10 Pollen Street
Mayfair
London
W1S !NQ
It’s
Friday morning and you are feeling hungry, not to mention perhaps a touch shaky
from the night before, so when the phrase ‘pub lunch’ is mentioned you think Hallelujah!
So off down to the Pitcher and Piano on Pollen Street we went, and between us ordered quite a selection.
Let’s start with the 2 dishes off their ‘express £5’
menu (there was absolutely nothing express about it by the way!) which were a fettuccini
dish and a chorizo and bean cassoulet. The fettuccini was basically a pile of
pasta, with a sprinkling of olives and capers. Nothing else to say really. The chorizo and butter bean
cassoulet with a side of crusty bread was more butter beans than I have ever
seen in my life with a couple of slices of chorizo, some funny orangey sauce
with a bit of chilli powder or something in an attempt to add depth and make
the dish interesting. It didn’t. There was none of the rich tomato sauce you
usually get in this type of dish, and absolutely none of the added vegetables,
just hundreds upon hundreds of butterbeans. It looked like the kind of thing
that the Hollyoaks props department would use as fake vomit. Oh and the ‘side
of crusty bread’? cold white toast.
But maybe you get what you pay for…. Everything
else on the menu was around the £8 mark… 8oz burgers for instance, were they
any better? By all accounts no. Too small and very over done was the general
consensus. The tomato soup? Mediocre (seriously, how hard is it to get tomato soup right?). The beef and ale pie? Should be renamed
carrots and a beef oxo cube. The only thing that wasn’t complained about was
the pizza.
And with drinks coming in at £4.75 for a glass of red, and £4 for a
cider it really, really isn’t worth it. Pub Lunches on a Friday are precious,
for the love of God do not waste them here.
