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Pub in Smithfield. Does steak, opens early. Closed Saturday lunchtime.

Comment added by her welshness: I really liked the food here - its good old fashioned 'home' cooking. Check out the Xmas menu if you happen to be around at that time, it is very Dickensian/the Rules style cooking.

Comment added by DrHyde: At 6:30 on a cold dark winter morning I needed breakfast, so went to the Cock. Steak, liver, kidneys, sossidge, bacon, black pud, egg, a bottomless pot of tea, and a pint of Guinness for a tenner. Result! I was a bit worried when I realised that they'd taken my order without asking how I wanted the steak cooked, but when it arrived, it had been cooked just right - that is, it had had the concept of fire explained to it but no more. It was all really good quality meat, the steak being sooooo tender and juicy. Go there. Now.

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