At The Chalk Freehouse in Chelsea, Tom Kerridge has decided that simply letting the dog into the pub is no longer enough: now it gets its own Sunday lunch.
“The Dog’s Dinner”, launched at the end of August and running every Sunday through autumn, is a complimentary roast for dogs whose owners are eating from the pub’s Sunday menu. Developed with fresh dog food brand Butternut Box, it includes pork, dog-friendly roast potatoes, crushed carrot and Yorkshire pudding. The human sitting opposite is likely to be eating 30-day dry-aged rib-eye. Nobody, human or otherwise, needs to suffer the indignity of looking longingly at anybody else’s plate.