Eat Out London!Pique-Nique
Located in Tanner St Park next to the tennis courts. Call us to book 020 7403 9549 - Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. Monday- Friday 12-11pm / Saturday 9am-11pm / Sunday 10am to 6pm
Pique-Nique Tanner Street Park, London SE1 3LD
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Pique-Nique restaurant, London - review - Decanter
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There’s a funny old building in the corner – that’s it.
But I hadn’t come for the decor, I’d come for the chicken.
One of us felt obliged to order the full chicken menu, but not before piling into a vol-au-vent of splendid extravagance overflowing with mushrooms and chicken boudin.
The £38 menu featured a pâté, croquette, consommé and two main dishes: the breast anointed with a creamy sauce with morilles and some outrageously good buttery mash; the thighs simply roasted with a salad.
There’s also a large table that would be perfect for birthday parties and other jolly get-togethers.
Casse-Croûte - Bistro serving authentic French classics
Pique-Nique, London — why it's drawing food lovers
Fay Maschler reviews Pique-Nique: Take your pick of French flair ...
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At more or less the moment the weather blooms — and before the drip, drip, drip of the raindrops — Hervé Durochat of the Bermondsey Street bistro Casse-Croûte opens Pique-Nique in what was a long-empty building in Tanner Street Park.
Menu Autour du Poulet de Bresse, which comes with a spread of first courses, a flourish of desserts and, as a centrepiece, the noble chicken roasted on a spit and served two ways, seems most in tune with the abstraction of picnic so we order that for £38 a head — a price not far from the retail cost of this Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée “queen of poultry… poultry of kings” (Brillat-Savarin).
A deep-fried croquette, a perfect sphere with a thin bone used for the “stalk” of the bonbon, is up first, then a scoop of creamy chicken liver pâté, a chance to make use of the excellent in-house breads — baguettes and loaves — but following that the only disappointment in the spread; consommé that looks to have been bolstered with Marmite or beefed up with Bovril.
Happiness is fully restored by a skin-on slice of chicken breast with creamy morel-studded sauce and a pile of incredibly rich, smooth-as-silk potato purée seemingly made with the Joel Robuchon recipe — almost as much butter as spud — in mind.
At an evening meal three of us try the short à la carte, sharing peaceably the three first courses between us.
Grace Dent reviews Pique-Nique: another place to be furious over ...
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ES Food Newsletter Ambience: 4/5 Food: 4/5 My brain, as you might imagine, is terrifically cluttered with memories of restaurants.
Hervé Durochat’s Casse-Croûte on Bermondsey Street, which regretfully I have not visited for about four years, lives on in my mind as one of London’s loveliest restaurants.
But if anyone asks me where to eat, last-minute, south of the river, I’ll say dreamily, ‘You could try Casse-Croûte, this tiny, perfect French place… but it’s small and just absolutely gorgeous, so you’ll probably not get in.’
45 must-try dishes in London restaurants My memories of Casse-Croûte are of balmy Saturday nights spent in this shack-like, modestly hewn, single room, applying my A-level French to the simple menu du jour chalked up on the blackboard, of demolishing pissaladière and mousse au chocolat, and if I’m honest, flirting with the young, Gallic male staff.
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Pique-Nique | Restaurants in London Bridge, London
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Pique-Nique is a charmingly traditional French restaurant in Bermondsey from the folks behind Casse-Croûte.
The bread, ever a useful French litmus test, was wonderful: both crunchy and chewy and, even better, slicked with an outrageous chestnut butter.
The châtaigne (chestnut) appeared twice: puréed and strung through the bird’s jus, and in miniature, desiccated and chewy.
It was a mass of brown, in a good way; autumn on a plate and quite satisfying.
It’s also refreshing in its knowing ignorance of modish small plates and trendy ingredients, and commitment to old-school flavours.