A West End restaurant championing British produce has a conveyor belt of “cheese dreams” running along its bar.
Found in Covent Garden’s Seven Dials Market, Pick & Cheese by The Cheese Bar serves its selection of dishes from a conveyor belt.
Cheeses are British and come paired with condiments, crackers and accompaniments and under a glass cover which you can pluck from a train of small plate dishes that whizz past your spot at the bar.
As the selection change regularly, it’s a good way to try a couple of new cheeses out. You can also pair your plates with wines too.
Dishes include Cumbrian ricotta served with sea salt and amaena cherries, Cenarth brie which comes with chili jam, truffle spenwood from Berkshire served with roasted potatoes and Yarlington with candied peanuts.
You can even get a serve of Stilton that come with a chocolate and hazelnut brownie, or a wedge of St Ella goat cheese that comes with a piece of Turkish delight.
For dessert, there’s a whipped goat cheese doughnut and a yoghurt, lemon and honey cheesecake.
Dishes are colour coded, and start from £3.95 for the cream plates, to £6.25 for the yellow plates.
For people who believe too much cheese is not enough, on Wednesdays, The Cheese Bar offers unlimited cheese and charcuterie plates from the belt for 1 hour and 15 minutes for £28 per person.
Diners can also order off-belt also for dishes that are a little more substantial, but light enough. The off-belt menu includes a cheese and onion grilled sandwich, or a goat cheese, honey and walnut toastie.
For something a little more decadent, the baked Yarlington or Tunworth – the English equivalent to Camembert - are designed to be shared between two and the Stilton ice-cream with a port pour-over may sound weird, but it works.
The Cheese Bar has two sister venues in London, the newly opened Cheese Barge in Paddington Central and The Cheese Bar in Camden Stables Market opposite the Amy Winehouse statue.
There’s also The Cheese Truck which serves cheese toasties across the UK, and cheese and wine shop Funk on Columbia Road in east London.
Find Pick & Cheese at Seven Dials Market, WC2H 9AU and visit thecheesebar.com for more information.
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