Located next door to the restaurant of the same name, Quality Chop House Café is its more relaxed younger sibling, where it serves guests on weekdays for lunch only. The idea behind this second instalment of the popular restaurant is to offer diners the same food and quality ingredients it has become renowned for, just in a more informal and approachable setting.
The menu has been devised by executive chef Shaun Searley along with the restaurant’s shop head chef Charlotte van Holte. Punters can expect to find plenty of QCH classics on the menu, including its famous mince on toast, pork pies and pastrami salmon. Shaun and Charlotte have also added a number of exclusive dishes to the weekly lunch menu, which changes regularly, but might include things like French onion soup with a three-cheese toastie, a lamb shoulder bun with anchovy aioli and watercress, confit potato shards with anchovy and garlic mayonnaise, plus its signature QCH club sandwich. While desserts feature the likes of rice pudding with rhubarb and warm chocolate brownie with clotted cream.
The wine list features a selection of both ever-changing bottles available by the glass, and fixed options. There’s one cocktail up for grabs: a Pocket Negroni featuring Porter's gin, Italian bitter aperitif and sweet vermouth.
The interiors are typically rustic with wooden tables and chairs and menus written up on chalk blackboards on the walls. The café also overlooks The Quality Chop House Shop where diners can purchase artisan produce, including meat from its in-house butcher, as well as wines, beers and spirits. The shop and butcher is open seven days a week from 9am to 6pm.