Real Eating Company named as one of the top 150 most influential hospitality businesses
Restaurant Magazine has named the Real Eating Company as one of the top 150 most influential and innovative hospitality businesses in the UK in its R150 list.
The Real Eating Company is described as having “a fantastically laid-back vibe” and a “concept that is not that unusual but it’s rarely done as well and as naturally as this.”
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This all day deli/brasserie with its cheese counter, aroma of saffron and neat rows of tables offers a short menu with an imaginative choice. Some dishes may have southern European influences, others draw on ingredients from the delicatessen, but the cooking has an underlying simplicity that works well. A dish of crabmeat, for example, the dark and white meat separated carefully, was enhanced with fresh herbs such as tarragon, while the timing of fish (a fillet of sea bream, say) is immaculate. A late May menu was an exemplar of what seasonal English cooking should be: asparagus soup, tender guinea fowl resting on a bed of finely cooked asparagus and broad beans, and a delicate rhubarb fool. Decent wines and service ? this can be stretched with a full house ? sums up a place that displays genuine enthusiasm and knowledge as well as respect for fine food.
The Real Eating format has caught on in Sussex (there are branches in Lewes and Horsham too). It?s all-day dining on most days of the week, starting with breakfast of eggs royale and fresh fruit with Greek yoghurt, going through lunches where you might follow onion and cider soup with fishcakes and mayonnaise, all the way to a good-value-fixed-price dinner menu, which deals in the likes of chargrilled squid salad and seared tuna with green beans, fennel and lemon. Indeed, if you brought your laptop, you might get installed here for a whole day. A la carte dining in the evening becomes a little more elaborate, perhaps offering rack of lamb with fondant potato, spring greens, onion confit and seared vine tomatoes. House Italian is £14, and there is an inspired choice by-the-glass between £4 and £6.
