insideKENT Magazine Issue 42 - September 2015 | Page 56

FOOD+DRINK
Kent’s Top Lunch Spots cont.
Hythe Brasserie

Pork & Co

www.hythebrasserie.com // Hythe

www.porkandco.co.uk // Canterbury

Hythe Brasserie offers classical
cuisine with a contemporary
twist. Simple, warm décor
creates an intimate ambiance
and is complemented by firstclass service without fuss to
create a great dining
experience. Light and tasty
lunches are prepared using
seasonal ingredients for
optimum freshness. The main
menu is complemented by
specials, which change daily.
And what a menu! Dishes
include garlic and herb-crusted
New Zealand mussels; freshly
battered cod, chips, and minty peas; hot chicken bap with mango and
chilli salsa; and green bean and rocket pesto linguine.

Described as “the finest
pork you ever did have”
Pork and Co in Sun
Street, Canterbury, has
a lot to offer. The
sensational pork comes
from pigs that are all
free range, and all rolls
and breads are
homemade. Many of
the excellent
ingredients come from
Pork and Co’s very own
smallholding too. The
menu includes 14-hour,
slow-roasted pulled
pork rolls, homemade
brioche buns, slaws,
sauces, exquisite
crackling, sausage rolls,
Scotch eggs (made
with their own freerange eggs), macaroni cheese, and salt beef in a homemade seeded bagel.
Pork and Co is exactly right for the pulled pork revolution the country is
currently experiencing.

Thackeray’s
www.thackerays-restaurant.co.uk // Tunbridge Wells
Along the upper reaches of the
London Road, facing the
common, stand a number of
villas where spa visitors would
have stayed in the 18th
century. Amongst the oldest
of these is one that is weatherboarded, tile-hung and built in
a traditional Kentish style; this
was William Makepeace
Thackeray’s home. This is
Thackeray’s restaurant. The
lunch menu here is refined and
elegant, delicious and
delightful. It includes layers of smoked salmon with lightly curried butter,
coriander, anchovy, apple and horseradish; pecorino and bacon croque
monsieur with tomato and rosemary fondue and fine lettuce; and chargrilled
rump of Kentish lamp with Moroccan-style cous cous, apricots, mint,
tomato, red onion, and ‘Ras al Hanout’ spice, as well as many other intriguing
and mouthwatering dishes.

Café Nucleus
www.nucleusarts.com // Chatham, Rochester & Maidstone
An oasis of calm in the heart of
Chatham, the award-winning
Nucleus Arts Centre is