Mishkins Smishkins...

E.Mishkins "A kind-of Jewish deli with cocktails"...

Okay so there's several things that attracted me to eat here, one being that i enjoy Jewish and american food and two GIN! As i turned up for a lonesome lunch for one at half 12 on a Monday, i read on their front window's divided into 3: SALT BEEF / GIN / MEAT LOAF.
Those are the kind-of words that light my young New Zealand fire, but sadly E.Mishkin's slowly extinguished that fire...

GIN

Cheese schmear. I lol'd. I'm sorry.

The menu.

Gin Ricky. Made with soda water, should of had a G&T.

Chicken Liver with Schmaltzed radish. 

Okay so when this arrived i thought okay cool, rustic, smells good, warm toast and enough of it. This should be okay, but there was a huge piece of onion skin poking out of the pate as soon as i dipped into it. Now i know it's clearly meant to be rustic, but that's not what i wanna be chewing on. It was a bit too rich and i got kind-of bored. The bread was nice. 

Meatloaf, soft egg & mash.

Let's start with the mash, first of all too much butter not enough cream or seasoning and secondly, no gravy? this better be the juiciest meatloaf in London then if no sauce/gravy is needed (no sauce at all was offered). It wasn't that bad but a few mouthfuls into it and i really did need some gravy or something wet to moisten this dish up and add another flavour to it all.

The plate was chipped like this in two other places on the same plate. During my experience as a chef, this would have been sent back. To some this may seem like nothing, but to a chef who would never serve someone food on a chipped plate, this means a lot. I think they're taking this rustic thing too far...

The egg centre. This was actually quite yummy.

"Rustic" I felt like i should empty the can and leave my change in there at the end...

Totally wasn't worth it. I'd rather go to The Diner instead for meatloaf, they might be a big chain but it's better (Ambience, style, music) and as for a place to eat salt beef in London?... Brick Lane, and no where else. A man ordered the salt beef beside me and was telling his friend how it wasn't very good, and for a tener i'd expect it to be RAD.

Meh.

http://mishkins.co.uk/