The Hind's Head

The Hind's Head 15 April 2010 at 14:39  

General review :

Bill: 85 GBP (2 guests).

Patrick B. (311 Reputation Points)

Heston Blumenthal of The Fat Duck owns this pub with spectacular original features across the road too, with Clive Dixon in the kitchen. The approach to food is essentially to recreate classic, earthy, pub dishes using excellent ingredients and some of the latest cooking techniques. It shouldn't really be seen as 'The Fat Duck Across the Road' therefore, but as a restaurant in its own right. The oxtail and kidney pudding and chicken and tarragon pie are regular features and both are mouthwateringly good. Follow up with banana eton mess. Rump steak with marrowbone sauce and triple cooked chips is also a feature, and was formerly on The Fat Duck menu in earlier days. Bring your appetite - you'll need it! Wines by the glass too so pretty helpful. Effectively, sometimes I want to round up tourists in drab pubs off Trafalgar Square and bus them here so they can see what British food can be like when we put our minds to it.

Staff could be a little more polished in their service. But it is a pub after all.