Dry-Aged Sirloin
from$34.00Aged 45 days on the bone, grilled over charcoal, rested under bone marrow butter with dripping potatoes alongside.
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From the Kitchen
Aged 45 days on the bone, grilled over charcoal, rested under bone marrow butter with dripping potatoes alongside.
Baked hot and fast so the top blackens and the middle stays loose.
The Menu
Morning · Small Plates · The Grill · Sides · Puddings · Drinks
Baked at six, served until noon.
Two thick slices from yesterday's bake, house churned butter and whatever fruit we put up last summer.
Serves 1 · 5 min
Stack of three, maple syrup poured at the table, salted butter melting into the middle.
12 min
Two eggs, thick rye toast, wilted spinach, a spoon of hollandaise.
10 min
Shareable plates to begin.
Blistered in the pan, finished with flaked salt and lemon oil. One in ten is hot.
8 min
Feta whipped with cream, thyme honey, toasted pistachio, warm flatbread.
7 min
Semolina crust, fried to order, with a lemon aioli and pickled chilli.
14 min
Sliced tomatoes, basil oil, aged sherry vinegar, a snow of frozen goat's curd.
6 min
Whipped with crème fraîche and horseradish, served with rye crisps and cornichons.
5 min
Pressed with pistachio and thyme, pickled prunes, toasted brioche.
5 min
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Charcoal, smoke and patience.
Aged 45 days on the bone, grilled over charcoal, rested under bone marrow butter with dripping potatoes alongside.
Serves 1 · 25 min
Brined overnight, grilled skin-side down until the fat renders, finished with chilli butter and charred lemon.
Serves 1 · 30 min
Slow roasted for six hours until it falls apart, harissa and yoghurt, flatbread to tear.
Serves 2 · 40 min
Cooked whole over charcoal, fennel and lemon in the cavity, salsa verde spooned over.
Serves 1 · 22 min
Coarse ground chuck and short rib, aged cheddar, pickles, mustard mayo, milk bun.
16 min
Halved and grilled cut-side down, miso butter, crispy shallots.
18 min
Twelve hours in the smoke, glazed with burnt onion and molasses.
35 min
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Quick over the coals, chimichurri, burnt spring onion.
Serves 1 · 18 min
Everything is better with something alongside.
Cooked three times, salted twice, served in paper.
12 min
Seasonal greens wilted in brown butter with a squeeze of lemon.
8 min
Cold, crisp leaves, anchovy dressing, sourdough croutons.
6 min
Semolina crust, rosemary, sea salt.
10 min
Made in the morning, served after dark.
Baked hot and fast so the top blackens and the middle stays loose.
Serves 1 · 5 min
Seventy per cent chocolate, buckwheat shell, crème fraîche on top.
5 min
Set buttermilk cream with poached forced rhubarb and shortbread rubble.
5 min
Vanilla ice cream drowned in a double espresso.
3 min
Coffee from a roaster two streets away, wine from growers we know.
Single origin, brewed by the jug, refills at no charge.
Two ristretto shots, silky milk.
Loose leaf, brewed for four minutes, served with a strainer.
Fermented on the shelf behind the bar, lightly sparkling.
Dry, cold and unfiltered, poured from the keg.
Ask what is open today. It changes with the weather.
Bitter herbs, soda, a wide strip of orange peel.
House cordial, soda, mint.
Squeezed to order.