Counter Culture
Located in the heart of Clapham Old town and next to the infamous The Dairy lies The Delicatessen, a small local deli which serves freshly made products and food for takeaway and home-use.
Counter Culture - The Dairy's naughty little brother, located just next door
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The Dairy | Seasonal British Restaurant in Clapham
Counter Culture: Best Restaurant in Clapham
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But when I read the fantastic review of their sister restaurant, Counter Culture, in Time Out last week, and managed to get three out of their 14 seats for dinner with my friend Guy who was visiting from LA, I couldn’t believe our luck.
The restaurant is adjacent to The Dairy and we sat at one of the two tables outside Counter Culture and had a drink as we waited for our seats to be ready.
When I went to the toilet at The Dairy (Counter culture is too small for one), I grabbed a menu to analyse for future visits, and ended up begging Coco to ask the kitchen next door if they would send two dishes over as Counter Culture had run out of the duck on the menu.
From The Dairy we had: Roast celeriac, sunflower seed, and almond milk: roulade of celeriac (one of my utmost favourite things ever and which Guy hadn’t tried) and seaweed with and almond milk cream and sunflower seed miso paste!
But not as blow-you-away as their other dishes.We wanted to go to The Dairy for dessert as they have more options but when we were done at Counter Culture, the kitchen at the Dairy had already closed.
Counter Culture | Laid Back Tapas From The Dairy Founders
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Counter Culture | Clapham Restaurant Restaurants with pun-based names always turnip sooner or later.
And that’s not a huge surprise, given that it’s an offshoot of Clapham’s vaunted, praised, and neighbouring The Dairy.
Billed as that restaurant’s “naughty little brother” the place is essentially one long snack bar, with white tile walls, and leather banquette seating running along the back wall.
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Without Bertha I’m not entirely sure my lunch at John Doe, just off London’s Portobello Road, would have been worth writing to anywhere about, let alone home.
The Josper uses only charcoal and, although in the right hands it can do good things to a good steak, cooking properly with wood is a different matter entirely.
I saw inside Bertha, a tall narrow cabinet with a lovely retro duck-egg blue finish, and it really does burn chunks of tree, the smell of which float out of the open kitchen, scent the air and infiltrate your clothes and hair.
I first experienced cooking of this sort at Asador Etxebarri in the Basque Hills above San Sebastián, where the chef fashioned his own implements to enable him to cook literally everything over different kinds of woods for different ingredients.
But it’s also a play on the word “doe”, as in a female deer, venison being a featured ingredient in their Scotch eggs, tartar, burgers and steaks.
Counter Culture | Restaurants in Clapham, London
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A counter restaurant spin-off to The Dairy, right next door.
Counter Culture is brilliant in the way that ‘The Simpsons’ is brilliant.
That’s the charm of this seemingly casual counter restaurant from the crew behind The Dairy (next door), The Manor (up the road) and Paradise Garage (in Bethnal Green).
Example: a dish of potato bread and nduja (salami paste), with a cultured cream dip.
To make it, they buy slabs of pork belly, strip the skin, salt-cure it, mince it, add a paprika marinade, put it into sausage skin (purely so it can be hung and smoked), let the flavour develop in the fridge for three days (using a meat culture), hang it, smoke it, split it open, bring it up to room temperature, hand-whip it then serve it.