The Clink Restaurant at HMP Brixton

https://athome.theclinkcharity.org/

The Clink now delivers! We’ve been once – see here – but we are currently quarantined and need to eat at home. So decided to be nice to ourselves and set up a booking to look forward to when we returned from holiday. But beware, eyes can be bigger than your stomach and this was certainly the case with our order.

For starters we ordered lemon & coriander hummus with handmade flat bread to share – certainly enough for two but we rather fancied the Arancini (sun-dried tomato & parmesan arancini with rocket pesto) and this was for one or two. Those two dishes served us for a really good lunch. When I say really good, not really good – it was fabulous. The Arancini were crisp and soft on the inside. The flatbread crispy on one side with oil and the hummus needed no adjustment for seasoning. Well done guys.

For dinner we had the sweet potato katsu curry with rice and what a revelation it was. The sweet potato had a bit of bite and even looked like a chicken katsu. The pickle had crunch with the occasional scotch bonnet surprise, and the katsu sauce was smooth and full of flavour. I am not keen on having my mouth tingle too much and this didn’t do that at all. If you like more chili then have a small bottle on the side to add. The rice steams so be careful removing the lid.

For some reason we also ordered extra vegetables – the Soy & Ginger Asian Greens which we ate with the katsu. It added a little crunch. What was surprising was the portion size. This was a curry for one but we shared and it was easily enough.

Then we were left with the Sea bream en papillote with Mediterranean vegetables & salsa verde. Delicious again – fish just right, vegetables superb (not enough hyperbole) and lovely sauce (requires a spoon).

Finally, we had the summer fruit crumble with crème anglaise which was definitely a sharing plate. Not just your boring apple one, but some sharpness of raspberry and red or black currants – we can’t check as we ate it all rather too quickly. Custard was smooth….mmmmm

Apart from being astounded by the quality of this meal, we really appreciated that every dish came with a description of what we needed to do with it. So we didn’t have to remember what we ordered or try to work it out for ourselves. We ordered £39.85 worth of food and paid £4.95 for the delivery. This included a couple of drinks (Cranberry Crush and Sicilian Lemonade). We got three meals out of this order, so it was brilliant value for money. We enjoyed every one and it cheered up our quarantine which was not like the original lockdown challenge, but became boring after the first couple of hours. We are definitely going to order again, probably before we are allowed to dine out again. But it would also make a really easy dinner party for your two households to enjoy.