Rabbit and smoked bacon pie. Fried duck eggs. No Yorkshire puddings. There’s nothing ordinary about Sunday afternoons at this London pub
“I’m bricking it a bit,” says Michael Davies, chef/co-owner of The Camberwell Arms in south-east London, when I ask for his reaction to OFM’s reader-voted Sunday lunch gong. “We do up to 200 on Sunday already, so Christ knows what we’ll get now.”
But if anyone can cope, it’s Davies – and not just because he recently opened an extra dining room upstairs. His fellow owners are veterans at this lark: Jonathan Jones, Rob Shaw, Trish Hilferty and Charlie Bousfield’s collective CVs include such restaurant royalty as the Eagle in Farringdon and the grandaddy of modern British cuisine, St John, and they now also run the Anchor & Hope in Waterloo and the Canton Arms in Stockwell. Add Claire Roberson, brought in as general manager after she sold up at Hackney’s Mayfields last year, and you’ve as solid a back-up team as you could wish for.
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