The Cock’s Head gastropub is located in Shoreditch and Camden and is the dreamchild of my good friends Josh and Oli who I met in Sydney for a few hours when they were exploring the world for flavours.

The Cock’s Head is a pant-shittingly awesome “Food Place” that Josh and Oli set up because they feel it’s totally the good thing to do in this time of Fairness.

It’s the talking place to eat. Predominantly about the NGM in which there is currently a furore taking place among journalists and podcasters who believe that the subjects from whom they make their money are getting rather uppity in this time of new media.

The Cock’s food provenance is seasonal, organic, fair-traded and localised. It’s cheffed by Josh and his team in a new twist on old school brigade cooking – expect guest chefs! OIi makes front of house seem easy with his laid-back but ATD style.

Check out the latest menu:

Starters

• Slate Roasted Garbone of Drayton Bream Flakes with A√Øoli & Lemon (¬£9)
• Phalange of Lamb Bracquet & Pheasant Terrine, Toast & Pickles (¬£8.74)
• Close Grilled Poulet Gris with Aioli & Smoked Paprika (¬£8.55)
• “EC2″ Black Pudding and Egg’n'Bacon Fraise (¬£12)
• Cucumber brioche Sided with Aspic Verjuice (V) (¬£18)

Mains

• Drenched Rebut of Finsbury Veal Sambroise with a Mist of Chive, & Boozey Gardinia jus (¬£30)
• Bukett of flanged Smithfield Tajima-ushi med Jordb√¶r over Koriander with A√Øoli (¬£33)
• Coarse flashed Bass Braised Sea Bass with B√©arnaise sauce & Handcut Chips (¬£20)
• Clotted Ghost Flower Dew with a Side of Seasonal White Veggies with A√Øoli (V) (¬£35)
• A cluster of lamb knuckles, Lemon-Plunged Hand-Picked Dandelion Franks, Gorse & Sauce Gribiche to taste (¬£20)
• Reduction of New Forest Sweetbreads, bone-marrow icecream & a Triad of Buerre. (Check with Oli for availability (¬£?!)

Puddings!

• Red Pudding Paddington Style (¬£15)
• Arborio Rice Pudding with Fleshed Figs (¬£15)
• Nueva Semental Bosque Tartas (¬£18)
• Spotted Dick with Blanched Hand-Drawn Custard (¬£15)

Après Pudding

• “Red wine” & Cheese of the Day with Traditional Pickled Onion A√Øoli (¬£10)
• Cigar Mist over “Poker Hand” Sorbet (¬£15)
• Gentleperson’s Port glace (¬£10)
• Seasonal Cheese Plate with A√Øoli, Piccalilli & Chard Envelopes (¬£12)

Be sure to see the specials board!

Wine and Beer List Coming!

More from The Cock’s Head soon!

Tell you friends and remember the Sunday prize for the best hat, waistcoat, Converse and skinny jeans combination!

Driving down to London from Yorkshire listening to Concerto for Choppers (Part III) it strikes me that putting “…of blood” at the end of nearly anything to create a ‘Cult Movie’.

Here a few that leap to mind:

Circuit of Blood! A speedway tracks holds the terrible secrets of one man and one hundred dead riders.

Wake of Blood! Dennis and Sandy never bargained for terror when they chose their holiday on the Norfolk Broads!

Dinnette of Blood! You are today’s special when Mickey the fry cook comes to play.

Blancmange of Blood! When five restaurant reviewers come together to test Translyvania’s greatest chef, can anyone survive The Blancmange of Blood!?

Saw the Hoodoo Gurus, superb live band… More later.