The Joint

The Joint London – Barbecue Food – Brixton, Tooting & Food Truck

http://www.thejointldn.com

REVIEW: The Joint, New Cavendish Street, Marylebone - The ...

The food arrives as and when it’s ready, starting with some finger licking good BBQ wings.

More food arrived in the way of BBQ goodness and just when I thought the wings were the most impressive thing so far – the riblets were on another level.

It looked good, but even though it had a herb coating all I could taste was the corn and this example was a little too earthy in flavour.

We started out with yet more BBQ (why not we’re in a BBQ restaurant) opting for the 16hr slow cooked pulled pork (drool), all contained in a bun topped with candied apple bacon, slaw and salad.

As good as this choice was, The Joint for me are still the masters of the pulled pork, easily becoming one of my new favourite burgers in town.

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Disappointingly, The Joint doesn’t offer beef short rib on the bone but instead sells the rib meat in a bun.

The sandwich here lacked the spine-tingling sauces used by The Rib Man though, and while the strands of rib meat here were moist and tender they lacked the smokiness and collagen that makes beef short rib so enjoyable.

The barbecue riblets were coated in a mildly tangy sauce, but the meat wasn’t smoky enough and was almost too tender.

The Joint’s pulled pork is top-notch, but that can’t hide the fact that the rest of the menu is merely satisfactory and hasn’t evolved to meet the competition from London’s other barbecue restaurants.

The Joint is a decent barbecue restaurant, especially for the otherwise BBQ-less Marylebone, but it’s a choice of last resort when you can’t get a table at Pitt Cue, Big Easy Covent Garden or Texas Joe’s.

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She isn't cooking at Ametsa, but has apparently been heavily involved – hence the 'Arzak Instruction' (a subtitle that carries the unfortunate echo of those cards placed in phone boxes by discipline-minded ladies).

The most outré dish of the lunch was a dessert called 'moon rocks', chocolate-coated pebbles of freeze-dried orange and Cointreau, on a grey 'sand' of powdered black and white sesame seeds.

The Arzaks have apparently incorporated the best of British ingredients at Ametsa, rather than just importing local produce from San Sebastian, and it may be that dishes that sing and soar there just don't work quite as well here.

Ametsa with Arzak Instruction The Halkin Hotel Halkin Street London SW1 (020-7333 1234).

All tips and service charge go to the staff' The produce at this award-winning Spanish deli and tapas bar all comes from artisan producers – baby squid pan-fried in garlic butter served with salsa verde is a typically delicious dish.

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T has a lovely habit of telling me four hours beforehand how many things he wants to eat off the menu, so I walked in knowing he'd be on the horns of a four-starter dilemma.

His bizarre choice of main was spinach pithivier (£14.50), which arrived as a sort of puff-pastry top hat, covering tightly packed spinach with pine nuts, moated with a mushroom sauce.

The pastry was fantastic, the spinach was bland (I also had it as a side and that was bland, too) and the mushrooms were so salty that the entire thing functioned like a taste-bud extremity torture.

With its chic monochrome décor, laid-back vibe (you can pop in for just a main course and glass of wine for £10), and fantastic French cooking, this bistro is a local hit.

Try scallops with beurre noisette (£18.95) For a casual lunch or candlelit dinner in the West End, this buzzy restaurant is a great choice.

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At Margot they can offer you a special of tagliatelle with white truffles for £55 and not even raise their eyebrows while doing so.

The man supplying the cooking is Maurizio Morelli, whose pasta dishes I fell in love with at Latium, and whose pasta dishes I’ve now fallen in love with all over again.

A side dish of garlic and rosemary roast potatoes is just a crashing, puritanical bore.

At Padella by London’s Borough Market you get brilliant handmade pasta dishes from the team behind Trullo in Highbury, but you’ll have to queue for it and it’s counter seating.

Then again, the most expensive pasta dish is £9 which could be for tagliatelle with smoked eel and Amalfi lemon.

The Joint | Restaurants in Brixton, London

This is the original branch of The Joint.

For a review of the newer branch in Marylebone, click here.