Celebrate World Animal Day… By Eating Them Here
It’s World Animal Day today, so we’ve decided to take the initiative and round-up some of our favourite places to eat them. Whether you’re jumping to eat some rabbit, or if you’re after a chicken that isn’t foul, we’ve got all of the udderly best animal-feasting restaurant’s for you at our fingertips that you shouldn’t be sheepish to try. And trust us, there are some weird and wonderful places serving up the most outlandish of animal dishes. From crocodile steaks at Shaku Zulu to get your teeth into… to
Shaka Zulu
For Crocodile...
Shaka Zulu has always been renowned for the weird and whacky dishes it serves up, making it the perfect spot to Shaka your way to and try crocodile. Positioned on the Shield menu lies crocodile cigars with finely diced crocodile loin, sun blushed tomato and harissa tomato. If this doesn’t croc your world however, there’s grilled crocodile with red wine jus on the mains menu!
Where: Stables Market, Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8AH, United Kingdom
Website: www.shaka-zulu.com
Archipelago
For A Little of Everything...
Like Shaka, Archipelago also has croc on the menu! However, if you’re only of these people that shouts at the TV during I’m A Celebrity, convinced you can combat the bug eating challenge, then get yourself down to this restaurant to feast on pan fried chermoula crickets, quinoa, spinach and dried fruit partnered with love bug salad! Or enjoy Durban “Bunny Chow” with moong bean & lentil Indian curry and green mango atcha. It’s certainly a place for those whose eyes are braver than their bellies…
Where: 53 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia, W1T 4JJ
Website: www.archipelago-restaurant.co.uk
F. Cooke's
r-Eelly nice, honest...
Jellied eels, even the very name has a stomach churning effect, but it’s a historic London dish nevertheless. And if you’re going to do the jellied eel thing properly, you must head to F. Cooke’s in Hackney’s Broadway Market. The market cafe (and it’s definitely a ‘caff’ and not a ‘café’) has been serving the stuff for generations.
Where: 9 Broadway Market, Hackney, E8 4PH
Website: www.facebook.com/fcookes
Smith & Wollensky
For Cow...
Smith & Wollensky started off in America, before moving across the pond to set up shop in the Adelphi Building. On the menu are USDA prime dry-aged steaks including Kansas City cut bone in-sirloin and T-bone. Other cuts include premium Irish fillet mignon charbroiled and a 1kg Tomahawk steak. If you can, finish with the gigantic chocolate cake. Then roll home.
Where: The Adelphi, 1-11 John Adam Street, Covent Garden Riverside, London WC2N 6HT, United Kingdom
Website: www.smithandwollensky.co.uk
The Jones Family Project Restaurant & Bar
For Yet More Cow...
If you find yourself over in Shoreditch and in need of a steak then head to the Jones Family Project. All their meat comes from Ginger Pig in Levisham North Yorkshire and other farmers that they trust, it’s then aged for a minimum of 28 days before it’s cooked on a Josper grill. You can choose between fillet, sirloin, rib eye and bone in prime ribs to share. And whilst we all know steak and red wine are a winning combination, their cocktails are pretty great too, so make sure you order at least one whilst you’re there.
Where: 78 Great Eastern Street Shoreditch EC2A 3JL
Website: www.jonesfamilyproject.co.uk
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