Eat Out London!Irvin Bar Grill
Irvin Bar Grill is a cosy local restaurant in Crouch End offering a jaunty mix of Italian cuisine, Scottish produce, lovely Italian wines and a great whisky list
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Irvin Bar Grill is a cosy neighbourhood restaurant in Crouch End, N8.
Our menu is a happy mix of modern Italian & Scottish produce & cuisine, Italian wines and some very good whiskies.
Our wines are all Italian, using only Italian grape varieties, mostly from small growers and chosen carefully for quality and variety.
Start with an aperitivo from the cocktail list, which includes some lovely Scottish gins and finish with a good whisk(e)y, perfect with a slab of Scottish tablet.
Seating is at the bar or at a table in the relaxed dining room.
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After 30-odd years behind a kit or a mixing desk, he has taken up a new position behind the bar, as the owner of a cosy little modern Italian diner in Crouch End, one of north London's artsier enclaves, famous among rock fans as the place where Bob Dylan once dropped into a local restaurant for a burger.
His new release is Irvin Bar Grill – Irvine seems to have dropped an "e" somewhere along the line, but hey, it was the 80s, everyone was at it.
When we turn up, on the tip-off of a friend, for an early Saturday night dinner, Irvine himself is behind the bar, mixing drinks.
Puddings include a dinner party-ish pistachio cake and a fine chocolate delice – plus, with good espressos, a naughty extra order of tablet, that super-sweet Scottish confection which has contributed so much to the dental problems of a nation.
We're done and dusted in under an hour, unlike the savvy locals who are packed in, staggering their food orders and working their way through the Italian wine list.
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Irvin Bar Grill - a cicchetti joint in Crouch End - opened rather under the radar a month or so ago.
They describe themselves as 'a happy marriage of cicchetti, Italian wines and a dash of Scottish flavour by way of our whisky list and accompanying delicacies'.
In practice that means a menu featuring fusion dishes like Parmesan shortbread and Venison pepperoni as well as cicchetti dishes like seared onglet with beetroot and pear (£10) chargrilled polenta (£2.50) and grilled squid with gremolata (£11).
The menu will be seasonal with dishes changing daily.
Irvin Bar Grill is now open at 43 Topsfield Parade, London N8 8PT.