The Quality Chop House (Clerkenwell)

• There has been a restaurant in that same building with the same name for the majority of time since 1869
• Pig scratchings would have been even better with an apple sauce dip
• A crabcake was perhaps a bit light on the good stuff for £
• Once you got over the mess (finger bowls were provided) you realised the lamb had a great flavour and were perfectly cooked to just pink
• Longhorn mince on dripping toast was everything it promised to be
• A straightforward but deeply satisfying plate of loose meat on a thick slab of sourdough made soggy with cooking juices
• There was no room to pick fault with these lamb sweetbreads though
• Sauces like this are the reason I eat out
• It slots so happily into the London dining scene it's like it's been here for the best part of 150 years
• Whether at home and faced with the meagre offerings from the tail end of the week&rsquo
• S full of old world charm and that type of shabby chic floral bijoux crockery that in the hands of the wrong host and along with a room full of kitsch chintz can be utterly nauseating
• Great textures were found in the smooth
• Che and dense rye linked pinkies and promised to be best friends forever
• Soft and gamey slow cooked partridge leg meat was re shaped and breaded around the bone into pleasing spheres
• The plate of earthy wild mushrooms with an effortlessly glossy chicken liver parfait had a few sails of crisp chicken skin at the centre and tasted even better than that reads
• With a great sense of celebration and sharing that family Sunday lunches do so well (even though it was Wednesday)
• The side of kale was vibrant and well seasoned
• The plates were cleared in their entirety
• Flaked almonds and ice cream was the sort of dessert you could have three of
• The cheeses were bold and British
• Petit fours were dark chocolate covered honeycomb bites
• Essentially high end Crunchie and what the hell is not to love about that
• Next door to that is their Food Shop and Butchers selling all manner of stock from British cheeses and charcuterie to their own produce
• The Quality Chop House is a rare breed
• I like The Quality Chop House (Clerkenwell) very much the food is great so is the wine
• The building itself is an old workers cafe that has been converted into a restaurant
• Our waiter was really charming and kept checking that everything was fine with our meal
• We shared a starter of pastrami and pickles which were both home made and very tasty
• The Quality Chop House was built in the 1870s as a working man&rsquo
• As is the building) are still a tight squeeze
• More important than the name is the intention to stick to the principle of providing good
• At lunch the menu was short with three choices at each course
• At dinner there is a slightly longer menu
• Or to drink with the meal at a £
• Since the takeout price is by no means always the typical retail price
• By any standards these are fair mark up levels for a London restaurant
• Will doubtless attract people who like to drink well with their dinner
• Chestnuts and pancetta was a suitably hearty dish for this cold November day
• The Brussels sprouts themselves were distinctly on the al dente side of things
• Much better was chicken leg with kale and wild mushrooms
• The chicken was carefully cooked
• Trompette) were very good (14/20)
• Poached pears in yoghurt were also cooked so that a good texture resulted
• The notes below are of experiences under the old regime
• A starter of seared scallops with chilli and garlic sounded better than it really was
• The coral left on and were rather overcooked
• The slightly spicy salad with the scallops was fine
• The main event was rather a let down (11/20)
• A signature dish here is the salmon fishcake with sorrel sauce (I doubt this is a knowing reference to the famous salmon and sorrel dish at Troisgros
• Rich fishcake with a creamy sorrel sauce
• Haddock and chips was a somewhat small portion of haddock whose batter was cooked a little longer than ideal
• The fish tasted fine and the mushy peas with it were the real thing
• The following are brief notes from a meal in March 2006
• Also gravadlax with mustard sauce
• Best dish is the salmon fish cake with sorrel sauce
• The seating is on communal wooden benches
• Though there are so many candidates here that it would be by no means a certainty
• It managed to pull off some excellent British classics using fine ingredients which is a rare quality these days
• The service was also smart and friendly which was a real big plus
• The Quality Chop House is a historical restaurant dating back to the 19 th Century when it used to be a place for working men to get the chop of the day
• As I thought it was very charming
• The drink delivery was running late
• So the wine list was pretty limited
• We had the pigeon with foie gras which was really excellent
• Wine selection was also solid
• The decor of the restaurant is also quite pleasant and cozy
• A chop house is a British traditional dating back over a century
• They were places for people (men) to talk business over traditional hearty food washed down with fine wine and beer
• It's great for a dinner out to experience British history with a hint of a modern twist
• S doors after hearing praise for it while we were still living in Australia
• The Quality Chop House is a Dining Room
• Have visited twice in the past two weeks and both time was totally blown away by the quality of the food
• Great wine list too with lots of variety and plenty at reasonable (£
• I never had the chance to go for dinner at The Quality Chop House before as it was always packed every time I walked past
• I really liked the decoration of the whole room with black and white tiles on the floor
• While I decided to kick off this dinner with a fresh Scottish langoustine
• Pistachio terrine served with some Pommery mustard and two lucky people managed to get the two last plates available of morcilla
• The morcilla was tasty and earthy and went very well with the duck egg
• The mince came with some bread and watercress and was delicious as it sopped up all the great flavour from the dish
• It was the best piece of duck breast I ever had in terms of quality
• This breast was ridiculously perfectly cooked
• Their confit potatoes are one of their signature dishes and if you try them you will surely know why it's a 'must try' dish
• This restaurant is my idea of the ideal place to spend an evening with friends (or maybe a romantic dinner on a different occasion)
• I loved the fact there is nothing extravagant in The Quality Chop House (Clerkenwell)
• The decoration is old and traditional
• The service was faultless and our waitress was very friendly and not intrusive
• The Quality Chop House is a restaurant and butcher on Farringdon Road
• We chose to dine here because we were a couple of weeks into game season and I was dying to eat grouse somewhere
• The restaurant sits in a 19th Century Grade II listed building and is still configured in it's original design
• I always did find myself regarding with particular suspicion objects that described themselves as gold
• Every meal is a celebration

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