Balls Brothers - Lime Street
About Balls Brothers - Lime Street
Balls Brothers Lime Street in London's Square Mile is British to its fingertips. The famous vintners' restaurants are popular haunts throughout the City - this one is practically the staff canteen for the Lloyds folk across the street. The trad moss-green dining room with its starchy linens, leather upholstered chairs, antique bookcases, framed prints and sconces is very like a gentlemen's club. And the Balls Brothers menu offers the best of Blighty's cooking: pan-fried calves' liver with crispy bacon and bubble and squeak, and steak and kidney pudding with wild watercress mash are signatures. Richard Balls' wine list ranges from skint to bonus and everything's good.
Sample a la carte
Starter
- Traditional smoked salmon (capers & shallots) £7.95- Morecambe bay potted shrimps (melba/ toast) £8.25
- Wild duck parfait (rhubarb ginger chutney) £6.50
- Home smoked halibut (beetroot & fennel salad) £8.95
Other dishes are available.
Main Course
- Organic salmon fillet (pickeled fennel & beetroot dressing) £16.50- Pan fried skate wing (caper & prawn butter) £18.50
- Roast cod fillet wrapped in cured ham (herb sauce) £18.00
- Grilled seabass fillet (mini fish pie, watercress sauce) £18.50
- Pan-fried calf’s liver (leek & watercress mash, red onion jam) £17.25
- Aylesbury duck (sage potato cake, pink grapefruit sauce) £18.50
Other dishes are available.
Dessert
- Rhubard crumble tart (clotted cream ice cream) £5.00- Double chocolate brulee £5.00
- Spotted dick & custard £5.00
- chefs raspberry jelly & ice cream £5.00
Other desserts are available.