The Pineapple

Do you need a break from the hustle and bustle of London? Visit our Irish pub near Waterloo Station and relax in a friendly, comforting atmosphere.

The Pineapple: Irish Pub Waterloo | Take a Break from London

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The Pineapple, 53-55 Hercules Road SE1 7DZ

Restaurant Review: The Don, EC4

The City culinary institution, The Don, has had a 21st-Century revamp The Don Restaurant is old-school City, harking back to the days when no one lived in the area – the restaurant still closes for the weekend and is hidden away in a courtyard down St Swithin’s Lane.

Frederick Forster was, earlier this year, named as the new executive head chef.

Forster is one of only a handful of chefs to have won both National Chef of the Year and the feted Roux Scholarship, the second of which while he was head chef at The Ritz, under the tutelage of John Williams (himself a chef-of-the-year winner).

The wine list has won a Wine Spectator Award for being one of the best in the world every year since the restaurant opened, and it’s not hard to see why, as the ‘wine walls’ can attest to the care the sommeliers have taken in curating the collection.

Morale is obviously high at The Don.

The Pineapple: Pub in Dorney | Dog Friendly Pub

The Pineapple is a Grade II listed 15th Century pub located in Buckinghamshire’s most southerly village, close to the Thames in Dorney, boasting the Olympic rowing lake and the Jubilee River nature reserve.

Not only do we have the low-beamed look of a 15th-century roadside inn and roaring open fires, we also owe our name to the fact that Britain’s first pineapple was grown 200 yards away in the village of Dorney and presented to King Charles II in 1661 as an alternative to Nell Gwynn’s oranges.

With our award winning Sandwich menu comes real ales and a confident wine menu and extra helpings of history.

Our food is served all day everyday With a fine selection of real ales a superb cider menu and delicious Sunday Roast, we even have a secure garden and decking area so you can bring the kids, and don’t forget, the dog is welcome too.

There’ll be a bowl of dog treats waiting on the bar!

James Cochran EC3 Restaurant Review: Inventive Sharing Plates in ...

On top of the many delights of FIX, James Cochran has also been part of a very successful pop-up over the summer on Great Windmill Street in conjunction with B.Y.O.C. With all the praise from that Summer experience, the new James Cochran EC3 was born.

Dishes such as James’s signature treacle cured smoked salmon is a must.

Once for it being excellent and second for witnessing some truly spectacular footwear by front of house, Ross – who has been working with James from the beginning.

Star dish of the whole meal was the lamb neck and haunch, Jerusalem artichokes, smoked creme fraiche and hemp seeds – it was one of those dishes you could smell the moment it’s  put down and front of you and simply made you squirm a “wow” with your first mouthful.

If you’re looking for a slightly cooler, more exciting eating experience and fed up with suited and booted City dining – than James Cochran EC3 is the perfect evening escape and with some pretty fine food too which won’t cost you the earth.

Eneko at One Aldwych Restaurant Review - Adventures of a London ...

Disclaimer: We were invited guests of Eneko at the One Aldwych Hotel, but all thoughts, flavour opines and misuse of Spanish are entirely our own.

Eponymous chef Eneko Atxa is the man behind Azurmendi in Bilbao, the three Michelin-starred restaurant voted no. 16 in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants.

My dinner date however chose the dish of the night – recommended by the charming waitress – a crispy corn talo, crowned with incredibly flavoured heritage tomatoes, basil emulsion and a forest of greenery, giving the dish a wonderfully fresh and vibrant taste of summer.

It was counterpointed nicely with a side of piperade a typical Basque dish; slowly cooked pepper, onion, green peppers, and tomatoes.

I loved the fresh, zesty pineapple sorbet served with celery foam, sweet celery ribbons; whilst my date (OK, and I if we are being hotels) tucked into the Torrija, the Iberian answer to French toast of a basque vanilla sponge and delectable caramel crumble ice cream.

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The bhaji had quite subdued parsnip flavour and little spice, but the herb tartlet was pleasant and the parfait was smooth and had good liver flavour (average 15/20).

Chilled foie gras with slices of pineapple, puy lentils and ginger bread sauce was not a particularly pretty dish, but the lentils had good texture, and the pineapple gave balance to the foie gras (16/20).

The scallop was very nicely timed and had excellent inherent sweetness, nicely balanced by the acidity of the lime, with the radish and tuile adding textural contrast: a well-balanced dish with a high quality central ingredient (easily 17/20).

A “Bounty” dessert of coconut ice cream, chocolate crumb and coconut cream seemed to me a little dry, with too much crumb relative to the rest of the dish elements, though it was otherwise nice enough (14/20).

Coffee was good quality (Musetti), served with a quartet of petit fours: white chocolate truffle with sherry vinegar, pineapple lollipop with fennel seed caramel, a ginger and white chocolate fudge and a mini lemon curd tart.

Gul & Sepoy, Whitechapel, restaurant review: Indian small plates ...

The team behind Spitalfields’ Gunpowder have diverged from more standard Indian culinary paths, to bring their sometimes frustrating but ultimately rewarding dishes to East London Coming in through the snow into Gul & Sepoy’s sandy, Tatooine-esque interior on Commercial Road, I’m met with a rush of incense, Indian spices and, therefore, excitement.

The restaurant, launched by the team behind ‘home-style’ Indian kitchen Gunpowder in Spitalfields, is more froufrou than its predecessor, and is loosely structured around a two-tiered system inspired by both regal North Indian cooking, and food more commonly enjoyed by foot soldiers.

My dining partner’s chilli and cardamom margarita has a strong, rich sweetness, and my beer, Forest Road Brewery’s IPA, Work, has found its spiritual home here: paired with Indian food, its bitter quench makes perfect sense.

If the pig head is comfortingly familiar to omnivores, the same is true for veggies and this dal – the slow build-up of spice through the lentils and rice is classic coastal Indian, with the pineapple singing through on top, enlivening but not masking a great dish.

The whole soft shell crab is overwhelmed a bit by the amount of batter, and comes with an aubergine and tomato pachadi (an Indian term that refers to food that has basically been pounded into mush) that doesn’t really cut through.

The Pineapple, London NW5, pub review

Funny name for a pub built in 1868.

Pineapples were about as common in north London then as champagne in the pit villages of South Yorkshire.

But “the pineapple has been seen as a symbol of welcome ever since they were brought here,” I’m told by Poppy Wheldon, the very welcoming licensee.

Luckily, the regulars mobilised.

Happy Christmas from English Heritage.

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