Mishkins & The Brass Rail

Dumpling

So the other Sunday me & my friend Jason were in the Covent Garden area feeling a little peckish for a snack rather then a full blown meal so we popped along to Mishkins, http://mishkins.co.uk/?referrer=true "A kind of Jewish Deli" as they call themselves. It was around 4 in the afternoon so they didn't have the full menu on, to late for lunch & to early for dinner.

They had a couple of things we wanted to try & I went for the "Chicken matzo ball soup" & a Strawberry malted milkshake. The matzo ball is a Jewish dumpling in soup & in general the soup was pretty tasty. Pretty simple I suppose, a few bits of carrot & chicken here & there but was nice & warming & a good snack. The milkshake was not bad to.

Jason tried the "Severn & Wye lox beigel with house schmear" & went for a chocolate malted milkshake. As beigels go it was very tasty salmon with cream cheese & served with a perfectly cooked runny egg. Not sure if it was better then a beigel on brick lane but very tasty & I believe the chocolate shake was good to.

Banana pud

Had to try a dessert so we went for the "Bananas foster" which is bananas cooked with butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, rum & then vanilla ice cream scooped on top. It was pretty damn tasty & me & Jason had actually created something like this before but didn't know it actually had a name. Basically it was a comfort dessert, boozy & stodgey, in a good way.

Mishkins is a pretty cool place, you can sit at the bar as well & they do nice looking cocktails. Service was a little slow & maybe disorganized but friendly & I really want to go back to try there "Reuben on rye" which they apparently toast. The Reuben is not always which brings me to....

The Brass Rail at Selfridges! I went there with Tony (my bro) to try out there Reuben. A Reuben is basically salt beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, gherkin & Russian dressing. It's a whopper of a sandwich!

The Reuben!

It's been a famous spot in Selfridges food hall for a long time & we queued up with our tray & ordered a Reuben on rye bread each, I believe they usually serve it on sourdough bread but Tony explained how heavy & large it is, so the main carver who has been there over 33 years apparently, carved us up a Reuben on rye.

It was so big that I had to split the sandwich in half. It was tasty, the salt beef moist & the sauerkraut tangy & sweet. It did need some sort of punch so we ended up smearing loads of sachets of Colmans English mustard on. Overall very tasty & very large, though you can definitely share it with someone rather then getting a whole one each. It was a struggle to finish so had to leave the bread & just eat the contents. Mishkins for the Reuben next I think...