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Clerkenwell Kitchen
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WINNER - BEST SUSTAINABLE RESTAURANT
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The Clerkenwell Kitchen
This super eaterie, tucked between Farringdon and Clerkenwell Roads, serves delicious, fresh, seasonal food at fair prices. The furnishings are simple: plenty of wood, windows and white walls with architectural seating and lighting. In the warmer months, the outdoor decked terrace comes into play. Before opening the Kitchen, its two owners, Helen Gray and Emma Miles, worked at the Eyre Brothers restaurant in Shoreditch and for Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall at River Cottage in Dorset, respectively. The open kitchen serves breakfast (anything from a bowl of muesli to big bacon and egg constructions) through to afternoon tea (own-made brownies, muffins, pastries, delicious lemon tarts). At lunchtime you can pick up a takeaway (freshly made soup, perhaps, or a luxuriously creamy courgette and parmesan tart with a lentil, mint and beetroot salad) or sit down for the works. Each day there are six dishes offered, such as honey-roasted gammon, roasted carrots and parsley sauce, or fish stew with squid, mussels, chorizo and croûtons. A decent glass of red or white will cost an additional £3.75. Your fellow diners will likely be as sleek and stylish as the surroundings; many of them hail from nearby architectural practices and workshops.
Time Out Eating & Drinking Guide 2009
Time Out reviews restaurants anonymously and pays for meals. Of course, we cannot guarantee the accuracy or independence of user reviews.
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- 27-31 Clerkenwell Close, Clerkenwell, EC1R 0AT
- Area: Clerkenwell
- Tel: 020 7101 9959
- Website
- Category: Cafes
- Travel: Angel tube/Farringdon tube/rail
- Times: Open 8am-5pm Mon-Wed, Fri; 8am-midnight Thur
- Price: Main courses £4.50-£14
- Credit cards: MC, V
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Had a fab lunch, very relaxed, but busy. Fresh, tasty as ever and great value.
I love this place - it's the perfect lunch destination - and have introduced it to many friends and colleagues. Everything is very simply and freshly done, allowing you to taste the food for what it's meant to be. The two guys that work in there are always really friendly and polite, and it's excellent value for money. I'd go here every day if I could afford to!
Today me and my partner went to The Clerkenwell Kitchen for a lunch and we had the most delicious chicken pie we've ever had!!!! Perfect in every way!! We were quite hungry so we order a gorgeous side of very creamy mash and another of perfectly cooked asparagus!! Despite of being extremely busy, especially on take away - which I find great if you cannot get a table - the service was great and we are definitely going back there!!
we were looking for the house of detention but ended up trying out this lovely place. we never had organic food in ohio and we absolute loved it!
both the lovely girl and guy that served us were very helpful and patient with our ignorance on English food and we felt really welcome! definately having lunch there again when back in london!!!!
i would like to respond to feedback from Caitlin and Julie. I am with Laura one of the owner/chefs at The Clerkenwell Kitchen.I would like to apologise for the bad experience that you had here, as we do really try hard to offer value for money in a friendly environment. We are dealing witth all of your comments and talking to f.o.h staff. If you would like to come in for lunch again or supper on a Thursday evening perhaps we could redress the balance. Again apologies. Emma Miles.
Great food, the onglet and bone marrow was delicious went on a thursday night very relaxed atmosphere and friendly staff.
Absolutely lovely food and great cheerful atmosphere, absolutely great service would definitely go there again.
Service was utterly awful. We were clealy of less interest than the regulars, and our lunch order was taken by a waitress who did not stop to find out if we wanted anything thing to drink, and served by a waiter who was on his mobile phone at the time, so that we had to interrupt his call to ask if we could have some water.
Fantasic food absolutely fantastic...service was so friendly and efficient.by Ciaran . worth every visit.
Awful service, rude waiters and chefs, food adequate, even the coffee was bitter, probably one of the worst restaurants, to the extent i'm actually bothering to write a review...