Bordelaise

Bordelaise is a rustic French sharing concept bistro in Broadway Market, Tooting SW17 0RJ. We source our fantastic Scotch beef from the Rare Breed Company. We also do a French Sunday Roast lunch and we have a wonderful French cheese board.

Bordelaise - Rustic sharing concept Bistro

http://www.bordelaise.co.uk

Restaurant Review: Coal Rooms - Good Things

Put Peckham and pork scratchings in the same sentence and Delboy Trotter wrestling with a bar snack springs to mind, but oh, how things have changed down in SE15, as Cathy Howes discovers At the Coal Rooms, in the renovated (but still charmingly in character) old Art Deco ticket office at Peckham Rye railway station, head chef Sam Bryant is doing amazing things with ingredients – although maybe not for calorie-counters, as is evident from the moment we sit down.

Other  ‘I shouldn’t really…’ dishes include moreish mushroom mayonnaise with truffle and ‘Peckham Fatboy’ roast potatoes, a raclette of onions and beef fat mayonnaise named after a local character from the 1920s who weighed 14 stone by the age of 6!

The Christmas feasting menu (£40pp) served banquet style includes Peckham Rye Sourdough with the famous smalec; duck liver pate and duck fat toast; mackerel with lardo, crab apple and mead dressing; and aura potatoes with truffle and mushroom mayo.

It comes with ‘Peckham fatboy’ roast potatoes (naturally) and burnt cabbage, chestnuts plus more smalec.

Where to find it: Coal Rooms, 11a Station Way, Peckham, London SE15

Bordelaise // Broadway Market Tooting - LifeDaily

On Friday we had the chance to visit Bordelaise, a new French restaurant, tucked away in the middle of Broadway Market in Tooting.

I love to visit Cafe Rouge whenever I get the chance, so I was excited to try Bordelaise because it sounded *so* much more authentic than a franchise restaurant on the high street, and it was.

They are known for their steak & frites with Bordelaise sauce but they also do a Sunday lunch with bottomless bubbles, so, guess where I want to spend a Sunday afternoon soon….

To go with the steak we chose creamed spinach, beef dripping fries and a Bordelaise sauce for him, which is made with red wine and bone marrow (kind of glad I didn’t chose that) which takes two days to reduce down before it’s served.

Of course, being a Swiss man in a French restaurant the bloke was not going to partake in anything that wasn’t dairy related.

Sunday roasts in London: Bordelaise | London Evening Standard

The main event The Sunday lunches are unashamedly French – and yes, that means you won't find roast potatoes or Yorkshire puddings on the menu.

Read our full review of the Blacklock Sunday roast Paul Winch-Furness 2/28 The Guinea Grill, Mayfair There are three roast options, but there may as well just be one — it’s the beef which you must come for.

Read our full review of The Guinea Grill's roast 3/28 Smokehouse, Islington and Chiswick Meat and fire are the specialities of this gastropub duo, which makes the Sunday roasts a safe bet.

Though you’ll find an exemplary roast whatever your meat of choice, the rare, thinly sliced (but not meanly portioned) sirloin of beef is worthy of particular praise.

Visit the website 9/28 Hack Hop, the City This City pub pairs craft beers galore with a very good Sunday Roast.

Boulestin: restaurant review | Jay Rayner | Life and style | The ...

The curious thing is that the man behind Boulestin, Joel Kissin, is one of those most responsible for infesting London with white-walled, chromium dining rooms.

It was originally opened in Covent Garden in 1926 by Marcel Boulestin, the great anglophile French cookery writer who died in the 1940s leaving behind his restaurant.

Boulestin was the sort of man London had a lot of time for in the 1920s: a taste maker who turned his hand to everything from interior design to writing fiction.

The original Boulestin, the celeb-infested Wolseley of its day, was said to be the most expensive restaurant in London.

A moment's silence: this weekend sees the closure of Rhodes 24 at Tower 42 in London, the last Gary Rhodes restaurant in the capital.

The Game Bird, London: 'This is a love letter' – restaurant review ...

It’s called the Game Bird and the menu always has one: at the moment a roast squab pigeon, fully garnished.

But let your eye drift down the menu to a list of pies, puddings and stews, including a venison stew, a hotpot of hogget and best of all – cease my aching heart – a beef and ale steamed suet pudding.

Other things still demand my attention for subsequent visits: the oysters Rockefeller, and the whole sole meunière, the côte de boeuf for two with beef dripping potatoes and sauce bordelaise, the whimsy of chicken Kiev and the seriousness of roast mallard.

■ It’s been a while since I mentioned Rules, London’s oldest restaurant, but it’s hard not to in the context of the Game Bird.

The list of game, from their own estate, includes wild duck, pheasant, venison and the warning that some dishes may contain shot (rules.co.uk).

Bordelaise | Restaurants in Tooting, London

A bistro in the corner of Tooting’s Broadway Market.

Tucked into a corner site in Tooting’s Broadway Market – a rough-around-the-edges indoor market now home to trendy spots like the wonderful Plot – is this little bistro.

And, of course, a selection of rustic French small plates, including – mais bien sur – the option of steak frites.

As for the flat iron steak, it had been nicely charred, but if I’m being picky (which is what I’m here to do), it was closer to medium than the medium rare requested.

But while on my Tuesday night visit it was busy, it wasn’t busy enough to justify forgetting one dish entirely (I’ll never know what those beef dripping fries are like) and bringing an extra steak I never ordered.