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I have been twice now in a short space of time. Both times I got the sirloin a la Capricorn because it was good. Both times the steak was cooked as I …
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The Bountiful Cow
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Tucked away on an unassuming street, set back from the Holborn/Chancery Lane 'strip' sits one of the most tongue in cheek pub/restaurants I've been to…
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The Bountiful Cow
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DON'T ASK FOR A STEAK.... Which for a steakhouse to not be able to source a decent bit of meat is not a good sign. 60% of the Bone in Sirloin was fat …
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6 Reviews on “The Bountiful Cow”
I have been twice now in a short space of time. Both times I got the sirloin a la Capricorn because it was good. Both times the steak was cooked as I had requested. Chips are nice too. No complaints
Tucked away on an unassuming street, set back from the Holborn/Chancery Lane ‘strip’ sits one of the most tongue in cheek pub/restaurants I’ve been to in London – it’s The Bountiful Cow.Price: Baby Bountiful Burger (don’t be fooled by the name, this is still 9oz beef, and includes chips) – 10.50. Extra bacon – 1.70.Presentation:The Baby Bountiful burger ticks a lot of boxes when it arrives in front of us. Shiny brioche bun – tick. Well proportioned beef and toppings – tick. Visible melted cheese and tongue of bacon peeking out from under the bun – tick. Bountiful portion of chips filling up the rest of the plate – tick. All is in order for a classic pub burger.Toppings:Mild melted cheese merges seamlessly with the beef patty, and the super thin bacon packs a punch of salt and charcoal from its char grilling. Slightly less harmonious are the chopped onions (too much of them and massively overpowering), and the inexplicable curl of iceburg lettuce (causing stability issues with everything sliding around). The whole experience is finished off with a generic ‘burger sauce’ which adds a creamy acidity into the mix.Meat: The meat in this burger is a real throwback to the ‘gourmet’ burgers of old – lean, ground beef mixed with herbs – I know, it sounds like something out of the twilight zone BUT* and I caveat this heavily, it actually tastes quite good.There are three reasons for this:1) it’s freshly (and coarsely) ground so the salt hasn’t had time to draw out the moisture in the beef i.e. it’s juicy.2) There is no binding agent, so the texture is unadulterated.3) It’s cooked a perfect medium-rare.*there are, however, some cardinal sins which I find it hard to overlook. Firstly the beef is un-aged so the flavour profile is sharp and tinny – like supermarket steak – rather than the mellow beefiness of aged meat. Then there is no discernible crust formed on the outside of the patty as it’s been char-grilled, this also means that where the meat has come into contact with the hot metal it is charred and acrid. So it’s a bit of a mixed bag.Bun:On paper, and on sight, the brioche bun used for the Baby Bountiful burger looks to be the ideal wrapper for this burger, but the reality is a big fat Bun Fail. The same char-grilling which leaves the meat acrid has been deployed to toast the bun, but it’s a cursory press onto the char-grill which leaves deep, burnt marks in the bun but does little to stop it pulling apart and collapsing after just a couple of bites. Overall rating: 6/10If you can get over the adulteration of the beef, and the chargrilled cooking method, and the stale bun – all big barriers to burger enjoyment – then this isn’t too shabby. But I can’t. hamburger-me.com
DON’T ASK FOR A STEAK…. Which for a steakhouse to not be able to source a decent bit of meat is not a good sign. 60% of the Bone in Sirloin was fat and connective tissue and generally just a chewy mess – The knives don’t cut it either. 20% was bone and 20% was tasty and edible – but 25 for 3 ounces of edible meat still leaves a nasty taste in the mouth.Stick with the burgers (where the fat and connective tissue is ground up and therefore not a problem). These are actually pretty good.
Went after seeing a talk at Freemasons Hall and had a terrific meal of Welsh Rarebit and Steak Sandwich as we were not super hungry. Love the setting and staff were super friendly.
Birthday celebration. Four of us went on a Wednesday evening to celebrate a birthday. We sat upstairs which we thought was like being in an Edward Hopper setting. The barman wasn’t overly friendly or welcoming when we arrived. The steaks and burger were good. The only vegetable alternative to chips (or potatoes) was steamed spinach. When we wanted to order desserts or coffee the kitchen was closed. The waitress was stoney faced and looked very unhappy all evening. Disappointing.
Laughing cow. We sat downstairs next to the kitchen and went for the Sirloin, Caesar & Pimm’s offer @ 15 which was good value, given the steak was 9oz. Food was decent – steak cooked as requested but had to rely on sauce for flavour, chips were limp, Caesar had a good honest dressing to it but crotons were soft toast, Pimm’s refreshing but miserly on the alcohol. It was all nicely relaxed; staff & chef were friendly & cheerful. As far as the steaks go, there are more flavourful slabs of the meat found elsewhere in town.