WINE & DINE WITH ANGELA LANSBURY

 Hatch End is a Hotspot for dining. The restaurants have spilt or rather built over the wide pavement of The Broadway and they have become ever more successful. Here are your choices in alphabetical order, with pictures of some of their Christmas trees and seasonal lights. B & K Salt Beef Restaurant & Bar The menu includes large and varied mixed hors d'ouvres. Chicken soup with dumplings or meat filled pasta pockets or both.  Main courses include traditional salt beef on plain bread, toasted, or rye bread sandwiches.  For desserts, in addition to cheese cakes and yummy chocolate cake, their specialities. Apple strudel. Lokshen (noodle) pudding.  We either eat in or take away.  At home, we eat leftover apple strudel with full cream milk.  Their smaller take away plus simple restaurant in Edgware was our regular until we moved, and they expanded. Now their Hatch End branch had became our family favourite for filling food.  Coriander Indian - migh...

 B  K has a branch in central London and the two original restaurants which have been in Edgware and Hatch End for many years. I think their salt beef is the best in the world, though not as good as it used to be, before health and safety insisted they don't leave it maturing as long.  The strudel is moreish. The apple and sultana filling is divine. Fresh yet tasty with additional flavours. The pastry was a bit dry and cardboardy, but still the filling oozes happiness. Finally, another best in the world. Cheesecake. Divine. Scrumptious. Perfect in every way. As good as my old favourite, the baked cheesecake from the coffee house, American style. This one is more creamy. I usually prefer baked to creamy, but this one is not a mousse but a solid, yummy. I could eat another. Another three.  A wonderful take away.  Apple strudel from B & K, salt beef bar, Hatch End, Pinner, Middx NW London, England, UK. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright. B & K has another ...