Adam Eats Food.: Ben's Canteen

Ben's Canteen on St Johns Hill in Clapham is usually heaving most days and most definitely every weekend. You'd reckon that was the case because of their amazing food or maybe it's just the fact Gordon Ramsay has been seen eating there a few times, who knows why.. because it sucks..

It was saturday about 11am and the inside of my head resembled the day after a Michael Barrymore pool party. My friend's are i weren't feeling good and needed booze & food ASAP on this wonderfully sunny day. We only waited about 20 minutes for a table and were seen to quite quickly about drinks, which unfortunately were forgotten about, 15 minutes later they arrived (a pint & a bloody mary).

So lets get to the food, as far as the burgers went the beef, pork & chicken were juicy, the coleslaw inside the burgers was overloaded with mustard making the whole burger taste of mustard, no one enjoyed it and the sweet potato chips were a little sparse. I ordered sweetcorn fritters with a poached egg as a side, the bacon was like rubber and the fritters were still raw and i couldn't finish them, they tasted of nothing but pancake batter with lumps of sweetcorn in them. I dont know where they get their eggs from but they're very average and tasteless, when other cafes use eggs like Burford Brown and other great quality eggs you'd think somewhere like Ben's Canteen would source their ingredients with a little more passion, it sets you apart from any old 'caff'.

All in all, disappointing. My fritters were free thank fuck.