S.H.R.I.M.P.Y.S is finally open... I LOVE KINGS CROSS!

Bistrotheque's sister restaurant in King's Cross has opened it's doors and is now taking bookings.
I'm fully sucked in to all the hype, hands up I admit it. If it's anything as tasty and lovely as Bistro' then I can't wait to go. Stylist mag this week proclaimed it 'Coolest place in Britain' which may be a tad excessive. Have they not been to Peckham yet? Ra ha, If I weren' crying I'd laugh ;)
Evening Standard was a little more in depth with their review - here are the snippets I can be bothered to copy and paste. If you're in a rush then just read the words that I've made bigger it should be just enough to give you the idea. Yes, fashion twats and soft shell crab burgers. Yum my perfect dinner it seems.
King's Cross is full of wonders these days: The Filling Station, though, takes the biscuit. Where a singularly grubby petrol station used to be there’s a ghostly new structure of scalloped, translucent fibreglass abstractly copying the lines of an American gas stop From the road, you can’t tell what, if anything, it contains.

Flack and Waddington were fashion designers before becoming entrepreneurial restaurateurs in changing bits of the East End

People wandering in to investigate it soon start to smile. On Saturday evening, in that lovely light and heat, as the sun set, with the yellow flag irises in the canal glowing, a coot busying about, partying canal boats passing, it seemed an enchanted corner. 

The food is a fry-up, a stylised fry-up,  incorporating lots of buzzy Peruvian and Mexican ingredients (chipotle, chimichurri, humita, chicharron —massive teeth-snapping pork scratchings), but a fry-up nonetheless: diner food in excelsis.

starters include tuna tostada, ceviche with plantains and a sweetcorn chowder. Soft-shell crab burger (£16) is a monster signature dish — a whole slightly crunchy crab with its legs sticking out over the bun, 

Shrimpy’s is already rammed with desperate early-adopters. Fashiontossers, I think they’re called? I have never been in a place where people eyed each other up so much, almost insanely anxious to check out who else had got in. Who could they have all been? On Saturday, they included a guy in a shorty romper suit and a 6ft 7in lady with a microskirt, a blonde crop and ever so muscular arms. Such an addition to the gaiety of nations. Shrimpy’s couldn’t be more committed to that. A lovely place where there was nothing good before.

The King’s Cross Filling Station, Goods Way, N1 (020 8880 6111, shrimpys.co.uk). Open daily 11am-10.30pm (11pm Fri and Sat). Around £100/£120 for two.