Yacht

2 Reviews on “Yacht”

• Craig Osborne

  We all want good value for money but when that value is at the expense of good quality, I have to draw the line. I cant really think of a single positive to say about this place after a recent visit. Even previous visits left me feeling sick but had to eat here after another restaurant close by said their waiting times were close to 2 hours for a table.Thankfully (in hindsight, not really) we got a table straight away although the hostess originally said it was an hour wait until she actually used her eyes and noticed a small table for 5 of us to squeeze ourselves onto and share a single menu. My dad ordered the 16oz steak, my mum the lamb and my sister and niece both had the chicken New Yorker. I chose the Burger Challenge. This thing is huge and costs 10. It’s a burger with 2 12oz meat patties, 2 KFC style chicken fillets, 2 rashers of bacon covered in chilli served with a side of chips.It’s a mountain of a burger that wouldn’t look out of place in an American food challenge but it wasn’t the size that put me off of eating it, it was the taste. It was disgusting. Due to its immense size I had to cut into it with a fork amd steak knife. The regular knife was simply no good here. Biting into the meat I quickly realised I wasn’t going to be eating much of it. It was some of the lowest quality meat I’d tasted and you could really tell just by looking at it. The chicken faired better but it was just dry and tasted like cheap, frozen KFC from Iceland. I even tasted my niece’s chicken and found that to be dry too. As for the chilli, it was just sort of there. It was just completely tasteless with no flavour. Even if the food was decent, kids running around, opening the back door and letting cold air in throughout the meal didn’t exactly make things better on top of an hours wait for our food despite being told it would be ready in 30 minutes. The best thing to come out of the meal was a group sitting next to us who had ordered dessert. One had ordered an apple crumble that looked splendid in the menu but what he got was slop on a plate covered in custard. That gave us all a pretty good laugh.

  January 28, 2015, 5:02 pm

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• Martin Newman

  I’m a great fan of Adam Richman and the Man vs Food programme, and find watching the show is almost as good as eating the dishes… well, not entirely.But while the Yanks seem to have a monopoly on pig-out comfort food where do you go to get it in London?The place I’ve found, while not being evocative of some Mid-Western pulled pork diner or Louisana crayfish shack, is The Yacht in south-east London.This pub is part of the Flaming Grill chain and really does serve up a lot of food for not a lot of money. It specialises in steaks and sizzling dishes brought out on a skillet. And its menu seems deliberately geared towards making you salivate. I mean you know a starter of ‘loaded potato boats’ – potato in its skin with bacon, melted cheddar cheese and sour cream or BBQ sauce – cannot be good for you, but for some reason you just really want to eat it. And it’s like that all the way through the menu – right up to the triple choc waffle tower for dessert!They are also one of the very few eateries in the UK that do food challenges. Here they have the ridiculous ‘Flaming Challenge’ consisting of two 12oz beef burgers, two breaded chicken breast fillets, spicy chilli beef, bacon and onion rings, covered in onions and melted cheddar cheese and topped off with a giant serving of chips. At 1kg it’s not quite Man vs Food material, but I’ve seen it and it’s still enormous and frightening.If you get through it all they put your picture on the wall. You can also do a Flaming Wings challenge of 24 hot wings dipped in yellow habanero chilli sauce or get a mega foot-long hotdog, smothered in beef chilli, jalapeno peppers, sour cream, melted cheese and served with chips and corn on the cob. Awesome!The pub itself gets really busy, with a lot of families in there taking advantage of the good prices (all these dishes are under a tenner). A large 1930s brick building, it also has a play area for kids in the beer garden, so has really positioned itself as a family pub. And there is parking if you’re not from the area.Like most other pubs you order at the bar and the staff are always cheerful and courteous.A great value pub for some mindlessly indulgent eating.

  July 8, 2013, 5:53 am

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