Clutch (Bethnal Green)

• T accompanied by a dangerous dog you were very much in the minority
• Partly because I am not the target demographic for a far right drinking den on Hackney Road but mainly because Sager and Wilde is so bloody good
• When it too finally succumbed to the creeping gentrification from nearby Columbia Road and was billed to reopen as a &ldquo
• Best of the two mains was a roast of sorts
• That picture is exactly how it was presented
• Not just by a bit the dried chilli was black and acrid
• Crust (as some wag pointed out when I shared my lunch on Twitter) was some slimy poached chicken but getting to it involved so much digging I soon gave up after unwrapping just one piece of thigh
• Even more distressing was the fact the chicken itself and this applied to the roast too was actually of fairly good quality
• For that we were most grateful
• 25 without service this is not a cheap place
• The service makes you feel like an inconvenience and there are better places (this is East London remember) within a minute&rsquo
• I was pleasantly surprised to see that Clutch has a personality all of its own and is a whole lot more refined than expected
• Or they took his words to heart because both me and my boyfriend thought the whole meal was a fantastic experience
• Clutch does chicken a lot of it and a lot of it with Oriental influences
• Spicy and sour chilli and each was moreish and spot on
• Pretty decor with sunny yolk yellow touches to the tabletops and tableware
• Stuffing with gravy was good but a little uneven
• The bucket was slightly overcooked and dry
• The lime salad was a simple salad with a sharp citrus y vinaigrette
• The beetroot salad was the star of the show
• I guess the gravy was useful for moistening the somewhat dry bucket of chicken
• The serving staff were gracious about packing up the leftovers which will make an excellent lunch
• This was my second visit to clutch so I was hoping that the first one was a disappointing one off
• Coleslaw and cob were all delicious the chicken was underwhelming and slimy
• As this has happened to me twice I can only assume that the chicken is always prepared in this way
• I went for the sweet version which was absolutely delicious
• Clutch (Bethnal Green) is in my good books for such sheer simplicity
• The service here is pretty great and the food delicious
• Getting a table here is pretty quick which is just perfect for the weekend
• I recently tries Clutch (Bethnal Green) and was quite impressed with it
• The food was really good and was cooked to perfection
• The atmosphere was pretty decent with wonderful music playing in the background
• The service was pretty quick
• The food here is delicious and the portions are rather big
• I've sampled the best barbecue sauce here
• The service is also brilliant making all of the food so enjoyable
• The service is abominable
• I am surely visiting Clutch (Bethnal Green) if someone else is paying for me
• The quality of chicken offered here is very good and menu is also quite an extensive if you are chicken lover
• The setting is quite lovely and the food that I tried was absolutely delicious
• The service was top notch and I strongly recommend you to try Clutch (Bethnal Green) some time
• With a service staff which is extremely friendly
• We learned that this was where the bar was
• The prices are high and the food unbearable
• We started with a few cocktails
• The flavour was quite bitter
• It was quite lovely with the chicken
• The spicy chicken wings were indeed VERY spicy
• Served with a hot sauce that mounted in heat with every bite
• It was served with loads of chopped chillies on top
• The beet salad was compelling an assortment of beets
• Definitely a fun place to visit with a group open to sharing
• Menu scribbled down on a chalkboard was brought over to our table
• I have booked a table with three friends to eat there again this evening
• The rare breed free range chicken is fried in Ground Nut Oil and organically sourced from a farm in Wiltshire
• The exceedingly thin pencil fries were underwhelming
• T stop eating until there were only bones on the table
• We started with a selection of 'Love Me Tenders' boneless breast fillets which are marinated and fried before being lathered in a variety of sauces of which the sweet soy garlic was my favourite
• (fried legs and thighs) which both went down well with the honey sesame wings and peppery buttermilk legs and thighs proving to be highlights
• Having finished the meal and sitting back with my double chocolate brownie dessert (which was awesome)
• I reflected on a meal which can at best be described as OK
• There was nothing especially wrong with the meal but at the same time
• There was nothing that was overly inspiring
• With a cocktail list which is longer than the food menu
• The London fried chicken boom is so 2014 and late
• This along with Chick 'n' Sours and Chicken Shop were the originators of the London Chicken Scene and now we have Mother Clucker
• The Chicken mark up is so good and so many wonderful things can be done to this meat
• The drinks to choose from were prosecco punch (read prosecco with cranberry juice or pomegranate depending on which staff you asked)
• Insisted there was a bottle on each jug
• Quite spicy if anything but they did taste like there was some alcohol in them
• When you pay for 'boozy brunch' with bottomless drinks for 2 hours

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