For the best Sunday roasts in London, head to The Harwood Arms in Fulham, known for its Michelin-starred roast featuring perfectly cooked meats and seasonal sides. Blacklock Soho is another top spot, offering a hearty roast with all the trimmings, making it a must-visit for any Sunday in the city.
Few things are more beloved than a Sunday roast. It’s the perfect way to round off a lazy Sunday with friends and family. With a plethora of options, finding the perfect spot for your Sunday roast can be a minefield. House of Coco have done all the work for you and we are sharing our top picks for a roast in London, to help you find your perfect match.
The Jugged Hare
The Jugged Hare in Chiswell Street has the kind of old-fashioned charm you’d expect from an address that sounds straight out of a Dickens novel. The restaurant is cosy and inviting, the perfect choice for a long and lazy Sunday lunch in London’s cultural heartland near the Barbican Centre.
To start with, there’s a selection of aperitifs to choose from before the main event, including a Bloody Mary, glass of champers or a signature cocktail – as well as a wide selection of soft drinks, from CBD tipples to flavoured sodas. Alongside these are some preliminary snacks like olives and nuts to graze on while looking through the menu.
Starters are reasonably predictable with some unique options thrown in, like deliciously garlicky baked sea snails and charred sweetcorn with yellow pepper gazpacho, making a refreshing start to the meal. I opted for the smoked cod’s roe, serrano and sourdough, which was a flavourful dish that pre-empted a delicious main event.
The atmosphere is buzzy and the wine list is accomplished; both making for an enjoyable way to spend an afternoon. While its namesake suggests that game is the signature dish, I opted for roast beef, to be precise a 45-day aged Longhorn beef with horseradish cream, which was served with all the trimmings. It was everything a Sunday roast should be; hearty, warming and full of flavour. Desserts are traditional and done well, with options like sticky toffee pudding, a decadent chocolate tart and baked cheesecake. We’ll definitely be returning to the Jugged Hare for seconds. etmcollection.co.uk/venue/the-jugged-hare
The Parakeet
A Sunday Roast that features a live fire grill as part of its repertoire is sure to grab attention. Former head Chef of Brat, Ben Allen knows that and he’s brought his smoky magic to The Parakeet in Camden to deliver an audaciously brilliant Sunday dining experience.
The first thing you notice before you even sit down is the stunning decor at Parakeet starting with an impressive pub with dark furnishings and a massive bar that runs down the length of it. Then there’s the enticing heavy velvet curtain that sweeps open to reveal the expansive wood-panelled dining room replete with a semi-open kitchen where the chef skilfully chars, roasts and grills over a live fire grill.
You know you’re in for a treat when you look at the menu which has a focus on British dishes and produce harvested at their seasonal height. Before tucking into the food, in addition to an extensive wine list, you have the choice of imbibing a negroni, Paloma, bloody Mary or a blood orange spritz for those who are teetotal.
An impressive selection of small sharing plates kicks things off. The potato bread arrives at your table warm and spongy with aromatic smoked butter on the side that melts as soon as you slather it across the bread. The cordial olives are fresh and make a great accompaniment to the bread. Then there are the oysters with red apple, pickled kohlrabi and chilli that have a delicate sweetness to them and will melt in your mouth. The starter menu is a real fish lover delight – with the grilled prawns and brown butter dripping in garlicky deliciousness maintaining the strong seafood theme.
The mains take things up a notch. There is a choice of lamb, hay-smoked roast chicken, roast beef and celeriac wellington to choose from. All come with all the trimmings: spring greens, roast pink fir potatoes, seasonal root veg, Yorkshire pudding, and carrot and swede puree. The lamb is succulent, perfectly pink and revels in the smoky flavours that envelope it. The beef comes an impressive 2nd after the lamb as a choice of dish, delivering on flavour in bucketloads. Uniquely, Parakeet also has sea bream to share as part of the Sunday Roast offering, a freshly cooked and beautifully charred hunk of fish that you will remember for a long time after you’ve visited Parakeet. The leek gratin with its creamy deliciousness adds a wonderful richness to the whole affair.
The glutton in you will not be able to resist the pudding menu. The tangy Kalamanso sorbet is the tangy palette cleanser that you’ll probably fancy after an indulgent main course but it’s the sticky toffee pudding that you’ll want to write home about- it’s a steamy, sticky generous wedge of happiness that you’ll somehow manage to squeeze in before you head home feeling about half a stone heavier and most definitely 100% satisfied. theparakeetpub.com
Kudu Grill
Kalahari spiced biltong feels like the appropriate starter for this unique experience and the flavoursome grilled potato bread with lardo and garlic is the reason tear and share was invented. You can literally taste the spirit of South Africa in the Grilled prawns drenched in peri peri sauce.
Then it’s onto the roast itself. On a sizzling hot braai where everything is fire-roasted to perfection, slabs of beef are beautifully charred and served alongside South African-inspired accompaniments in all their smoky glory. Yorkshire puddings are swapped for sweetcorn bread, and roast potatoes are substituted for fluffy fingerling potatoes in this stunning Sunday Roast mash-up. Grilled carrots, broccoli and sweet fondant shallots complete the plate, with smoked thyme just replacing traditional gravy.
Pudding is equally delightful. The delectable, MelkTurt choux bun with candied kumquats and jasmine ice cream is the perfect round-up to a Sunday Roast that you won’t be forgetting about any time soon. kuducollective.com/kudu-grill
The Coachmakers Arms
Situated in the heart of Marylebone, The Coachmakers Arms offers a luxurious space in their upstairs dining room to enjoy a Sunday lunch. Undoubtedly an elite strain of pub, the Coachmakers Arms Sunday lunch is as impressive as you’d imagine. The menu covers everything from devilled eggs with Exmoor caviar, to breaded scallops and duck liver parfait as starters.
Lunch sees punters given a choice between elevated mains such as grilled monkfish tail with Shellfish sauce and salt-baked celeriac with truffle aioli. But It’s the stellar Sunday Roast that makes it a destination for foodies. Go classic with the roasted Angus beef rump with horseradish and creme fraiche or the roasted leg of lamb with fresh mint sauce. Accompanying your perfectly pink meat is a crunchy Yorkshire pudding, horseradish, crispy roasties, red cabbage, honey mustard carrots and parsnips, buttered greens winter squash and lashings of gravy. There’s also an “all in” option for the famished (or the indecisive) with the mixed roast which includes Pork, Lamb And Beef.
Make a full feast of it and stretch your stomach one final degree for the signature apple, plum and oat crumble served with piping hot vanilla custard. cubitthouse.co.uk/the-coach-makers-arms-marylebone
The Cadogan Arms
There are few things that are as quintessentially British as a dog-friendly pub with a roaring fire and killer Sunday Roast. The Cadogan Arms is the Sunday snuggle fest that delivers all this and so much more. With Two-Michelin Star Chef, James Knappett purveying a modern menu of simply prepared seasonal dishes that confidently straddle comfort and class, it’s not hard to see why The Cadogan Arms continues to cement its 200-year reputation as a much-loved Chelsea institution.
A formidable culinary harbour, The Cadogan Arms has an impressively curated gourmet Sunday roast menu that includes delectable dishes such as Longhorn Rump served with bone marrow sauce and horseradish cream, or the popular half Herb-Fed Chicken served with brioche and truffle stuffing.
All of this can be enjoyed in the opulent dining room perched on their comfy velvet seats surrounded by striking wall art and beautiful flower displays. Best of all, the food offering adapts as the months unfold and from October the pub menu continues to be a celebration of seasonal British fare with the popular roast leg of lamb served with crispy garlic and boulangère potatoes making an appearance. Each dish is served with butter-glazed vegetables, roast potatoes, and Yorkshire puddings. For bigger groups, The Cadogan Arms Offers winsome Sunday Sharer Boards for a minimum of 3 people which includes a selection of their best roast meats with all the trimmings.
The dessert list is full of tempting choices including the hearty Rhubarb and Blood Orange Trifle, and Sticky toffee pudding but the show stopper is the Chocolate Tart served with shortbread, hazelnut and buttermilk ice cream. thecadoganarms.london
Macellaio
If you like your Sunday lunch big and bold, and slightly left of centre then Macellaio with its 6 London outposts serving their Italian-inspired Sunday roast with all the trimmings is sure to impress. Visit the Store Street branch with its marvellous, slightly scuffed and unstudied charm that runs through the rustic industrial chic aesthetic, glossy tiles, corrugated steel features and walls that are warmly festooned with Fiat-related paraphernalia.
The menu kicks off with a selection of Italian influences for starters. Go for the 24th-month-aged San Daniele charcuterie and Aoulian Buratta served with a bountiful basket of thick fluffy garlic bread coated with lashings of garlic-infused olive oil. Be careful not to fill up too much on starters as you’ll need plenty of space for the main event.
The kitchen at Macellaio comes up trumps serving a big-hearted, British Sunday roast that has been given the Piedmontese treatment. A hunk of Italian Fassone beef, aged to purplish splendour is served lightly charred on the outside and a juicy shade of pink on the inside. It’s topside of beef that is as rich in flavour and as sumptuously juicy as you could ever imagine it could be.
The presence of all the traditional trimmings is what grounds it in the tradition of the British Sunday Roast. Crispy little roast potatoes scented with garlic and rosemary, parsnips, roast carrots, savoy cabbage, brussel sprouts and lashings of gravy complete what is a plateful of deliciousness. The Yorkshire pudding is enormous and threatens to eat you before you eat it.
If after all that, sweet temptation beckons, you can sate your cravings with the superb basil-infused panna cotta with meringue, its creamy rich and gloriously moreish. Or for something more traditional, finish your dining experience with the dense and creamy homemade gelato. macellaiorc.com
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