The Hour Glass

2 Reviews on “The Hour Glass”

• Lutalican

  The Hour Glass is much more than your average pub, with an amazing new chef at the helm of the kitchen, the scents of food get your mouth watering as you walk upstairs to the dining area. My friend and I wanted to try some modern British food with a great beer selection , so The Hour Glass seemed like the perfect place for us. The menu is the perfect length with frequent changes based on the season and what the chef finds at the local market. The service was friendly, the waiter let us knew her recommendations, describing the ingredients and cooking style. The pork scratchings with mustard was the perfect snack to go with our beers. We then shared a plate of grilled duck gizzard with spring onion and salsa verde that was a flavourful sensation. Then came the grilled lamb tongue with beetroot, dill and yogurt – an absolutely exquisite combination. The green beans with roast shallots and rocket was a wonderful way to highlight the fresh produce. Then we moved on to our mains. My braised rabbit with white beans, bacon and cavolo nero was unlike any rabbit dish I have had before, I wanted to order it again. My friend ordered the Guinea fowl with rainbow chard an roast carrots and he said it was an absolute pleasure.Can’t end a meal without dessert and there is a great selection to choose from at The Hour Glass. The chocolate hazelnut brownie with salted toffee was a sweet taste unlike any other. The dessert that really excited my taste buds however was brioche bread pudding with blackberries and whipped cream. Every dish we had was amazing, a much need addition to the restaurant scene in Chelsea – can’t wait to go back!

  March 12, 2020, 1:35 am

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• Matt The List

  The Hour Glass was refurbished and reopened as a pub and dining room a few months ago by Dave Turcan and Luke Mackay, who also own Brompton Food Market, a highly-rated food shop and deli near South Kensington station. The ground floor pub is a traditional boozer – a nice place for a pint and a bar snack, though the beer selection is behind the times. Upstairs, you’ll find Chef Luke Mackay’s dining room, a calm and cosy space for unfussy, upmarket pub grub.I only had 60 minutes to spare at The Hour Glass. Aside from being mathematically and thematically pleasing, this was a good test of their lunch time efficiency. I just about managed to get through bar snacks, starters and a main, though an Uber was required to get me to my next destination in time.Bar snacks arrived in no time. The pick of the bunch, unsurprisingly, were the Rare breed Cumberland Scotch egg and the Rare breed herb & pancetta sausage roll. Add in Triple cooked beef dripping chips and some Montgomery Cheddar Welsh Rarebit and you probably wouldn’t need to order anything else.Starters also impressed. Wood pigeon with pickled quince, black pudding and toasted hazelnuts was a quartet of our favourite foods, smartly combined, and Potted Rabbit with Bacon Butter, Toast & Gherkins was full of flavour and generously portioned.By the time my Flat iron steak with dripping chips, bone marrow gravy & watercress arrived, I was looking at my watch – my fault not theirs. But I couldn’t leave behind those chips. Or anything else on the plate for that matter. I’m so often underwhelmed by mains after exciting starters, but this was glorious. Shame I had to wolf it down! [Don’t pretend you would have eaten it any slower]So I departed, leaving Dad The List and our foodie friend Chris to enjoy dessert at their own pace. They were so full up at this stage that they shared a delicious pudding of blackberry and almond tart with crme frache. This was a first for them as they are more likely to order two puddings each than admit to being beaten. The other two puds on offer were buttermilk pudding, damsons and honey, and chocolate & porter cake with cornflake ice cream and honeycomb. As he wrote this after a light breakfast on a freezing morning, Dad the List cannot imagine how he failed to sample all three! mattthelist.com

  March 4, 2016, 3:36 pm

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