Bite Me!

I've been putting off putting this review online because I took some photos on a friend's phone and was waiting for them to be emailed over to illustrate my deathless prose.   This was a month ago and I've now realised that we could be here until next Christmas waiting around for him to get his ass in gear and email me the bloody things, so I shall just post this without photos and hopefully add them in later on.  Like, next year.

So, on to the review...

I’m always a bit wary of going for pub lunches on a Sunday.  Too often, amidst all the great hulking plates of roast beef with all the trimmings, you’ll find that the vegetarian option is something totally boring and non-roast related, like risotto.  Now, I like risotto, but it’s hard not to get envious when you’re spooning up a mouthful of insipid pap next to an entire tableful of people tucking into a hefty pile of roast potatoes and gravy.

I was therefore really, really happy about my lunch at The Water Poet yesterday.  They do a proper vegetarian roast dinner, with roast potatoes, carrots, parsnip, onion, yorkshire pudding, what seemed like a quarter of a head of cabbage and two massive, stuffing-filled vegetarian sausages.  And vegetarian gravy.   It was such an enormous plate of food that I could barely move afterwards, which is always the sign of a good lunch for me.  And they do Aspalls on tap.  I love that pub.

The Water Poet, 9-11 Folgate Street, London E1 6BX