Best places to munch a delicious Sunday roast
Clear your diary this Sunday and take in one of these badboys...
The Sunday roast: a tricky blighter to get right.
We're all haunted by the carveries of our earliest pub experiences. A dried old slab of pork, bendy crackling (actually a culinary crime), veg obliterated by the 7 hours of high pressure boiling... and "the trimmings": packet gravy and apple sauce courtesy of Cow & Gate.
Thankfully, things have changed. You can now look forward to the prospect of a meal on a Sunday (and not just the hangover banishing morning fry-up). London now boasts a bevy of roasts of which to be proud. Intimate pub surroundings, well-sourced meat, local and seasonal veg, gravy with a genetic association to the meat on the plate... and not a shard of bendy crackling in sight.
Clear your diary this Sunday and take in one of these badboys...
If you have ever eaten steak at one of Hawksmoor’s (Hawksmoor - Spitalfields, Hawksmoor – Guildhall or Hawksmoor – Seven Dials) restaurants the prospect of a roast should already have you salivating. When a place takes its beef this seriously all you need to do is book, turn up and enjoy one of the top roasts in London.
If you have ever eaten steak at one of Hawksmoor’s (Hawksmoor - Spitalfields, Hawksmoor – Guildhall or Hawksmoor – Seven Dials) restaurants the prospect of a roast should already have you salivating. When a place takes its beef this seriously all you need to do is book, turn up and enjoy one of the top roasts in London.
If you have ever eaten steak at one of Hawksmoor’s (Hawksmoor - Spitalfields, Hawksmoor – Guildhall or Hawksmoor – Seven Dials) restaurants the prospect of a roast should already have you salivating. When a place takes its beef this seriously all you need to do is book, turn up and enjoy one of the top roasts in London.
There’s something about the name ‘De Beauvoir’ that oozes class and sophistication, yet remains just a touch, playful. The good news for locals and roast hunters, The Scolt Head is a little of all that itself. Great for big groups, fine for intimate occasions and in possession of a large football room out back. The roast bests its weekday menu with great quality meat and a killer horseradish sauce.
The Garrison on Bermondsey Street is the kind of place you might take your in-laws to show them that London isn’t the lawless hinterland they read about in the newspapers. In fact, it’s a place where Sunday Roast can match the heights of the country pub, a meal is finished with a movie and pastel shades soothe while trinkets sparkle. Yes, The Garrison is all this and more.
Maybe it’s something about The Albion’s online menu closely resembling the style of Hawksmoor’s, but even before we took the chance to visit there were some good vibes flying around. At £17 for a beef roast, some might baulk, but The Albion on Thornhill Road does it all so well that that issue – and many others – seem to drift away as the food arrives. Maybe it’s the aged rib of longhorn beef, maybe it’s the triple cooked, duck fat potatoes, who can know? But it’s magical.
