Restaurant review: Albert's Table

Croydon can visit the largest Asian restaurant in Britain, but it is the first-class French bistro should

49 b / c South End, Croydon (020 8680 2010). Eating for two, including wine and service, £ 90

It was pure stubbornness, which sent me to Albert's Table in Croydon. Or an instinct of self-preservation. Or the strip of snobbery running through me like the knotty varicose veins in the legs of an old dear. The fact is that, as a seeker of truth, there is only one story in Croydon food that i should really cover now: the arrival of the largest restaurant in Britain. Cosmo has room for 800 people, has a menu of 300 dishes from nine Asian countries – why settle for sushi when you have Rogan Josh, too? – 10 cooking stations and a live Bengal tiger in a cage. All this is true, except for the final piece, although I would not be surprised if there are a large cat in a corner somewhere stowed. It is the type of place. It reads like a restaurant on steroids.

What is most irritating about Cosmo is that it is all so damn predictable Croydon. I do not mean this as an insult to all the good, civilized, tasteful, attractive people who live there. I mean, if only as an insult to all the bad, rowdy, tasteless, ugly. Maybe this year I will have the will. But now I could not honestly. And yet I did not want to butt to London's southernmost edge, so I went instead to Albert's Table, a solid, stable restaurant knocking sound and robust dishes full of flavors that wander after you are finished. Albert's Table does not subtle – and I mean that as a compliment. If it offers an ingredient you taste the ingredients. In the main it is French bistro food, with the occasional nod to other directions that do not feel forced.

A short crust pastry tart of Dorset crab with rust-brown meat and bread, the cracks and breaks in the right direction. A salad of bitter endive, blue cheese and chives with a mustard dressing that makes his presence known. A thick-occupied Jerusalem artichoke gratin of thin sliced with hazel nuts, the kind of crust that you are picking away at it with a spoon.

The court was the last moment before some serious meat to cook vegetarian, based on slicks by huge flavored jus, and a lot of hot stews and fry campaign. The network read complicated, but it is useful to be related to the plate or in the case of a game dish for two people in the big pan on the table at the bottom, a stew of braised bambi shoulder with turnip and parsnip, bound by the type of sauce , that speaks of things being long and slow cooked to their essence. At the top some slices of leg fat of the land was pink. The only off-note was some pretty bready dumplings. A mixed plate of pork, and slowly roasted and abdomen, with a lock of crackling, soft polenta and black roots was a deserved end for the pig in question. And that's what comes through most of the food here: a care and attention to detail, especially in the beef with mushrooms and celery. They serve the roast beef. For as we all know, should not more than fillet that is cooked. Or, as the menu puts it: "If you prefer your beef well done, we recommend the appointment of the local spring blade Hereford beef stew." So do I.

We finished with a tumescent banana soufflé, chocolate fondant and a leaky caramelized apple tart, which was for my taste, the only court that had not been delivered. The fruit was blackened, but it was not a hint of your actual lip-stick caramel. Hey ho. It was start a pokey borlotti bean mousse and warm mince pies to finish, and do the general role and thrum happy waiter what they do best. In complement to £ 29.50 for three courses, with the odd, it does not seem extortionate for this level of cooking and the quality of the ingredients. Plus there's the added benefit of a wine list, prices bottles £ 3-4 down to what you pay in central London.

like Cosmo's arrival in Croydon a reason to go there to simply refer to it and stare, Albert's Table is a reason to go there to eat.

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