Historical version 3 of Yellow House Bar, SE16 2UE (view current version)
- 020 7231 8777
- 126 Lower Road, SE16 2UE (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
- theyellowhouse.eu
- 5:30pm-midnight (food til 11pm) Mon; 11:30am-midnight (food 11:30am-3:30pm and 5:30pm-11pm) Tue-Fri; 11:30am-midnight (food til 11pm) Sat-Sun
Opened in May 2008, the Yellow House Bar and Kitchen is a sister enterprise to [the Yellow House Restaurant]? down the road. It's located in former pub premises, and some of the fixtures and fittings remain from its previous life.
Kake, doop, [Flick]?, and friends visited on the Sunday lunchtime of a Bank Holiday weekend in May 2008, shortly after the grand opening. A number of service issues were evident - confusion over what people had ordered, bringing the wrong coffee, forgetting to bring the requested tap water - but with any luck these will settle down once the place has been open a bit longer.
The food was pretty good though. Eggs benedict (£6.50) included properly-poached eggs, with a shape clearly indicating that they were poached rather than steamed, and good ham. [Flick]?'s scrambled eggs (£7) also looked very good, with plenty of golden egg colour. doop's lentil and herb burger photo (£9 including chips, salad, and avocado salsa) was quite comically mismatched in size with the (home-made) bun, but he seemed to enjoy it. Kake's smoked haddock fishcakes photo (£10.50 including chips and salad) were fine, though a little dry, and the accompanying mayonnaise was a little bland, despite having a colour that suggested it was home-made rather than Heinz. The chips that came with the fishcakes were actually thin fries, and were fine except their pre-salted nature meant that they only added to the saltiness of the fishcakes to make a rather thirst-inducing whole.
People also seemed to enjoy their desserts; doop was very pleased with his apple and almond tart (£3.50): the tart itself was very good, but its crust was excellent.
They are licensed; as well as a wine list I noted they had Leffe on tap.
Kake's verdict: Will happily come back; I'd like to give the eggs a try. (I wouldn't necessarily recommend you cross London to come here, but it's a very short walk away from us.)
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