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Bank Holiday Weekend at Ben’s Canteen

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Long weekends are designed for one big chill out session and we’d like to think that Ben’s Canteen is here to help you chill even more.

We’re open everyday from 9am for indulgent brunches and a range of brunch drinkies: awesome Bloody Mary’s, Aperol Spritzs and, Ben’s favourite brunch time tipple, Marmalade Martinis.

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And then from 5pm each night we’ll be serving up dirty burgers and other bites alongside cocktails, beers and wine.

Also, this Bank Holiday, we’re delighted to be hosting a Sunday night pop-up from the brilliant Well Kneaded. It’s a food truck, started by a couple of local ladies, who serve amazing Firebread from their wood fired oven (in the wagon). The pop-up starts from 5pm, click here for more details and to check out the menu.

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Have a good one!

Good times at Ben’s Canteen for August Bank Holiday Week

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This week is all about good times, it’s very much Summer holiday season and this weekend is a Bank Holiday and Carnival.

We suggest you take it easy this week, if you really do have to work then work from home or go in late. Hit up the Canteen for some brunch action (and free WiFi); sweet corn fritters with avocado and bacon sound good to us as do fish cakes, a daily changing salad and a smoked salmon bagel with great coffee, smoothies and juices and, if you’re really kicking back, Bloody Mary’s. Oh, and if you’re hanging from too much good times we’ve got a mighty Full English for you. We serve brunch from 9am to 4pm.

Of course holidays are really all about partying into the night and we’re open all week to help you do exactly that. Headliners are,

Friday night is set to be huge and one of the foodie led parties of the summer, please note you need to buy your tickets in advance and online – click here for full details. Sunday and Monday will be lots of fun as we ditch our normal dinner menu in favour of a Caribbean inspired menu, including patties, rotis and jerk chicken – click here to see it in full.

Road Trip Dinner at Ben's Canteen

Canteen Weekender

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Summer really is meant to be here this weekend, we’ll have all the doors open and the fans on – come chill on the hill for good times.

Below is a little list of what’s going down over the weekend and coming up…

Remember we’re open for brunch and dinner from 9am till late all weekend.

  • Dinner on Saturday and Sunday starts at 6pm and if you book before 7pm you can claim 2 courses for £20 and a free glass of wine.
  • Also, we’ve just launched the Sunday Night Saver - get any of our burgers or sandwiches for a tenner.
  • When you pop in during the evening, you need to indulge in our dedicated chip menu - the chilli cheese chips are the staff favourite.
  • Happy Hour - join us for good times and cheaper drinkies from 5-7pm daily.
  • On the drinks front, we’re more than proud to have England’s oldest cider in the Canteen, find out more about it here.
  • We run SW London’s busiest and best brunch, starting at 9am each day.
  • Come and check out the new brunch menu, we’ve added French Toast, Huveos Rancheros and a Smoked Salmon Bagel amongst other things.
  • Reckon you’re a big eater? Try our Man v Food style challenge - can you smash back the All Day Breakfast Scotch Egg, the Big Ben and the BC Burger and chips in 20 minutes?!
  • Making August Bank Holiday plans? You need to come to our American Road Trip Dinner and our Carnival Dinners.
  • Check out the Colporter pop-up - leave the Canteen with a full tum and some awesome pieces for your home – and Jo Butler Flowers who will be bringing fresh bunches for sale every Thursday.
  • Oh, you should also check out our new bar snack, beef jerky from Billy Franks. The cheeseburger flavour is awesome as is the BBQ and the Holy Fuck Sauce (from The Rib Man) flavour

Good times!

Road Trip Dinner at Ben's Canteen

August Bank Holiday in Battersea, Clapham & Wandsworth

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Staying in London for the August Bank Holiday and looking for fun in the shape of food and booze? As the place on the hill we’re delivering both of those things in abundance to the good people of Battersea, Clapham and Wandsworth (people from elsewhere are also very welcome!!).

Friday: American Road Trip Dinner – featuring big fat steak sandwiches, animal style fries and super tasty pies for pudding, oh and bone marrow for starters. We sold out our Independence Day Dinner (see pics here) and it was an awesome party night, this event is gonna rock too. Click here to book. Fancy dress optional but very cool if you do. Don’t forget we’ll also be serving brunch from 9am to 4pm.

Saturday: Brunch from 9am to 4pm. Happy Hour 5-7pm. Dinner, including epic burgers and scotch eggs, from 6pm.

Sunday and Monday: to celebrate Notting Hill Carnival we’re running an entirely Caribbean dinner menu – click here to check it out – from 6pm each night. We’re also be providing hangover salvation in the form of Bloody Mary’s and big breakfasts with brunch from 9am to 4pm each day.

Please note, if you want to come to the Road Trip Dinner you need to book in advance and online, click here for the 7pm sitting or here for the 9pm sitting.

Ben's Canteen Road Trip Dinner

Canteen Weekender

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It’s hawt and our doors are open – come chill on the hill for good times.

Below is a little list of what’s going down over the weekend and coming up…

Remember we’re open for brunch and dinner from 9am till late all weekend.

  • Dinner on Saturday and Sunday starts at 6pm and if you book before 7pm you can claim 2 courses for £20 and a free glass of wine.
  • Also, we’ve just launched the Sunday Night Saver - get any of our burgers or sandwiches for a tenner.
  • When you pop in during the evening, you need to indulge in our dedicated chip menu - the chilli cheese chips are the staff favourite.
  • Happy Hour - join us for good times and cheaper drinkies from 5-7pm daily.
  • On the drinks front, we’re more than proud to have England’s oldest cider in the Canteen, find out more about it here.
  • We run SW London’s busiest and best brunch, starting at 9am each day.
  • Come and check out the new brunch menu, we’ve added French Toast, Huveos Rancheros and a Smoked Salmon Bagel amongst other things.
  • Reckon you’re a big eater? Try our Man v Food style challenge - can you smash back the All Day Breakfast Scotch Egg, the Big Ben and the BC Burger and chips in 20 minutes?!
  • Making August Bank Holiday plans? You need to come to our American Road Trip Dinner and our Carnival Dinners.
  • Check out the Colporter pop-up - leave the Canteen with a full tum and some awesome pieces for your home – and Jo Butler Flowers who will be bringing fresh bunches for sale every Thursday.
  • Oh, you should also check out our new bar snack, beef jerky from Billy Franks. The cheeseburger flavour is awesome as is the BBQ and the Holy Fuck Sauce (from The Rib Man) flavour

Good times!

Road Trip Dinner at Ben's Canteen

Carnival at the Canteen

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For some the August Bank Holiday means one thing and that’s Carnival. Obviously we can’t move the Canteen to Notting Hill but we’re going to enter into the Carnival spirit with a special Caribbean menu on the Sunday and Monday night (please note this will be instead of our normal dinner menu).

Carnival

Come and hang out with us from 6pm each night and tuck into our Caribbean offering.

Starters

Coco Locos

Jalapeño peppers stuffed with two cheeses, coated in panko breadcrumbs deep-fried served with our homemade aioli.

Roadside Jerk Wings

Chicken wings marinated in a ‘Jamaican style’ hot & spicy sauce served with a citrus aioli.

Beef Patties

Traditional beef patties served with a hot spicy dip.

Pumpkin & Aubergine Fritters

Aubergine & pumpkin with an avocado and citrus mayo.

Mains

Mojo Beef Roti

Marinated Strips of Sirloin steak in our homemade Mojo sauce, fried aubergine, roasted sweet peppers all wrapped up in a roti.

Fresh Chilli Mussels

Simmered mussels with white wine, garlic, and chilli served with Jalapeño flatbread.

Doubles

A traditional Trinidad street style food, deep-fried bread stuffed with spicy channa (chickpea) curry and served with a cucumber salsa and mango chutney.

Red Stripe Chicken

Chicken breasts marinated in Jamaican beer, ‘Red Stripe’ on a bed of sweet potato puree.

Barbados Burger

BC burger with a char-grilled pineapple ring, tomato and red onion salsa and Tabasco aioli, served with sweet potato chips.

Sides

Trinidad Mac & Cheese

Fried Plantain

Steamed Callaloo

Rice & Peas

Desserts

Caribbean Rum Cake

Served with whipped cream and mango.

Banana Flambé

Banana, rum and coconut ice-cream

Jamaican Key Lime Pie

We think this is gonna be a whole lot of fun and we’d love for you to join us. If you’d like to book a table then give us a call on 020 7228 3260. Talking of fun, don’t forget that on the Friday of the August Bank Holiday it’s our American Road Trip dinner - you should definitely come to that too.

Canteen Weekender

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This week we had our first birthday and we’re super grateful to everybody who came down and celebrated with us. The year has flown by, thanks for coming along on the journey with us (and for enduring a few bumps along the way) and we hope you’ll keep hanging out with us – we’ve got loads of things planned. On that note, you need to come to our American Road Trip inspired dinner as part of the August Bank Holiday, details here.

Below is a little list of what’s going down over the weekend and coming up…

Remember we’re open for brunch and dinner from 9am till late all weekend.

  • Dinner on Saturday and Sunday starts at 6pm and if you book before 7pm you can claim 2 courses for £20 and a free glass of wine.
  • Also, we’ve just launched the Sunday Night Saver - get any of our burgers or sandwiches for a tenner.
  • When you pop in during the evening, you need to indulge in our dedicated chip menu - the chilli cheese chips are the staff favourite.
  • Happy Hour - join us for good times and cheaper drinkies from 5-7pm daily.
  • On the drinks front, we’re more than proud to have England’s oldest cider in the Canteen, find out more about it here.
  • We run SW London’s busiest and best brunch, starting at 9am each day.
  • Come and check out the new brunch menu, we’ve added French Toast, Huveos Rancheros and a Smoked Salmon Bagel amongst other things.
  • Reckon you’re a big eater? Try our Man v Food style challenge - can you smash back the All Day Breakfast Scotch Egg, the Big Ben and the BC Burger and chips in 20 minutes?!
  • Check out the Colporter pop-up - leave the Canteen with a full tum and some awesome pieces for your home – and Jo Butler Flowers who will be bringing fresh bunches for sale every Thursday.
  • Oh, you should also check out our new bar snack, beef jerky from Billy Franks. The cheeseburger flavour is awesome as is the BBQ and the Holy Fuck Sauce (from The Rib Man) flavour

Good times!

Road Trip Dinner at Ben's Canteen

 

The 2012 Weekend

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Here at the Canteen we’re getting rather excited about the bank holiday weekend. We’re doing brunch, roasts, drinks and dinner as we aim to help you party, meet with friends, entertain/escape the family and generally enjoy the end of the festive period.

2012

During the day on New Year’s Eve we’ll be getting you warmed up and raring to go for the evening’s celebrations with brunch from 9am until 4pm. Then we’ll be celebrating New Year’s Eve with a very special dinner for those who have booked in for it, for those just dropping in to line their stomachs before going out on a biggie we’ll be doing a slightly reduced dinner menu… the bar of course will be open all day and night.

On New Year’s Day we’re here to help you get 2012 started in style with the busiest and best brunch in South West London (if not beyond), we’re expecting to be serving up plenty of Bloody Mary’s and Bubbles as well as some kickstart coffee. Then from 2pm it’s the 2nd weekend of our Sunday Roasts, like our brunch we want them to be amazing and the first weekend we rolled them out we smashed it so we’re expecting big things again (we’re all very serious about our Sunday Roasts at the Canteen).

And then it’s Monday and it’s a Bank Holiday… which means we’re doing another full blown brunch service, good times!

Eat, Drink and Be Very Merry!

Small Plates, Big Fun

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Ok so most of you are back to work tomorrow and that’s pretty depressing. However, Ben’s Canteen is at hand to inject a last bit of fun into your Bank Holiday weekend.

Tonight, we’re serving up a range of small plates, we’re calling it Tapas but don’t think we’re turning into a Spanish restaurant, the idea is to share a bunch of dishes you might not normally have and hopefully have a bit more fun.

Stacey will be cooking the small plates tonight from the bar, so you can see your food being cooked in front of you and hear it sizzling away – this is going to turn into a regular thing in about a week or so as Stacey joins us on a full-time basis (something we’re very excited about).

Last orders for drinks is 10.30pm, so pop in for a drink and have a small plate or two and put off work for just a little longer.

Bank Holiday Special from 6pm

Tapas/Small Sharing Plates/Snacking/Grazing

Patas Bravas with Chipotle Sauce: £3

Crayfish and Mango Quesadillas: £5.50

Grilled Haloumi and Field Mushroom with a Balsamic Reduction: £3.50

Chilli and Lime Prawns: £4.95

Grilled Chorizo and Manchego Cheese: £4.95

Tortilla – Spanish Omelette: £3

Mrs King’s Pork Pie: £5

Scotch Egg: £2.50

Charcuterie Board: £5.95

Cheese Board: £7.25

Chilli Puffs/Wasabi Peas: £2

Suggested Bank Holiday Drinks

Pimms: £5.50

Beaumont’s Alcoholic Ginger Beer: £4.90

Luscombe Cider: £3.60

Hendrick’s and Fever Tree: £6

Bank Holiday Bubbles – Prosecco, Glass: £7.40 Bottle: £22.95

Alisios (Brazil) Pinot Grigio-Riesling, Glass: £4.95, Bottle: £20.95

De L’Hospitalet (France) Pinot Noir, Glass: £5.95, Bottle: £24.95

 

 

It’s an extra Saturday Night!

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The beauty of the Bank Holiday is that you effectively get an extra Saturday night! Tonight we’re not doing a full dinner service, instead we’re releasing big Sanket from the Kitchen and inviting him upstairs to the bar area. From here he will be cooking up tapas/sharing plates on our contact grills – it’s going to be fun and super tasty. Food will start from 6pm and the bar is open now, with last orders coming at 10.30pm.

Bank Holiday Special from 6pm

Tapas/Small Sharing Plates/Snacking/Grazing

Patatas Bravas with Chipotle Sauce: £3

Crayfish and Mango Quesadillas: £5.50

Grilled Haloumi and Field Mushroom with a Balsamic Reduction: £3.50

Chilli and Lime Prawns: £4.95

Grilled Chorizo and Manchego Cheese: £4.95

Tortilla – Spanish Omelette: £3

Mrs King’s Pork Pie: £5

Scotch Egg: £2.50

Charcuterie Board: £5.95

Cheese Board: £7.25

Chilli Puffs/Wasabi Peas: £2

Suggested Bank Holiday Drinks

Pimms: £5.50

Beaumont’s Alcoholic Ginger Beer: £4.90

Luscombe Cider: £3.60

Hendrick’s and Fever Tree: £6

Bank Holiday Bubbles – Prosecco, Glass: £7.40 Bottle: £22.95

Alisios (Brazil) Pinot Grigio-Riesling, Glass: £4.95, Bottle: £20.95

De L’Hospitalet (France) Pinot Noir, Glass: £5.95, Bottle: £24.95