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New Restaurant Review: Comensal | Londonist

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This neighbourhood Mexican eatery has arrived on the same stretch of Clapham’s Abbeville Road that also includes Bistro Union, Newton’s, La Bonne Heure and Abbeville Kitchen; an independent restaurant quarter in an otherwise residential area.

Not because there’s any lack of appeal among the array of tacos, enchiladas and so on, but because the restaurant’s website and promotional material had banged on with such strength about Comensal’s modern, authentic and different approach that we were expecting something a little more unusual.

There was a time not so many years ago, in the dark days before Wahaca and other excellent and authentic Mexican restaurants, that the slowly-cooked and richly earthy frijoles served at Comensal would have been exotic.

Here it’s labelled as the chef’s signature dish, coming in the form of a chicken breast slathered in the mole sauce and served with Mexican red rice.

A meal at Comensal is certainly no worthy eight-hour bus ride, but rather a soaring flight of fancy through some of Mexican cuisine's greatest hits.

The best breakfasts and brunches in Clapham and Battersea

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Here’s our pick of the best places for a fantastic breakfast and brunch in Clapham and Battersea 1  Balans Soho Society Enjoy too much of a good thing at Balans Soho Society in Clapham.

Eat from their award-winning all-day menu, which includes some pretty amazing breakfast options, from Steak & Eggs (skirt steak, Balans potatoes, two eggs any way, £13) to Breakfast Burrito (spiced scrambled eggs in a toasted flour tortilla, sour cream, salsa fresca, £7.50), Kedgeree (smoked haddock, spiced basmati rice, peas, poached egg, £9) and The Soho Full English (sausage, bacon, field mushroom, grilled tomato, two eggs any way, Balans potatoes, toast, £10).

25 The Pavement, Clapham SW4 OJA; 020 762 72176; tartlondon.com 10 Powderkeg Diplomacy, Battersea Victorian-themed bar and restaurant Powderkeg Diplomacy on Battersea’s St John’s Hill has an impressive weekend brunch menu featuring no fewer than six takes on the Bloody Mary – a hangover cure for many.

147 St John’s Hill, Battersea SW11 1TQ; 020 7450 Bistro Union, Clapham Popular neighbourhood restaurant Bistro Union is open for brunch starting Friday.

31 Abbeville Road, Clapham SW4 9LA; 020 341 7305; labonneheure.co.uk 13 Fantasia, Clapham Old Town It’s neither new nor luxurious but for breakfast Fanstasia, a Clapham Old Town stalwart, does not disappoint.

Best Places To Eat In Clapham, London

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Launched by husband and wife Robin and Sarah Gill in November 2014, The Manor, together with sister branch The Dairy, is at the forefront of the Clapham restaurant revolution.

The Manor offers a refreshing dining experience full of unusual flavour combinations and dishes that appear to have their very own colour palette.The cauliflower, grue de cacao, medjool dates, and kefir, and the hay-smoked pigeon, fermented grains, parsnip, and hemp granola are not to be missed.

One of the newer additions to Clapham’s dining scene, WC – or WC Wine & Charcuterie as it is more formally known – is housed in a 100-year-old ‘water closet’.

The Dairy is similar to its sister restaurant The Manor (also in Clapham) in that it serves seasonal British food but here there is a stronger vegetarian offering – no doubt thanks to the produce grown on their roof – with the likes of Grezzina courgette, ricotta and pumpkin seed praline and Grelot onion, polenta and summer veg sitting alongside their land and sea dishes.

The main Trinity is Michelin-starred and offers more of a fine dining experience, with a considerable wine cellar and a four-course dinner menu, featuring plates like young grouse with sweetcorn polenta, elderberries and lardo, and chocolate and hazelnut delice with amaretti and cherry sorbet.

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