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Tommy Tucker – Where GASTRO Meets PUB | SweervyWine
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I’ve been planning to try out this pub with a catchy name Tommy Tucker in Fulham, SW London for a while.
Tommy Tucker stands out on Mr Google with its high score (4.6/5) so my expectations were high when I finally ventured there on a rainy Saturday evening.
Overall very decent price tag, especially considering the quality: under £30 per head for 2 courses and a glass of wine, and that on a Saturday evening.
The service was friendly but inattentive at times (e.g. we sat with empty starter plates for quite a while; or I asked to see the wine list again and it never came), but in their defense it was very busy.
With just one visit Tommy Tucker has made it to the list of my local favourites and I will surely be back to taste my way through their menu.
The Tommy Tucker - Just Opened London
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‘The local’ in London is a rare thing.
When you find it, you go there not for worrying about last trains home, or for overdue catch ups: our kind of local is like we’d find near our parents’ homes, two days before Christmas, spilling with familiarity.
It’s this kind of thing that Claude Compton, Jim Morris and George McCabe are pitching for with their new haunt, The Tommy Tucker, to be found just south of the Fulham Broadway station towards Eelbrook Common and one of our favourite brunching spots, Eelbrook.
2013’s Claude’s Kitchen is partially behind the project, the restaurant within nearby champagne bar Amuse Bouche opposite Parsons Green Tube.
Their bright, flavourful lunch and evening meals, wines and home-distilled spirits become swept up in the spirit of ‘east meets west’ – Tommy Tucker translates to supper in cockney rhyming slang…
C'Alice, Fulham, London: Restaurant Review | olive magazine - olive ...
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This new Italian restaurant and wine bar from husband and wife team Alice Ravelli and Giovanni Di Stefano fits in well with the neighbourhood vibe of Fulham’s Munster Road.
Start with an aperitif (homemade peach purée bellini or classic Aperol spritz) and graze on Italian antipasti, including pan-fried scallops, arancini or the cured meat and cheese boards.
We suggest sharing one of the homemade pasta dishes (swordfish paccheri, seafood spaghetti and Italian sausage strozzaprety) before moving on to mains such as poppy seed baked salmon, sirloin steak tagliata with caramelized shallots and ossobuco with Milanese risotto.
Multiple wine glasses line the tables, ready to be filled with Italian pinot grigios, barolos and sangioveses from the impressive wine library that you can see from the restaurant.
With new Italian wine discoveries and thoughtful cooking in a buzzy and contemporary setting, this neighbourhood spot is a great addition to South West London.
Fay Maschler reviews The Tommy Tucker | London Evening Standard
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Claude Compton, of Claude’s Kitchen and Amuse Bouche champagne bar and restaurant in Parsons Green, leads the team in making what was The Pelican into “the licensed extension of your living room” (his description quoted in Hot Dinners).
The menu, divided into Meat, Fish, Fruit Veg and On the Side — with prices in each category giving a clue to the size of a dish — reads like a modern novel about the way restaurant food is heading.
Whole mackerel served with pickled beetroot — those steadfast roots, stalwarts of this kitchen; smoked beef short rib with salsa verde and baked arrocina — the pearl of dried beans; pork chop with charred hispi cabbage, bacon and apples; and lamb chump steak with roasted winter veg and mushroom ketchup are our main courses (£15.50 to £18.50).
Main course: pork chop with charred hispi cabbage, bacon and apples (Picture: Matt Writtle) Sitting near us, it should go without saying, are chaps in corduroy trousers and quilted jerkins, but our evening is made by the 2012 Crocera Barbera d’Asti “like a Merlot that’s been on the whey protein”, at £24 from a biddable list and our waitress resembling Pippa Middleton so closely that we figure it must be her.
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Tommy Tucker | Bars and pubs in Walham Green, London
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A new 'posh gastropub' from Claude Compton, of Claude's Kitchen, in the rich seam of City money that runs deep into Fulham.
Chef Claude Compton also runs Claude’s Kitchen, a similarly casual pub-restaurant with pedigree round these parts.
It’s a brave chef who serves a huge mackerel, head and all, that extends over the sides of a large dinner plate; but despite the charred appearance, the flesh was moist and tender.
The pickled beetroot served with it, however, was rock-hard; we queried this with our waiter, who relayed the chef’s insistence that it was meant to be that way.
No wonder the wellshod of Fulham are galloping to Tommy’s.