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| Tue 13 Aug, 2013 |
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| SMOKING HOT |
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| Shall we smoke? |
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This year, it's all about stoking, coking and poking. The opening of Pitt Cue Co's first restaurant last year meant that BBQing was more than just a meaty trip to Bodean's. It's still going strong – Galvin Café A Vin has just launched Friday Urban BBQs with a Big Green Egg (NB: a brand of ceramic barbecue). The second wave is all about grilling, with Richard Caring's much-awaited Grillshack opening in September. At the moment, though, we're concerned with something a little smokier. |
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We first saw the fumes at Caravan with their Smoked, Pickled & Raw menu, and now the rest of London has caught alight. Char-obsessed Neil Rankin has turned up the heat with his latest venture Smokehouse, adding flavour to the menu via a wood and charcoal smoker, bespoke robata grill and a Big Green Egg (there it is again). Expect daily specials of lobster, rib racks and brisket ox cheek – basically, you name it, he'll smoke it.
Confirming the whispers, Salt Yard is opening a Basque and Italian-style smoke and grill restaurant on Berwick Street – think smoked oysters, salt-crusted sea bass and Iberico pork racks. Even the desserts get smoldered: smoked milk ice cream with pears in Moscato Rosa, anyone? Over in the hipster camp, Smokey Tails is giving Hackney Wick a taste of the fumes. Founded by Jo Vidler and Lyndell Sabine, and in collaboration with music makers Seth Troxler, Ryan Crosson and Ben Pound, this canal-side hideaway is a smoked meats pop up – think smoked wings, ribs and burgers (of the pulled pork, brioche bun variety).
Lastly, it's not just restaurants getting smoked. Harvey Nichols sells oak-smoked water and vodka, and Marks & Spencer is set to launch a range of smoked butters, salts and chocolate.
Forget the stovetop, we're going ashes to ashes.
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Info
Smokey Tails, The Container Yard, 119 Wallis Road, E9 5LN
Grillshack, 61-63 Beak Street, W1F 9SL
Galvin Café A Vin, Bishops Square, E1 6DY
Smokehouse, 63-69 Canonbury Road, N1 2DG
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