Stepping into Feels Like June feels like stepping onto the set of some kind of LA show home. Oozing with Californian cool, it’s an Instagram interior design page’s dream. Pastel coloured vases are carefully tucked into sage green shelves, a huge feature wall showcases a selection of brightly-coloured prints, and dusky pink stools sit at a long bar, adorned with hanging green plants and gold features.
Dishes and flavours at Feels Like June are simple, clean, and fresh. An introductory mezze plate of lightly toasted pitta and carrot hummus with jewelled pomegranates, creamy beetroot feta, and sharp lemon labneh with aleppo chilli sets the tone of the meal nicely, though is a little steeply priced.
The black Venere rice salad is light, fresh, and colourful– the kind you could imagine featured on an LA influencer’s Instagram stories - a plate of sharp flavour and texture contrasts. Sweet potatoes, crunchy pickled vegetables, and mixed greens are seasoned by an agave vinaigrette which is particularly sweet, and perhaps might benefit from a little more sharpness. The vegan burger is - as you'd expect - from Beyond Meat, made more exciting through the addition of caramelized onion and pickles.
The dessert menu continues with Feels Like June’s Californian inspiration, the banana split a fun and unexpected diversion from an otherwise rather sophisticated menu.
Cocktails are exciting and themed, feeling all the more glamorous when the restaurant’s lights are dimmed at 8.30pm. The rhubarb Cosmopolitan and ‘All Summer Long’ in particular would make good additions to an evening of drinks. On a midweek evening, the atmosphere is calm; tables are peppered with couples, businessmen on laptops, and friend groups coming for after-work drinks.
Friendly and attentive staff, a young, Canary Wharf crowd, and a menu of smoothly executed dishes served up in a contemporary and clearly very well thought-out setting make Feels Like June the ideal spot for a classy night out with friends and dates.