The first day we were in London to visit our chosen son, his wife and the new granddaughter we took them to the local pub, in Wimbledon, the Fox and Grapes for lunch. We drank two bottles of Gobelsburger Gruner Veltliner Trocken 2010 Lössterrassen Kamptal from Austria. We ate avocado prawn cocktail £9.50 ($18.00); fox and grapes terrine, date purée & toast £6.00 ($11.40); charcuterie platter £12.50 ($23.75); English beer battered haddock, triple cooked chips & mushy peas £14.50 ($27.55); shepherd's pie served with dressed baby leaves £14.50 ($27.55); blood orange posset & shortbread £6.50 ($12.35); gariguette strawberries, goats yoghurt panacotta, sorbet, crumble & basil £7.00 ($13.30); and crème caramel £5.50 ($10.40).
An off hand find in the heat of an August day. Couldn't ask for more. Thanks to the team at Fox & Grapes for great service, grt food. Steak well cooked to order, haddock an nice size (not grotesque) burgers spot on.
It had been quite a number of years since my last visit, forty to be exact, used to run cross country around the common and the F & G was a pit stop on the way back to college. Well spent a delightful time on a grotty rainy lunchtime. I had the Beef ragu and linguine, it was just right, hearty and warm but not too heavy or big a meal. Certainly bought back memories and the food was light years away from the pub fayre offered previously.
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