B & K Salt beef bar, restaurant, take away, is the still place for salt beef sandwiches and lokshen pudding.
Lunchtime they have a meal deal of starter and dessert for about £11.
Several restaurants in Hatch End offer similar set lunch prices.
Here's the noodle soup.
One of my fellow diners wanted the salt beef and we decided to have two different main courses so they had the salt beef and I had the turkey. I was offered cold or hot turkey and optional gravy. You could choose chips or latke (potato cake as you see) or salad. I was surprised not to get meat and two veg, potato and one other. But one of us had salad and the other the potato latke so that gave us a healthy mixture. We did not go hungry!
How was it?
Anything missing? Yes. A green vegetable with my main course. The piece of rye bread I was expecting with the soup or salt beef. I suspected that 'you get what you pay for' and the rye bread comes with salt beef in the evenings. When I asked about the rye bread I'd expected they said as they were busy at lunch time they'd forgotten.
My latke was a bit thin, compared to the good old days. However, we bought apple strudel and lokshen pudding (noodle pudding). The lokshen pudding had the usual lemon taste. De-liscious!
Whilst I was only 80% satisfied, my two companions were 100% satisfied. That adds up to 280 out of 300. Would we go back? Yes. Next time I recommend sticking to the a la carte, going for salt beef, and making sure of getting rye bread.
Lunchtime they have a meal deal of starter and dessert for about £11.
Several restaurants in Hatch End offer similar set lunch prices.
Here's the noodle soup.
This is the soup with dumplings. (Kneidlach.)
Another highly calorific starter is the chopped liver, attractively served with three round pieces of matzah (crackers).
One of my fellow diners wanted the salt beef and we decided to have two different main courses so they had the salt beef and I had the turkey. I was offered cold or hot turkey and optional gravy. You could choose chips or latke (potato cake as you see) or salad. I was surprised not to get meat and two veg, potato and one other. But one of us had salad and the other the potato latke so that gave us a healthy mixture. We did not go hungry!
How was it?
Anything missing? Yes. A green vegetable with my main course. The piece of rye bread I was expecting with the soup or salt beef. I suspected that 'you get what you pay for' and the rye bread comes with salt beef in the evenings. When I asked about the rye bread I'd expected they said as they were busy at lunch time they'd forgotten.
My latke was a bit thin, compared to the good old days. However, we bought apple strudel and lokshen pudding (noodle pudding). The lokshen pudding had the usual lemon taste. De-liscious!
Whilst I was only 80% satisfied, my two companions were 100% satisfied. That adds up to 280 out of 300. Would we go back? Yes. Next time I recommend sticking to the a la carte, going for salt beef, and making sure of getting rye bread.
