Food

Intrigued to hear what you think. Just booked in for December..

saw a teaser photo of the menu up on their twitter (illegible however) but might wander past this evening and have a gander in preparation as I am off that way this eve anyways. will snap a pic if i do.

Hawksmoor for lunch today. Four of us had:

Potted beef & yorkshires
Belly pork ribs
Scallops

900g chateaubriand
950g bone in prime rib
2x dripping fries
2x triple cooked chips
Creamed spinach
Mac and cheese

Peanut butter shortbread
Sticky toffee pudding
2x salted caramel rolos

I might consider eating again on Monday. So lovely

Walked past Foxlow last night. Looks like a gorgeous place. Was pretty empty considering the soft launch was meant to be so over subscribed. Has anyone been yet?

No smoker just a Weber.

Spotted something useful for BBQ in Robert Dyas for £15; Heston probe meat thermometer that has nice long leads and alarms etc. you can set when it hits the temp you want. Has two probes and a split display so you can monitor two lumps of meat separately

http://www.robertdyas.co.uk/P~164344~Salter-Heston-Blumenthal-Dual-Probe-Thermometer-And-Timer

Making parkin.

you can keep your foxmoorlowhawkpopup muck - Hisar on lordship lane* is where you want to fucking be.

/*may include traces of east dulwich

Any reason why greenhell?

It's near to me, so am intrigued.

No smoker just a Weber.

Spotted something useful for BBQ in Robert Dyas for £15; Heston probe meat thermometer that has nice long leads and alarms etc. you can set when it hits the temp you want. Has two probes and a split display so you can monitor two lumps of meat separately

http://www.robertdyas.co.uk/P~164344~Salter-Heston-Blumenthal-Dual-Probe-Thermometer-And-Timer

They are also selling a domestic sous vide bath with a vacuum sealer for £130

http://www.robertdyas.co.uk/P~1475956~Buy-Giles-and-Posner-Sous-Vide-and-the-JML-Food-Sealer

Any reason why greenhell?

It's near to me, so am intrigued.

feels like a kebab shop from the outside and it's nothing special once you go in, like many restaurants up n down lordship lane it looks like it was last decorated in the carter administration. once you do you get fantastic, simple turkish BBQ, giganormous portions (get loads of starters and share a main), lovely people, family friendly and cheap.

Cheers for the sous vide link dubtap

^^can confirm Hisar is BAD BOY

They are also selling a domestic sous vide bath with a vacuum sealer for £130

http://www.robertdyas.co.uk/P~1475956~Buy-Giles-and-Posner-Sous-Vide-and-the-JML-Food-Sealer

Just spent all my bike money for a while , any of you tried the cooler box sous vide method?

Just spent all my bike money for a while , any of you tried the cooler box sous vide method?

No but have been stealing corn from the local fields and tried this.

Cooler box corn

foxlow yesterday was very good, definitely a lot of the hawksmoor vibe about it.

went with the gf, 6pt and tricitybendix and with the 50% food discount it came to about £134 including service charge, total would have been about £200 without it so roughly £50pp on a normal day.

went for the full 3 courses. I wont bore you with everyones meal choices but i had

pre-meal nibbles: sourdough, olive oil and some crumb thing which is like crushed bombay mix but more complex which you dip your bread into after the oil. very interesting.

starters: iberico baby back ribs, I was sulking because 6pt got more than me but they were very very good. decent amount of meat on them for a starter and brilliantly smoked.

mains & sides: went for a 250g deckle steak, sprouted broccoli with anchovy butter and chillis and skin on fries with bacon salt. we also got an unexpected portion of beef dripping potatoes which they didnt put on the bill when we asked why we'd got them (result).

steak was fucking amazing, not the glutton fest you get from one of the big cuts typical of the hawksmoor (they had portherhouses as well so I could have got a 950g for ~£45 but am trying to lose weight at the moment so thought better of it) the deckle though was so tender it was literal melt in your mouth type steak. so good. the sides were pretty good , the chips with bacon salt were interesting I thought they had a kind of sweetness to them and wouldn't have managed more than the portion size i got i dont think but went well with the meal, the greens were as you'd expect but very tasty, the beef dripping potatoes were ridiculously crispy and tasted like they'd been cooked in bovril but not in a bad way. they're kind of the culinary equivalent of roast beef monster munch, between me and 6pt they didn't get left for long.

dessert: bourbon caramel soft serve sundae (bourbon sauce comes on the side) this is the reason I am going for a long run today, but so worth it.

dessert 2: like the hawksmoor has their salted caramel rolos foxlow have salted caramel popcorn which comes tied up in a bag. saved my bag for today so it's waiting for after my run but tried some from 6pt and tbendix's and it too was also very good

service was good, aside from one dish being off the menu and the free extra side no problems whatsoever, they coat checked the tandem mandems panniers for them without a blink of an eye.

even without the discount I think it would have been well worth the money so reckon we'll be going back early next year once the menu's changed around a bit again.

on a side note toilets are individual closet room types marked either ladies or gents with one in the middle marked ladies and gents which i assume is aimed at the hermaphrodites of the world very forward thinking of them I say.

Lost me right about the 950g steak option [insert drooling_home.jpg here]; still that sounds like a mighty fine meal.

It's what I had last time for my birthday...

mrs_com and I share one of those every time we go to Hawksmoor

Oh man, not fair... ex is cooking vegetarian tonight.

@ Hatbeard, where did you get the 50% off voucher for Foxlows? I'd like to take the misses!

was a soft launch promotion you had to email on a specific date and time, first come first served. managed to bag a reservation but they had over 10k emails so was very lucky.

Cooked 3 course meal as a wedding anniversary present for my parents yesterday, but my sis and her husband, and my gf were there too.

Pre-meal "snack" was baked Camembert with sourdough bread

Starter was seared scallops with vierge sauce

I did two different mains
Roast fillet of sea bass with parsnip puree and caramelised garlic and shallots
Steak and chips
side of buttery garlic green beans

dessert was coffee and walnut cake

I don't want to think about cooking again for about a week.

I used a Michel Roux Jr recipe for the sea bass and there was far too many steps involved. Boiling garlic for 2 mins then drain and then boil again with new water. 5 times. I understand why, but it's effort.

Anyway, csb etc.

I'm a big fan of both the 'gourmet' burger craze, and of Breaking Bad, but this is just a bit... well...

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/gallery/2013/oct/30/television-breaking-bad#/?picture=421272221&index=0

I went it was great. The breaking bad element had everyone (myself included) way too excited over junk food. I now have a 'pollos' tub in prized position on my bookcase. I am incredibly proud of it for some reason..

All about horse-burgers on BBC R4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g8dg9

I like the sound of this...thought it might be of some interest to people on here.

http://www.thebloodyoyster.com/