Brook and Badger is far from a streetcorner boozer. The interior is charming, with wood tables, oil lamps, beautiful wallpaper, and a huge kitchen turning out far more than basic pub food. You still have the big wooden bar where it should be, but everything around it is a notch more elegant. You can see straight into the stainless-steel kitchen from the dining room, which gives it more of a refined restaurant feel than a typical pub, and out front there’s a sunny covered patio filled with plants and greenery. On a Sunday afternoon the place is full of couples, families, dogs, and well-behaved children and babies, which is exactly the crowd you want around you for a long lunch.
We came in for the Sunday roast after walking over in the hot sun, so we started with a half pint of a refreshing peach-infused beer from Cornwall, which was exactly the cold, slightly fruity thing we needed. Then we went deep on the starters, sharing across the three of us because it was impossible to narrow it down. We had the whipped cod roe and bread, the coppa ham croquettes (perfectly cheesy on the inside and crisp on the outside), the roasted Orkney scallops with pea mash served in the shell, and the steak tartare with shallots, capers, a chive emulsion, and a beef fat crostini. See how this is far more than fish and chips and the usual pub food.
For mains, we were thinking of branching out from the usual Sunday roast, until we saw the Yorkshire puddings on the next table over. They were huge, and that settled it. We ordered one traditional beef roast with horseradish and jus, and one roast lamb which came with a deliciously minty relish. Our three-year-old finished off everyone’s cabbage, which is how we know it was good.
We were definitely too stuffed for dessert, but you can’t really leave without trying the sticky toffee pudding, which came with a side of clotted cream ice cream. We shared an order between the three of us.
Overall a fabulous pub experience, with very friendly service, that pulls in the posher Fulham crowd. The kind of place we’d happily come back to next Sunday.
Brook and Badger, 224 Munster Road, Fulham, London SW6 6AY.
Note: Brook and Badger provided support for the reporting of this story.