The Malt House

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Mon Feb 4 2013

There’s a scene in the BBC adaptation of Dickens’s ‘Little Dorrit’, where, having fallen on hard times, Edmund Sparkler suggests to his social-climbing wife Fanny that they might move to a ‘less expensive part of town’, such as… ‘Fulham’. ‘Fulham!’ she shrieks, plainly outraged. But this one-time poor cousin of Chelsea is, in culinary terms at least, on the up.

First came the Harwood Arms – the first and only London pub to hold a Michelin star – and now there's the Malt House. Like its award-winning near neighbour, it also has a high-profile founder (Claude Bosi, of the even starrier Hibiscus), is in a spruced-up, handsome old pub and serves British-style cooking of the highest standard.

There were own-made pork scratchings: rich, dense, and with the faintest hint of malt vinegar. Then a hotpot of mutton and apricot, served in a Lilliputian cast-iron casserole, with a fan of wafer-thin potatoes revealing a mellow, full-flavoured stew so yielding, so tender, that your granny could have left her dentures on the bedside table and still enjoyed it. Triple-cooked chips were no less memorable: crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside, just as a designer chip should be. Finally, pitched perfectly at the ladies who lunch, a light-as-air malted 'ice cream’ fashioned from soya milk, sprinkled with crumbled biscuit and given a moreish slick of buttery salted caramel: it had just a frisson of naughtiness.

The cooking is the most creative and innovative aspect of this operation. Wines (a dozen of which are available by the glass or carafe) hail largely from France, with only a sprinkling from the New World.

Interiors leap straight from the pages of ‘Period Living’ (all tongue and groove, soft wood tones and Farrow & Ball paint), while staff are polite and attentive. SW6 is strictly upper-crust now: Fanny would be quite satisfied.

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Lunch:2 courses & carafe of wine per couple £17.50

or 3 courses & a carafe of wine per couple £19.50. Maximum of 6 diners. Includes VAT, excludes service.

Offer valid until Jul 22 2013
Dinner: 2 course set menu for £19.50

or 3 courses from a set menu with a carafe of wine per couple £21.50 Maximum of 6 diners. Includes VAT, excludes service.

Offer valid until Jul 22 2013

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Address:
The Malt House 17 Vanston Place
United Kingdom
London
SW6 1AY

Phone:
020 7385 3593
Website:
www.malthousefulham.co.uk
Opening hours:
Open 11am-11pm Mon-Sat; noon-10.30pm Sun. Lunch served noon-3pm, dinner served 6.30-10pm Mon-Sat. Meals served noon-8.30pm Sun
Transport:
Tube: Fulham Broadway tube
Price:
Main courses £12.50-£26.50. Set lunch £17.50 2 courses, £19.50 3 courses. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £70.
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1. The Malt House
  - 17 Vanston Place
    United Kingdom
    London
    SW6 1AY
  - 020 7385 3593
  - www.malthousefulham.co.uk
  - 51.481496,-0.198733

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Meal times. Best for lunch. Best for dinner

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I was blown away by this place. A warm welcome on arrival, impeccable, friendly service and, best of all, the food was absolutely delicious. If you have never had caramelised brown bread ice cream you should get down here while they are still making it!

Howard About 12 days ago
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good restoraunt

tiffany Fri Apr 12
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Was looking forward to my Mothers Day meal here as the reviews where excellent. What a mistake, worst service I have ever received in a restaurant. I understand it must have been busy but they know what bookings they have taken. Food took over an hour half to come then was cold and hardly any vegetables, asked repeatedly for some bread while we waited, that took just as long as the food to come, Staff really unhelpful in fact some were very grumpy, then waited so long for desert we left. I have no problem paying for good food but not service charge when it has been so poor. Would never go there again and would certainly not recommend to anyone,

C Gilbey Wed Mar 13
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Jolly good. FANTASTIC food. Will go again and can recommend anyone else to do the same without a second thought.

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Dinner: 2 course set menu for £19.50

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