Best meal ever...Pigs Cheek

[neil_bolton]

Well last night, celebrating a new page in our lives, my wife to be and I went to The Kensington Arms for dinner.

Already one of our favourite restaurants, a michelin starred pub food restaurant, we went anticipating our next choices.

I'm just going to say one thing as a result:

Pig's Cheek.

Simply the best thing I've ever tasted.

All the other stuff was nice, but the Pig's cheek was to die for.

I'll be off this week to find some to cook myself (and book in for a heartattack next year).

[neil_bolton]

OzzyR1 said:

neil_bolton said:

Well last night, celebrating a new page in our lives, my wife to be and I went to The Kensington Arms for dinner.

Already one of our favourite restaurants, a michelin starred pub food restaurant, we went anticipating our next choices.

I'm just going to say one thing as a result:

Pig's Cheek.

Simply the best thing I've ever tasted.

All the other stuff was nice, but the Pig's cheek was to die for.

I'll be off this week to find some to cook myself (and book in for a heartattack next year).

How was it cooked??

I believe braised. It was certainly soft as anything, and ever so slight steakified if you will.

Lovely

[neil_bolton]

ritmo said:

Amused to see pigs cheek on a Michelin menu; I remember eating it as a kid. It was roasted and eaten cold. A bit like cold roast belly pork with quite a high fat-to-meat ratio. I think the dish was also known as 'chap' or 'chaps'. It was tasty but then I hadn't heard of cholesterol then. I vividly remember the the pigs bared teeth where the skin had shrunk back through the roasting.

Indeed it was refered to chap - Bath Chap to be exact.