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Evening Standard
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Joanna Taylor and Douglas Blyde

Set menu: London gets the deep fat fryer treatment

If you’re reading this, it’s too late: you’re about to cast aside the prospect of living a healthier lifestyle in favour of fried food. And, honestly? You won’t be sorry once you’ve bitten into one of these unusual, crispy creations fresh from the deep fat fryer.

At a handful of eateries championing British cuisine, it’s all about reinventing old classics. Cafe Cecilia’s deep fried bread and butter pudding, sprinkled with sugar and served with cold custard, is Instagram famous for a reason, while at Mount Street Restaurant there’s crisped-up bubble and squeak with HP sauce hollandaise, and St John Marylebone is plating up a sizzling version of its gooey, classic Welsh rarebit.

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