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Social Eating House | Jason Atherton Restaurants
Social Eating House offers semi-private dining areas, as well as exclusive hire options, presenting the perfect venue for celebratory dinners, corporate networking & canape receptions.
THE CHEF’S COUNTER Capacity: Seated 8 Tucked away in the lower-ground kitchen area, our wrap around Chefs Counter is a fantastic opportunity to enjoy Michelin-starred food whilst watching the chefs at work – a unique experience not to be missed.
THE BLIND PIG Capacity: Standing 65 Located above Social Eating House, The Blind Pig is an award-winning bar offering a low-lit, stylish space for canape parties and cocktail receptions.
EXCLUSIVE HIRE Capacity: Seated 65 | Standing 120 Perfect for wedding dinners, family gatherings and special celebrations, Social Eating House is available for exclusive hire, giving you and your guests total privacy.
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The three in London are Michelin starred Social Eating House, located in Poland Street in Soho, is a joint venture between Jason Atherton and his wingman Paul Hood.
Later this year Atherton will open a fourth restaurant in London, Berner's Tavern at the new London Edition Hotel.Social Eating House, located in Poland Street in Soho, is a joint venture between Jason Atherton and his wingman Paul Hood.
Downstairs is the so-called 'Employees Only' chef's table, an 8-seat kitchen counter overlooking the kitchen of chef-patron Paul Hood.Paul Hood trained at the restaurant at Monte's, a private members club in Knightsbridge, at the time overseen by Jamie Oliver and Australian chef Ben O'Donoghue, The Glasshouse (one star) in London and Thackeray's (one star) in Royal Turnbridge Wells.
In 2010 they both left Maze and in 2011 Paul Hood became head chef at Jason Atherton's first solo-venture Pollen Street Social.Social Eating House is open for lunch and dinner Monday till Saturday.
A perfectly balanced dish with lovely clean flavours; the sharpness of the radish and mustard leaves matching the tartare wonderfully.My main course was a hefty dish of kombu lacquered Cornish cod, little gem lettuce, fresh peas, mousseron mushrooms, cockles and a cream sauce, finished with a drizzle of olive oil.
Social Eating House, London W1, restaurant review - Telegraph
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Social Eating House | Soho Restaurant Teasingly nestled between Milk Honey and Lucky Voice Karaoke in Soho (which is already a good start for anyone who enjoys playing “Let’s Have Fun”) lie two heavy, wooden doors.
Look above the door to the left, and you’ll spot an old street sign which says “Social Eating House”.
Enter, climb the stairs, and you’ll emerge into the Social Eating House’s first floor bar: a world of dark brown leather and concrete; of pork sliders and chipirones; of blues, barmen in braces and cocktails like the Cereal Killer, the Japanese Slipper and We Speak No Americano.
Now open, Social Eating House is taking reservations for both the restaurant and the bar, and is open each day from 12pm-12am.
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Jason Atherton continues to build his global restaurant empire with Social Eating House.
In London he now has the original Pollen Street Social, Little Social and this restaurant, while he currently also has three restaurants in Asia.
Social Eating House chef and part owner Paul Hood was previously head chef at the flagship Pollen Street Social, and has worked together with Jason previously for six years, including at Maze.
The wine list starts at £17 and includes wines such as Nero d'Avola Sherazade Donnafugata 2011 at £33 for a wine that you can find in a shop for £12, Syrah Weingut Weninger Sopron 2011 at £50 for a wine that you can find in the high street at £25, and an ambitiously priced Weinbach Cuvee Theo Riesling 2009 at £73 for a wine that you retails at around £19.
My main course was wild bream from Cornwall with artichoke barigoule, artichoke puree and saffron farfalle (bow tie pasta).
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CC and I had salt cod brandade (£4.50), presented in a jar with crisps poking out of it like a fast-food Stonehenge.
My main course – a pork chop with beetroot, savory, spring onion and white polenta (£18) – was dreary, though.
The vegetables were good, and the polenta was the purée texture rather than a fried block (which I can’t stand), but the chop was an inch thick and as dry as – nope, I’ve spent hours trying to find a simile for the dryness of dry meat, too proteiny for sawdust, too fibrous for sand or wood, and simply too dry to resemble anything but itself.
Only once I’d got over the marvel of that did I notice its wonderful flavour; I can’t think of any foods but almonds and honey that are at once so distinctive and so discreet.
Soft poached eggs wrapped in smoked salmon are breadcrumbed and deep-fried (£6.95), while roast poussin is stuffed with wild-garlic cream (£17.59) Enjoy an aperitif in the pretty garden, weather permitting, before moving into the front room of Anne and Neil Allen’s late-17th-century cottage for a dinner of, say, rose veal with a mushroom timbale and porcini cream (£48 for four courses) Whether you’re a lucky guest at this country hotel, or chance upon it after a lakeside ramble, the food – and its presentation – is sure to impress.
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And (a lonely voice, this) I don't love Ramsay alumnus Jason Atherton's Pollen Street Social.
Because the food, from Paul Hood, previously Atherton's head chef at Pollen Street and now a partner, is great.
Even bar snacks can't raise a sneer: perfectly crisp, fried chipirones with slivers of green chilli; and pork sliders – cushiony buns, pork with Chinese spicing, fine coleslaw.
It's a punchbowl of different ingredients that manages to end up being quintessentially Soho, with warm, assured service and wonderful food.
• Social Eating House 58 Poland Street, London W1, 020-7993 3251.
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Atherton's first solo venture in Mayfair, Pollen Street Social, gathered a devoted fan base and now, a few years later, come two more: a bistro called Little Social, which opened in March opposite the mother ship, and the more recent Social Eating House in Soho.
A salad of crab, lettuce and tomato – a little cringingly called a CLT – displayed that most virtuous of cheffy skills: the ability to make ingredients taste intensely of themselves, in this case the tomatoes.
Both the mains were grand notions – a tranche of hake with an Indian-spiced crust alongside roasted cauliflower; a piece of lamb's neck with potatoes whipped to within an inch of their lives, and spun through with ricotta alongside lots of garlic and parsley.
Desserts were mostly whipped things: a take on a brandy Alexander, with crisp bits of this and that beaten into the boozy cream and sugar; a chocolate mousse with a tidy little chocolate éclair filled with salted-caramel ice cream.
But the Social Eating House needs more than a little tuning to become the brilliant showcase it could be for a great cook's food.
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He followed this up, weeks later, with an even more ambitious restaurant in Soho, by delegating the chef role to his buddy and long-time head chef at Pollen Street Social, Paul Hood.
Smoked duck ‘ham’, egg and chips is a dish that’s typical of Pollen Street Social’s playfulness.
Umami – savouriness, the taste that enhances other flavours – was also plentiful in a roast cod main course that uses powdered Japanese kombu seaweed in a glaze, served with a creamy sauce of roasted cockles and just-in-season St George’s mushrooms.
A starter of ‘CLT’ – crab meat, a fan of blonde castelfranco radicchio leaf, and heritage tomatoes, which had been blanched to remove the skin, was given a further umami hit with a roast tomato vinaigrette.
If you visit the basement (where the duck smoker as well as the loos are housed), this will give you a chance to look straight through the glass-walled private dining room towards the kitchen, which is in full view of the ‘chef’s table’.