Tramshed in Shoreditch specialise in serving some of the most scintillating steak and chicken dishes in London. To list so few options is beyond bold, and the produce has to be beyond good, which it is. Using quality-sourced meat and poultry products, free-range fowl and British cattle, chef Mark Hix serves sweet, tender chicken and steak at affordable prices. With meals for one or for sharing from £8 a head, Tramshed will feed a family with great value; fries are included in each meal. All this meat is meted out in a turn-of-the-century Grade II-listed industrial building (which once housed the local tram’s electricity generators), a vast room with a soaring ceiling. Light comes in through an enormous arched window, while mezzanine levels break up the floor space. In pride of place is a work by Damien Hirst: a formaldehyde-filled tank containing a preserved bullock and rooster. Puddings run from sweet, fragrant strawberries with Jersey cream to a fiendishly good cheesecake rippled with raspberry coulis. The staff at Tramshed are some of the friendliest we’ve encountered in London. Limited options don’t need to mean limited success, and Tramshed makes two ingredients go a long, long way.
Tramshed
32 Rivington Street
Shoreditch
London
EC2A 3LX
020 7749 0478
http:// www.chickenandsteak.co.uk
Opening hours:
Mon-Wed noon-10pm
Thur, Fri: noon-11pm
Sat: noon-10.30pm
Sun: noon-9.30pm
Transport: Tube: Old Street tube/rail
Price: Main courses £13.50-£20. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £70
Words by Cory Walker-Eastman
@kwamecory