#middlewhite

[nickbibbysculpture]

A little livestock montage. Left to right from the top #whitefacedartmoor #aberdeenangus #scottishblackface #suffolkpunch #middlewhite #shirehorse #largeblackpig #whiteparkcattle #englishlop #bronzesculpture #animalier #britishchampionanimals #nickbibby #sculpture #sculptor https://www.instagram.com/p/B9CTriHB1FM/?igshid=or8ilqcrl47m

[bellaphon]

Solo lunch from a month ago (yes, it takes me ages to edit a one minute video)- Glass of Colet Vins Vatua, Catalunya £8 Fish soup, sea beets, potato, dill and trout roe Middle White pork chop (Two courses for £19.50) Confit potatoes £5.50 Glass of Muxagat, Branco, Douro 2014 £8 Elgar's Introduction and Allegro, Op.47 performed by the Gardner Chamber Orchestra. . . . #fatlesdrinks #Englishfood #Britishfood #chophouse #fishsoup #porkchop #middlewhite #confitpotatoes #winepairing #wine #vino #cava #vinho #instawine #farringdon #Elgar #classicalmusic #orchestral #strings #allegro #stringorchestra #eeeeeats #instafood #londoneats #londonfood #londondrinks The Quality Chop House, 88-94 Farringdon Rd, Clerkenwell, London EC1R 3EA (at Quality Chop House, The)

[eatinlondon]

Middle White pork leg at @newmansttavern #Foodinlondon #food #foodporn #middlewhitepork #middlewhite #pork #newmansttavern #newmanstreettavern (at Newman Street Tavern)

[stusbouche]

Blessed by St John

To say that the highlight of our long awaited meal at St John - a well established, unfussy restaurant specialising in the lesser known cuts of meat - was dessert might suggest that lesser known cuts of meat don't make for exceptional restaurant food.

In actual fact, everything we consumed was exceptional, including the wine and the bread, though you might expect that from what is also a Bakery & Wine Shop.

For starters we had Bone Marrow Salad: salty, rich, creamy, delicious and amusingly still sitting inside the bones just to remind you what you're eating, and; Braised Pig's Head and Bean Stew: melt in the mouth meat and hearty cannellini beans in a sticky, gelatinous sauce, thankfully this was just neatly arranged on a plate.

Our mains were Roast Middlewhite: a rare breed of pork served with perfect crackling and buttery greens, rather conventional but no less enjoyable, and; Ox Tongue: mildly pickled flavour, textured like proper corned beef, and an unusually familiar sensation of tongue on tongue, certainly not for the carnivorously challenged but a treat for yours truly.

And so to dessert. Barely set rhubarb jelly, shortbread and jersey cream offered a sublime balance of sweet, sharp, smooth and crunch. Finally, the best Eccles Cake I've eaten: incredibly sweet, chewy currants encased in a finger thick shell of indulgent buttery pastry, perfectly accompanied by an oversized wedge of salty Lancashire cheese, and deserved of its photo.