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Shotgun BBQ – Review

December 9, 2016 by Adrian

Shotgun BBQ                       Soho

26 Kingly Street, Soho, London, W1B 5QD

 www.shotgunbbq.com/0203 137 7252img_9023I’m a fan of chef Brad McDonald. He hails from Louisiana and combines American Southern authenticity with some serious foodie credentials. With a CV that includes Noma and Per Se, Brad came to London a few years back to rescue The Lockhart, a characterless room in Fitzrovia that he set ablaze with his intense flavours and homestyle textures. img_9025Brad has now moved to Soho to Shotgun- a pared down atmospherically distressed joint where you can probably find Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday discussing gambling, shotguns and troublesome women. It has a long sweeping marble topped bar with bar-side dining as well as leather banquettes with wood panelling and with the low lighting it makes a great place for a secret assignation or hiding from the sheriff…Alongside some of The Lockhart’s greatest hits such as freshly baked-to-order Cornbread with Honey Butter and Shrimp and Anson Mills Cheddar Grits, Brad is offering one lucky pre-booked table per evening an authentic Fried Chicken Dinner with “all the fixins, served family-style” at a very reasonable £20 per head. The chicken boasts a buttermilk brine, and comes either ‘Original Lock’ or ‘Nashville Hot’ for those who like to pack some heat. The good news is that I’ve been invited to review this finger lickin combo.img_9029So what did we get in this Southern selection? Pimento cheese and crackers were spiky.Devilled eggs were soft, spicy and piquant. Cornish Crab Dirty Rice is a traditional Cajun rice dish made dirty (in a good way) from small chunks of chicken liver, garlic, Andouille sausage and brown crab.  It had a deep, rich smoky flavour.img_9030The famous Cornbread came sizzling from the kitchen pass in a cast-iron skillet, topped with bubbling honey butter. This salt sweet polenta based combo is one of the best dishes in London. img_9033Mac and cheese was Monterey Jack heaven, lashings of cheese with a hint of chilli.img_9037The signature Fried Chicken was tender and succulent coming in a deliciously light batter.img_9031Shrimp’n grits had a sublime depth of cheesy flavour with the smoked bacon, button mushrooms and heritage grains from South Carolina’s Anson Mills giving texture. Delicious! The perfect winter’s dish I could eat this every day.img_9032Sides of coleslaw and creamed corn img_9038Despite being full we finished with Banana Pudding. It was an über-creamy banana, honeycomb, chocolate crunchy kind of thing.The picture tells the story!img_9027With other dishes including Shotgun’s American BBQ staples such as slow-smoked Carolina Pulled Pork, Iberico Baby Back Ribs and USDA Beef Brisket you won’t be short of choice at Shotgun. I don’t think there’s a better deal in London at the moment than the Shotgun chicken dinner and the restaurant is a fab addition to the Soho dining scene.

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The Lockhart – Review

August 29, 2015 by Adrian Leave a Comment

The Lockhart                                Fitzrovia

22-24 Seymour Pl, W1H 7NL
lockhartlondon.com/02030115400
Lockhart dining room
 Sometimes people ask me why I don’t open my own restaurant. It seems that the combination of going out a lot and being an opinionated bugger qualifies me to become a restaurateur. Or maybe they just want to see me bankrupted…
 Anyway a year or so ago two London-based  Texan couples decided that what our city needed was a joint serving up food from the American South. To this end they hired a British chef who had impressed on ‘Masterchef’,  trained him up, hired a crack front-of-house team and then closed the restaurant shortly  afterwards after a spate of bad reviews.
Lockhart kitchenBut Texans don’t give up-in the case of Bobby Ewing they even come back from the dead-and their next play was a smart move. On reopening they hired chef Brad McDonald who hails from Louisiana. McDonald  combines authenticity with heavyweight foodie credentials having done time at Noma and Per Se as well as the urban cool of Brooklyn’s Colonie.
The room is stripped back and some critics have felt it’s a bit bleak. It may not be as chichi as other Fitzrovia haunts but better a cool urban vibe than a retro take on a dubious antebellum past. The relatively neutral background.gives the food room to speak.
 We snacked on pickled quails eggs (£1 each), soft and piquant and washed down with a smokey Margarita; but then the kitchen really got into gear.
Lockhart devilled crab Hot devilled Cornish crab (£9) had plenty of spice giving the brown meat a proper kick up the arse. Supping with the devil has its compensations…
Lockhart Catfish goujons
Catfish Goujons were crisp and piping hot from the fryer accompanied by a spiky mustardy Creole remoulade sauce that left you in no doubt that this kitchen means business.
Lockhart shrimp and gritsHer Ladyship and I moved on to a bottle of Willamette Pinot Gris , Oregon (£36) which was fruity and smooth and more than stood up to my dish of shrimp and grits (£18). I love this dish more than I can say. Southern comfort food that caresses the soul and makes you believe in I don’t know what…something…

Lockhart fried chicken

 Southern fried chicken came with collard greens and coleslaw (£17). This dish is about as far away from high street iterations as I am from Mo Farah at 1000 metres. Crisp and juicy, her Ladyship who isn’t inclined to the deep-fried thought it was lovely.
Lockhart cornbread
And finally it came…bread from heaven…freshly baked cornbread (£6) wet with butter, hot and coarse. You know you’re going to get in trouble but sometimes…
I love The Lockhart. Part of me lives in a fantasy south of my own imagination. A south where slavery never happened and the beauty of the country, music and food comes together to create something wonderful and new and unexpected. That south doesn’t exist but The Lockhart does. You should go.

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