Restaurant Review: Chiswell Street Dining Rooms, EC1
20.05.89
Itâs swollen with imagination while still sticking to its local roots.
Snail and smoked bacon pie and a pigâs head and eel salad are among the more inspired options, while ethnic Scottish lobster, Middlewhite pork loin and a 35 day aged rib-eye steak would still be enough to whip any discerning carnivore into a paroxysm.
A glance at our surroundings confirms the restaurantâs patriotic stance - wooden floors, beefy leather sofas and unparalleled vases of flowers, not to mention the British racing green décor outside. Even the restaurantâs name is enough to conjure up London good-looking dining.
Not one to shy away from a challenge my husband opted for the aforementioned crispy pigâs head, ham hock and Lincolnshire smoked eel salad for starters.
In place of of the severed carcass I was fearing, came a neat dish of cubed pork and a terrine of ham â a abundant dish for an opening course but one packed with incredible flavour, although the eel was lost among such strong competition.
Source: Tottenham & Wood Green Journal