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Central London: Borough
Restaurant (bar) (Wright Brothers)
11 Stoney Street SE1 9AB
T 020 7403 9554 w thewrightbrothers.co.uk f WrightBrothersOysters
Open 1200 (1100 Sat)-2300 (2100 Sun).
Cask beer None, Other beer 3 keg, 10 bottles (mainly stouts and porters), Also 40+ wines including sparkling and sherry.
Food Oysters, seafood, fish, Outdoor Stools and barrels on street.
Wright Brothers Oyster and Porter House, London SE1
Pleasingly, this Borough Market shopfront for Cornish oyster fishery Wright Brothers honours its beer friendly surroundings by foregrounding porters and stouts as the ideal accompaniment to the company’s principle product. The drinks lists goes considerably beyond the obvious Draught Guinness in offering an impressive choice of the dark stuff, appropriately enough for an outlet a stone’s throw from the site of what was once one of the greatest porter brewers in the world, Barclay Perkins. Suppliers include local brewers Kernel and Redchurch as well as Anchor, Harviestoun, Palmers (the oyster stout commissioned by celebrity chef Mark Hix), Meantime, Pitfield, St Peter’s and Whitstable. Decent lager and Kernel IPA are on sale for the roasted malt-shy, and then there’s the more expensive but equally traditional matching option of champagne.
Five varieties of oysters are served, as well as mussels, shrimps, crab, various fish and beef, Guinness and oyster pie: vegetarians will find themselves rather at sea, and prices nudge into posh restaurant territory. Non-diners might be able to squeeze themselves a stool at the bar at quiet times, but this is a small, intimate place with the limited table space reserved for diners, perhaps taking advantage of the seductive bivalve’s reputed aphrodisiac properties, and pre-booking is advised.
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