Watch out Caravan - Exmouth Market has a new brunch offering and it's a seriously piggy one. Blackfoot's built up a solid lunch and dinner trade, but as of the weekend they started opening for brunch. We popped down to try it out and it pretty much set us up for the rest of the day.
There are a few lunch time dishes on there, but the ones you're really going to want to try are the new brunch specials. We kicked off with a small bowl of their pinhead porridge, served up with maple syrup and topped with lardons and chopped prunes that had been soaked for a month in rum. Although you can get a bigger bowl for a fiver, the £3.50 version's just right as it leaves you more room to work your way through the rest of the menu.
After the porridge we tried a few of their cherrystone clams - we picked gratin with bacon and shallots over the raw with chilli and lime - which were super-sweet with an excellent crunch from the gratin topping at £4 for two.
For the mains - HotDinners2 went for the Pork & Black pudding hash which was a mountainous potato cake studded with hunks of pork and black pudding, fried egg and light gravy. On a good day he would have won the ordering competition if it weren't for my sobrasada soldiers - sourdough soldiers with a thick topping of sobrasada sausage mixed with whipped lardo to make it spreadable - and coddled eggs done in an old cow and gate baby jar. Cute as a button to look at, but simply marvellous to eat.
Coffees are courtesy of Monmouth and strong enough to melt your spoon - and there's a range of hair of the dog cocktails which we didn't get around to trying. This time.
Weekend brunch at Blackfoot runs from 11am to 4pm and they are open over the Easter weekend with revised opening hours - see their website for details.
Blackfoot is at 46 Exmouth Market,London EC1R 4QE. Find out more about Blackfoot.
Prices were correct at time of writing. Hot Dinners ate as guests of Blackfoot.
