Going Out | Restaurants

Critic's choice: Where to eat pork

Pork with style: setting the scene for Magdalen's carefully prepared food
10 April 2012

Charles Campion has the perfect place in mind for anyone wanting to feast on suckling pig or tuck into some cracking crackling...

Magdalen
152 Tooley Street, SE1
Bermondsey newcomer serves well-cooked, carefully sourced food. Dishes like Middle White pork with purple-sprouting broccoli and mustard sauce are delicious. Spot the influence of St John and the Anchor & Hope. £30pp ex-drinks (020 7403 1342).

Rivington
28-30 Rivington Street, EC2
At the Rivington, the bar menu offers a "Suckling pig bap with apple sauce, £5.50" and very good it is, too. To eat the whole suckling pig you have only to order one of the "feasts" for eight or more people. £30pp ex-drinks. (020 7729 7053).

Lee Ho Fook
4 Macclesfield Street, W1
Meals-on-a-plate operation dishes up various barbecued meats on a pile of rice. Step around the sweet char sui pork and go for the fatty, luxurious, "crispy belly pork". Perfect for any lover of crackling and remarkably cheap. £8pp ex-drinks (020 7494 1200).

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