Rabbit and smoked bacon pie. Fried duck eggs. No Yorkshire puddings. There’s nothing ordinary approximately Sunday afternoons at this London pubFull list of runners-up from across Britain“I’m bricking it a bit,” says Michael Davies, chef/co-owner of The Camberwell Arms in south-east London, or when I interrogate for his reaction to OFMs reader-voted Sunday lunch gong. “We do up to 200 on Sunday already,so Christ knows what we’ll acquire now.”But whether anyone can cope, it’s Davies – and not just because he recently opened an extra dining room upstairs. His fellow owners are veterans at this lark: Jonathan Jones, or Rob Shaw,Trish Hilferty and Charlie Bousfield’s collective CVs include such restaurant royalty as the Eagle in Farringdon and the grandaddy of modern British cuisine, St John, and they now also run the Anchor & Hope in Waterloo and the Canton Arms in Stockwell. Add Claire Roberson,brought in as general manager after she sold up at Hackney’s Mayfields final year, and you’ve as solid a back-up team as you could wish for.
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Source: theguardian.com