Le Querce: Sardinian restaurant, no where near the Tube

10th November
Another trip south of the River for a family meal. This time in picturesque Brockley/Forest Hill borders.
In an totally unassuming row of local shops, next to a greasy spoon cafe is a focus of Italian sophistication. There is a fairly upbeat and comprehensive web site at http://lequerce.co.uk/ .
What it does not tell you is that this appears to be a family orientate restaurant serving very Italian tasting food that is something different. The menu is supplemented by a huge specials list, and they seem very keen to offer something slightly out of the ordinary and likely to make people come back.
I had a fairly boring meal. For starter, I had a pasta:

Tagliolini al Ragú

This as you can see is a ribbon style pasta with a meat ragu sauce. The thing is that this actually tasted like the food did in Italy in September. It was hot scoring an 8.5 on the CHOF scale and extremely tasty.

For main course I had

Costolette di Agnello

I asked for this to be medium and it was probably the high end of medium but in no way overcooked, and also scored about an 8 to 8.5 on the CHOF scale. I had accompanying french fries.

I had a fairly boring house special tiramasu for desert

but the house attraction was the home made ice cream in a variety of bizarre flavours which included
Pepperoncino (Chilli Pepper) Caffé (Coffee) Rabarbaro (Rhubarb) Mirto e era (Myrtleberry and Pear) Banana, Cardamomo e Zenzero (Banana, Cardamom and Ginger)Banana e semi di senape (Banana and mustard seeds) Agilo o Cipolla (Onion or Garlic) Zucca e Amaretto (Pumpkin and Amaretto) Melanzana (Aubergine) Zafferano (Saffron)

I tried the chilli the garlic and the banana cardamon and ginger. These were 'interesting' and it was probably for the best that portion sizes were not huge.

Without wine, the bill came to about £25 per head, so it was not cheap, but was a good repeat worthy experience with hot food.