the two lard flakes on the side melt in the mouth. My boyfriend felt that the flavor was not very different from the yakiniku I ate in Hong Kong. It was also tender meat with a crunchy skin. Therefore, these two dishes are uncharacteristic and not appealing enough.

🍴 Main dish Sharing Plate

Sweet potatoes, potatoes, and Japanese seasonal dishes are also included in the main dish as a sharing plate. We actually couldn't finish eating enough, making up for the small portions of the main dish and filling our stomachs. We were also a little surprised when serving. We didn't expect that Western restaurants would have the concept of sharing like Chinese food, and the exterior of the food wasn't as carefully arranged as in Western restaurants on weekdays.

🍴 Dessert Sharing Plate

For dessert, the beautiful sharing plate is topped with 2 servings of cranberry brownie, boiled pear and almond cake, citrus cheesecake, vanilla ice cream, and cream. Among them, the boiled pear and almond cake surprised me the most. I didn't expect these two ingredients to go well together. The softness of boiled pears and the crispness of the almonds made this dessert even richer. After the dessert, a pot of Musetti coffee will be included as the final chapter of the entire menu. The coffee doesn't have a strong flavor and is easy to eat. Two people can drink about two or three cups when sharing a pot.

Before I left, I took a few pictures in the Igloo area outside the restaurant. Afterwards, someone very warmly invited us to take a picture of one of the Igloo without guests. I didn't expect to find out at the end that the other person wasn't a staff member, but a traveler just like us! As a result, we found several photos by mistake. Overall, the decoration outside the store definitely attracted many visitors. Compared to the Christmas menu, the daily menu has more options and is more delicious. There are also quite a few visitors who took pictures directly outside the restaurant and then left, so if you just want to take a picture here, you don't need to go in and eat. Although Coppa Club has several branches in London, you must book the Tower Bridge branch to have this romantic view! If you want to eat behind Winter Igloo, you'll need to make an early reservation. It usually pops up a few days after opening the location for the next few months! Furthermore, Coppa Club has reserved 2 locations to allow guests to walk in, which is only a matter of luck!

How to get to Coppa Club?

💡 Location: 3 Three Quays Walk, Lower Thames St, London EC3R 6AH (Click here for map direction)
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💡 Opening hours: 7:30 AM - 11:00 PM (Mon - Thur)/12:00 AM (Fri), 9:00 AM - 12:00 AM (Sat)/10:30 PM (Sun)