london st. brasserie

riverside oracle · 2-4 london st · reading · RG1 4SE
tel 01189 505036 fax 01189 505031
all day every day from 12.00 noon
last food orders 10.30pm (11.00pm fri and sat)

The food is of paramount importance to us at the London Street Brasserie. We aim to cook the best fresh quality produce to exacting standards. Our menus are eclectic, offering a mixture of British, French and Mediterranean cookery in a style of continuity. It is so often the case nowadays that when more than one style of cuisine is offered by a restaurant, this fusion of style becomes a confusion.

Paul Clerehugh · owner

• Bread & olives £1.25

Oysters & caviar

• Half dozen Irish rock oysters served with the traditional accompaniments £6.95
• Half dozen oysters rockafella baked on the shell with spinach, British ‘Parma’ ham and hollandaise £7.95
• 30g Oscietra caviar, herb cured salmon blinis & miniature bottle of frozen Smirnoff £35.00

Starters

• Crispy fried salt & pepper squid, oriental salad, chilli dressing £6.90
V Individual goat’s cheese soufflé, orange & watercress salad, baby beetroot, garlic, croutons, toasted walnuts £6.80
• Brasserie herbed pancake filled with ham, spinach and mushrooms, baked with kirsch and gruyère cream £7.00
• Seared scallops, grilled black pudding, creamed potatoes, apple compôte, red wine jus £10.00
V Truffled wild mushroom and mozzarella risotto cakes, roquette and parmesan £7.00
• Charcuterie board of interesting and unusual Italian mountain air cured salamis, including acciatora, finocchiona and cervalate; kalamata olives, cornichons, baby ripieni-rustica balsamic onions £7.50
• Cured sushi salmon, Asian crunch salad, wasabi mayonnaise £7.00
• Crispy fried ham hock, roquette salad, poached egg, sauce gribiche £7.00
• Brasserie seafood salad: king prawn, cuttlefish, baby scallops marinated in coconut milk, lemon grass, lime leaf, garlic and chilli £8.00
• Foie gras & duck liver parfait, toasted brioche, red onion marmalade £7.00
• Oriental spiced crab cakes, avocado salsa, lemon & coriander £7.00
• Warm pink pan fried pigeon breasts, sweet corn pancakes, spinach, port jus £7.75
V Individual short crust onion tartlet, gratinated with cheddar, fresh tomato & basil sauce £6.75 (As a larger main course portion with roast Mediterranean vegetables & spinach, roast pine nuts, raisins £12.50)

V = vegetarian dish

Main course dishes

• Pan fried sea bass fillet, sauté baby squid, roast Mediterranean vegetables, salsa verde £16.50
• Monkfish fillet baked with tapenade in serrano ham, roast sweet potato, red onion and confit tomato, green herb dressing £17.50
• Seared blue fin tuna loin, sauté bok choi, pickled ginger, lime, chilli & sesame oil dressing, crab & coriander won ton £16.50
• Roast cod, pancetta crisps, puy lentils, broad beans, olives & tomato, parmentier potato, red wine jus £16.50
• Free range chicken breast baked with goat’s cheese in pancetta, warm chorizo salad, puy lentil, roquette, crispy potato, herb mustard dressing £15.75
• Pan fried English calves’ liver, locally dry cured bacon, mash, roast shallots, good claret gravy £16.80
• Peppered duck breast, rosti potato, shitake mushrooms and pak choi, warm chilli soy vinaigrette £16.80
• Grilled local old spot pork cutlet, crackling, celeriac fondant, calvados roast apple, parsley carrots; red wine, shallot & cornichon sauce £16.80
• Roast rump of lamb ‘Orvieto’, pink carved with Tuscan country vegetables, broad beans, fennel, red wine rosemary jus £16.80
• Pink carved venison fillet, McSween’s haggis, figs, baby spinach, port redcurrant & juniper sauce £20.00
• Sirloin steak, béarnaise sauce, watercress, roast field mushroom and vine tomato £20.00
  Generous 10oz cut of month hung organic local beef.
• Aberdeen Angus beef fillet, foie gras butter, rosti potato, buttered spinach, sauté wild mushrooms, red wine jus £25.00
V Crispy gruyère polenta cake, olives and confit garlic, spinach mascarpone and parmesan dumplings, rich tomato and basil fondue £13.50
V Spanish tapas board £14.00
  Catalanes spinach, toasted pine nuts, raisins • Olives • Baked tortilla • Bodegas bean salad • Crispy fried tapenade goat’s cheese pastry • Roast Mediterranean vegetables

V = vegetarian dish

Extras

• Chips £3.00
• Mash £3.00
• Dauphinoise £3.80
• Buttered spinach £3.80
• Parsley carrots £3.00
• Sugar snaps tossed with chilli & sesame £3.50
• Mixed salad £3.50
• Roquette and parmesan £3.50

Cheese, Savoury, and Desserts

• four British and Irish cheeses, biscuits, chutney and celery £7.25
  Cashel Blue Clean tangy soft blue, Jersey and Friesian milk, unpasteurised
  Gold Cross Goat Light and delicate, ash matured one month, unpasteurised
  Stinking Bishop Pungent, runny single Gloucester washed in perry; pasteurised Friesian
  Montgomery Cheddar 9 month old traditional Somerset cheddar, unpasteurised cow’s milk
• Brasserie ice cream knickerbocker glory £6.00
• Eton mess £5.75
• Lemon curd & clotted cream mousse, with sherbet and biscotti £5.75
• Blackberry & apple crumble, custard sauce £5.75**
• Sticky toffee pudding, butterscotch sauce, clotted cream £6.00
• Vanilla panacotta with mango soup, mango & orange £6.20
• Dark & milk chocolate cheesecake, white chocolate ice cream £6.50
• Hot caramel soufflé, rum and raisin ice cream £6.50**
• Vanilla crème brûlée, almond biscotti £5.25
• Warm banana pancakes, whipped cream, chocolate sauce £6.50
  ** Baked to order and will take a little longer.
  * All desserts, ice cream and sorbet are homemade on the premises.

Tea, Coffee and Petits Fours

• A selection of infusions, rooibos chai & teas £2.25
• Espresso £2.25
• Double Espresso £2.65
• Cappuccino £2.65
• A selection of brasserie petits fours £3.00
  Milky bar dipped strawberries • homemade dark chocolate truffles • white chocolate fudge

PLEASE NOTE: our kitchen contains nuts

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