the little room
Parties & private dining
Sometimes you just want to close the door. Whether it’s to discuss hush-hush business deals or simply keep a group of animated friends at bay, we’re happy to leave you to it in our Little Room. We have a range of menus to suit every event – from meeting to dinner party – and a dedicated events department to make it happen.
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ORAMICS TO ELECTRONICA, 'TIL 31st DEC
Arts & Culture
Charting the development of electronic music from its humble bleep-bleep beginnings in back garden sheds to the essential wop-wop of mainstream dubstep today, this Science Museum exhibition celebrates the make-do-and-mend ingenuity of computer generated sound from 1950 to the last Grimes single.
The show highlights the work of three pioneering British studios alongside iconic instruments, home-built synthesizers and one-off inventions. Reminiscent of Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, there’s even a sound-drawing Oramics Machine.
LONDON BRIDGE OPEN KITCHEN
Wednesday 15th May
We always knew the young community around Bermondsey Street had the potential to foster some great dining, but never did we imagine it would propagate a world class foodie scene, and certainly not one that continues to grow at an explosive, exponential rate. But here we are, not just a handful of good places to eat, but a whole bag of top restaurants on our doorstep, artisan producers, markets and suppliers.
On May 15th, Team London Bridge are bringing together some of these neighbourhood favourites for an evening festival in the White Cube’s courtyard. We’ll be serving up some tasters alongside Pizzaro, Platterfom, Brigade and Constancia with Cave looking after drinks.
Kitchen hours
Mon – Fri
Lunch: 12pm – 3pm
Dinner: 6pm – 10.30pm
Saturday
Breakfast: 9am – 2pm
Brunch: 12pm – 4pm
Dinner: 6pm – 10.30pm
Sunday
Breakfast: 9am – 2pm
Brunch: 12pm – 5pm
Dinner: 6pm – 10pm
LUNCH SPECIALS
Sat 18th May
Asparagus, avocado mousse, gazpacho vinaigrette - 5.9
Tuna carpaccio, pickled ginger, pink grapefruit - 6.8
Thai beef salad, chilli, ginger, basil & coriander - 6.9
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Fettuccine, chilli, greens & ricotta - 11.5
Roast pollock, panzanella, basil dressing - 14.8
Baby cuttlefish stew, chickpeas, parsley, focaccia bruschetta - 14.0
ON THE SUBJECT OF BRUNCH
“It’s not quite breakfast, it’s not quite lunch, but it comes with a slice of cantaloupe at the end. You don’t get completely what you would at breakfast, but you get a good meal.”
- as said Jacques to Marge, the Simpsons, Season 1.
We make no promises of cantaloupe at the end, but we can assure you of a quick bite over the weekend papers or a lazy afternoon with many a Bloody Mary.
FUCK YEAH BRUTALISM
Reading Material
Whilst we were recently seeking out inspiration for our ground floor’s make over (did we not mention? Expect completion June sometime), this homage to the concrete monoliths of post-war architecture crossed our path.
Utilitarian and totalitarian in both form and function, many of these cold, fortress-like constructions were designed to meet the need for practical, low-cost buildings but later became synonymous with urban decay as the materials weathered poorly and the vast smooth surfaces were prone to vandalism.
The blog might even convert the staunchest opponents to the beauty of the Trellick Tower.
LITTLE BIG DETAILS
Reading Material
It’s a celebration of pedantry, an unabashed appreciation of the impact of minutiae.
Little Big Details largely focuses on the small moments of humanity in the digital world – Facebook’s language option for ‘English – Pirate’, Bandcamp’s option to play Defender with your stats, how the lamps on Blom and Blom light up when you hover over them… Heaven.
CABIN PORN
Reading material
The true wonder of the internet is not that it allows endless exchange of information, free speech and cat pictures, but rather a meeting place for obsessives worldwide.
There’s nothing like a quick lunchtime browse through pictures of every desolately-placed cabin across the planet to make you drift off into a heady lull of fairytale and lost world utopia.
Elvis Lives
18 May 2013 | 9:09 am
LICHTENSTEIN, A RETROSPECTIVE, 'TIL 27th MAY
Arts & Culture
After a few tenuous, lightweight shows of late, the Tate Modern has pulled together over 125 definitive works for the first full-scale exhibition of American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein in 20 years.
Best known for comic strip and advertising imagery, brightly coloured with hand painted Benday dots, Lichtenstein’s media-taunting dry wit could probably comfortably rival some of Sacha Baron Cohen’s finest characters, but without subjecting us to endless mankinis.
Simple things
The Gianelli family has been baking some the finest, authentic Italian sour doughs in Bermondsey for over 40 years – and we’re fortunate to be just across the road.
no room for dessert
Sometimes even the most carefree of us feel pressured to forego dessert. Thankfully, coffee is exempt, as are digestifs, so a cocktail which embodies all these formidable after-dinner indulgences escapes the same fate of restraint dessert so often suffers. It’s definitely not cheating.
SPRING NEGRONI
SECRET RECIPES
A lighter variation on one of the most enduring classic aperitifs. We age ours for 3 weeks in oak barrels, but if you can’t wait (or more to the point, don’t have a barrel at home) it’s still pretty excellent to drink right away.
25ml Beefeater gin
25ml Lillet Blanc
25ml Aperol
2 dashes grapefruit bitters
Build over cubed ice in a rocks glass, give it a quick stir and garnish with grapefruit zest.
I found shrimp in the mountains that's better than Florida !! :)) #alamorocks #cocktaillove # tastytreats
18 May 2013 | 7:59 am
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The Good Food Guide 2013
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Olive Magazine, Sept 2012
Bermondsey Street wins 'Britain's Best Dining Road' as part of Olive's Alternative Restaurant Awards. Read More
