Tasting Britain
TastingBritain.co.uk - Cafe Mish, Mayfair, London
Tasting Britain got the invite down to Cafe Mish in Mayfair. I suppose the nutshell description for these guys would be a âgourmet sandwich shopâ...theyâre a gourmet sandwich shop. Mish are all about nice things arranged in-between two slices, and though not yet a year old, have been quietly/not quietly building up a local following around lovely Mayfair. They also picked a really buzzing area to set up shop - itâs one of the more âdown to earthâ bits of Mayfair, just off of Piccadilly. Enjoy a quiet sandwich whilst people drinking out front of the pub across the road get progressively more silly (as we did - it was Friday).
Conceived by the people behind Le Menar (Modern Middle Eastern cuisine a little further east - in Fitzrovia): Cafe Mish seats just six and lives on the site of a former pizzeria. The menu is small - mainly sandwiches with two sides (basically chips and soups?), last time I checked. Thereâs also a super small drinks menu - cider, alcoholic iced tea and nothing else boozy on (as far as I can tell). But this is a cafe, what did you expect?
Instead, Mish lean more towards coffees and serving you at earlier times in the day - such as lunch. Itâs definitely a lunch spot, though I suppose if youâre one of those people who actually functions in the morning, you could. People mainly come takeaway - and they do deliver locally. Whatâs on the menu? The specialty is salt beef sandwiches: slow braised salted beef from Hensons, sweet pickle gherkins and dijonnaise on Caraway bread. When we went down theyâd run out of this (which tends to happen here if you show up later in the day). So I opted for the 'Porchetta style slow roast lamb saddle with red onion confit, mint and wild rocket' instead and was not disappointed.
Sandwiches are available in 3 sizes - and what you see here are medium - which seems reasonable enough. No matter what you order, you always get a free side of skinny fries too. As you can hopefully see in the pictures, and like any other good cafe, thereâs an enticing selection of baked things. One of which is a chocolate brownie with a pretzel embedded in it (lol). Back on the subject of sandwiches - they also have monthly specials, which is I think how they trial new recipes. Fun/irrelevant/unnecessary information: skinny fries donât make you skinny :3
TastingBritain.co.uk - Cafe Mish, Mayfair, London
Tasting Britain got the invite down to Cafe Mish in Mayfair. I suppose the nutshell description for these guys would be a âgourmet sandwich shopâ...theyâre a gourmet sandwich shop. Mish are all about nice things arranged in-between two slices, and though not yet a year old, have been quietly/not quietly building up a local following around lovely Mayfair. They also picked a really buzzing area to set up shop - itâs one of the more âdown to earthâ bits of Mayfair, just off of Piccadilly. Enjoy a quiet sandwich whilst people drinking out front of the pub across the road get progressively more silly (as we did - it was Friday).
Conceived by the people behind Le Menar (Modern Middle Eastern cuisine a little further east - in Fitzrovia): Cafe Mish seats just six and lives on the site of a former pizzeria. The menu is small - mainly sandwiches with two sides (basically chips and soups?), last time I checked. Thereâs also a super small drinks menu - cider, alcoholic iced tea and nothing else boozy on (as far as I can tell). But this is a cafe, what did you expect?
Instead, Mish lean more towards coffees and serving you at earlier times in the day - such as lunch. Itâs definitely a lunch spot, though I suppose if youâre one of those people who actually functions in the morning, you could. People mainly come takeaway - and they do deliver locally. Whatâs on the menu? The specialty is salt beef sandwiches: slow braised salted beef from Hensons, sweet pickle gherkins and dijonnaise on Caraway bread. When we went down theyâd run out of this (which tends to happen here if you show up later in the day). So I opted for the 'Porchetta style slow roast lamb saddle with red onion confit, mint and wild rocket' instead and was not disappointed.
Sandwiches are available in 3 sizes - and what you see here are medium - which seems reasonable enough. No matter what you order, you always get a free side of skinny fries too. As you can hopefully see in the pictures, and like any other good cafe, thereâs an enticing selection of baked things. One of which is a chocolate brownie with a pretzel embedded in it (lol). Back on the subject of sandwiches - they also have monthly specials, which is I think how they trial new recipes. Fun/irrelevant/unnecessary information: skinny fries donât make you skinny :3