Heirloom Restaurant

Heirloom Restaurant

Heirloom is a seasonal British restaurant in Crouch End, serving dinner through the week, one of the best brunches in North London, and roast dinner every sunday

Heirloom - Crouch End

Heirloom is a Modern British restaurant in Crouch End.

This winter we will be delving into the larder of seasonal British and European ingredients — game from the North Yorkshire Moors, Cornish fish and seafood, locally-grown squash and brassicas — to present inventive small and large plates big on earthy flavour and warming comfort.

We hope to share winter’s best with you soon.

http://www.heirloomn8.co.uk

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Cheese and Biscuits: Pidgin, Hackney

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A few weeks ago I was invited to a wild mushroom dinner at Heirloom restaurant in Crouch End.

Running any restaurant takes effort, and pulling together the myriad things that need to go right (building works, fixing suppliers, finding staff) as well as avoiding all the potential disasters (power failures, extraction systems giving up, flooding), along with - yes - finding a location with a population of locals willing to spend £35-40 a-head-with-a-glass-of-wine, none of these things are easy.

And I'm taking nothing away from the efforts of James (Ramsden, an old friend of mine but don't let that put you off) and Sam (Herlihy, friend podcast partner), or any of their staff, who are obviously all very good at what they do and in Pidgin have found a way of making a relatively tricky site work (this is where the late, lamented Mayfields was) and have themselves a very successful new neighbourhood restaurant.

There's every chance Pidgin would have been a very good restaurant without Allen in the kitchen.

The thing about a no-choice menu with a predictable number of covers per night is that it lets a kitchen produce dishes like this Beef Wellington, which usually require a group of people willing to participate, as part of normal dinner service.

Heirloom review – Crouch End's hidden gem | The Picky Glutton

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The kitchen apparently sources vegetables from its own farm and prefers to use rare-breed meats and ingredients that are in season, an approach similar to the one purported at Fera at Claridge’s and other restaurants besides.

Although the latter didn’t really compliment the distinctly nutty taste of the hazelnuts, it was at least an interesting contrast in bold flavours.

Chewy, nutty granola was a little out of place next to a tender fillet of deer cooked rare, but the beefy tang of the meat was still delicious – especially when paired with the mild sweetness of beets.

Given the surprisingly low price of the tasting menu, it really makes very little sense to go a la carte – especially as the kitchen will offer to accommodate your dietary requirements.

Choosing four courses a la carte costs almost the same as the seven course tasting menu and the small portions are really designed to be taken as part of a multi course meal.

Heirloom N8 a Crouch End Gem | WINE FOR SOUL

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Now, since my grand daughter Eliya, was born, about 20 months ago (she resides in Crouchy) I find myself walking the streets pushing her in her pushchair watching the wonder of a neighborhood awakening, in a triangle around the Crouch End Broadway’s clock tower, new dinning options appear like mushrooms after the rain, increasing in quality and diversity to meet a demand of young families who flock the hood.

My daughter Daphne keeps me posted regarding new culinary venues in the area and about 20 months ago, I was told of a new restaurant serving British style modern food using mainly British traditional products; ‘Heirloom’.

Here they serve Rare-breed meats and heritage (Heirloom) vegetables (these are as you know, old-time varieties, open-pollinated (not hybrid), that are saved and handed down through multiple generations of families, fruits and vegetables on the verge of extinction) Heirloom products are “homegrown” by the restaurant’s Produce Director / co-owner David Macintosh in his farm in Buckinghamshire, and some of the other fruits, vegetables, herbs & leaf, which form the major part of their daily changing menus, are collected from small farmers still growing oddities which can not be found in your local supermarkets.

Here at Heirloom, they are serving daily specially sourced products from Dexter beef, wild boar, or game birds: Pigeons, Guinea fowl, Partridges season’s grouse and wild ducks, odd traditional vegetables and hand picked wild mushrooms in season.

this is not a starred restaurant this is a team of young chefs cooking good solid sensible food, adorned by good imagination and lots of love and care, after all what else do you need.

Fay Maschler reviews Heirloom | London Evening Standard

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Heirloom | Restaurants in Crouch End, London

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A modern British restaurant in Crouch End that offers seasonal cooking with homegrown vegetables, rare-breed meats and a selection of craft beer and wine.

It hoists the flag for modern British cooking by plating up heritage vegetables, succulent rare-breed meats and Cornish fish, serving them with British craft beers and Old World wines.

On our Sunday lunch visit, classic roasts were the order of the day, and included the likes of Old Spot pork, Belted Galloway beef and braised Blackface lamb.

A la carte choices might include roast monkfish partnered with sea-salty samphire and Jersey cream-enriched mash, or smoked gammon hock with duck egg and sucrine lettuce.

Puddings read like something from Enid Blyton – treacle loaf with raspberries and Jersey cream, or plum trifle steeped in port-like Maury – though the Famous Five would have had adventures of a different order after a dalliance with Maury.

Heirloom

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Three courses and a seasonal cocktail at this quaint, modern British eatery in N8.

This smart-looking, Crouch End spot is a real neighbourhood dining destination.

And it’s not just the surroundings that will impress: this place also serves up some of the finest modern British cuisine our fair city has to offer (peruse the menu below and we’re sure it’ll get you drooling).

And good quality, honest indulgence like this doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg – with today’s offer, three courses and a seasonal cocktail will set you back just £19.

Sample romesco, Amalfi lemon, smoked almonds Jerusalem artichoke soup, crisps, herb oil (v) Monks beard, mussels, smoked ham, cider Goose ham, grapes, oca root, dandelion Mains: Cod, shrimp, kohlrabi, brown butter Pork belly, turnip, Yorkshire rhubarb, fennel Crispy duck leg, braised Puy lentils, roast carrot Gnocchi, truffle cream, Manchego, rainbow kale (v) Venison, miso, shimeji, fried shallot, pickled carrot Puddings: Lemon posset, blood orange, candied pecan Bread & butter pudding, pear, cinnamon ice cream 5 British cheeses, chutney, oatcakes

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