Cask

Cask
6 Charlwood street
£53

Its not in the best looking building, but don’t let that put you off. They have between 6 to 8 real ales on tap every week and it changes. There has obviously been a lot of work done to the interior including a light blonde floor and an English moss green on the walls. For an early Saturday eve it had a good number of people eating very large burgers. I had smoked salmon with, and this was interesting, avocado and dill salsa. Smoked salmon is fairly standard fare. The salsa however was really enjoyable. For a main I ordered grilled swordfish on spinach. What I got was pan fried swordfish with spinach. Having said that I thought it was good. Swordfish can easily be over cooked and get dried out and it was not the case here. The spinach was OK. My critiques are that I thought I had detected a bit of sand in the spinach and the swordfish had a bit of remnant oil from the pan.
I will go back if for nothing else than to try some of the many beers they have.
MP

Here is a link from google. Don’t let the Pimlico Tram fool you, that is clearly old.

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The good thing about pigging out in Pimlico is that we are going to try out places we wouldn’t normally go to. However Pimlico isn’t a walk on the wild side so the ‘let’s try somewhere different’ isn’t exactly a dare. Compared to the Intrepid Fox in Soho how scary could this be? Well not at all actually it is a very nice pub. On an early Saturday evening it was busy and I couldn’t help noticing that most of the other diners were going for huge and tasty looking burgers. We dared to be different. My warm pumpkin and mushroom salad was tasty – very big for a starter but I wolfed it all. Then I had a nice tomoatoey pasta dish with very generous mozzarella chunks on top. It was all really nice and I was surprised that MP headed for the wine list rather than the huge selection of exciting looking beers. However he is on a mission to come back to see if there is anything to compare with his favourite tipple, Meantime Beers. Relaxing place and the candles are a nice touch.
HP