Dish · 10 kitchens in 3 cities
Lamb chops
Lamb chops grilled, often over charcoal — from London's Punjabi grills to Rome's scottadito.
Nobody paid to be here. Each kitchen is described from its own menu where it publishes one, unranked, so each note says how that kitchen makes it.
In London
Lamb chops (pirzola)
Mangal 1 · Dalston · ~£25 pp
Pirzola, lamb chops grilled over charcoal on the mangal. Two each, to begin.
This version: The Arcola Street grill-house chops, with Adana from the same fire.
Pick it if: You're in Dalston and want a charcoal grill. No website, so the card is unchecked; tables are walk-in.
Lamb Chops
Fez Mangal · Notting Hill · ~£28 pp
Four lamb chops from the rack, over charcoal. To pass round with the Adana.
Lamb Chops
Tayyabs · Whitechapel · ~£30 pp
Lamb chops marinated in spice and grilled, brought sizzling. We'd open the table with these.
This version: Sizzling chops at a Whitechapel family house since 1972.
Pick it if: You're in east London and want a loud, fast Punjabi dinner, with your own bottle.
Clove-smoked lamb chops
Babur · Forest Hill · ~£42 pp
Lamb chops smoked with clove and grilled under a spice crust. One each, or two between two.
Barnsley Lamb Chop
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese · Fleet Street · ~£38 pp
A Barnsley chop, the double lamb chop, off the grill with tomato and watercress, a devilled kidney on top if you like. Our pick from the grill.
Half/Full Rack Tandoori Lamb Chops, Tandoori Onions
Brigadiers · City · ~£55 pp
Lamb chops marinated and charred in the tandoor, the clay oven, with tandoori onions. A rack to share.
Suffolk Barnsley chop
Quality Chop House · Clerkenwell · ~£70 pp
A Barnsley chop, the double lamb chop cut across the saddle, from Suffolk, off the grill with béarnaise or peppercorn sauce. One each, ordered as you sit down.
Lamb chops, anchovy butter
Morito · Exmouth Market · ~£30 pp
Lamb chops finished with anchovy butter. The main plate, to share, and what we'd cross town for.
This version: Moro's little sister does lamb as a tapa, with salt cod croquetas.
Pick it if: You want lamb as one of several tapas plates, to share.
In Athens
Lamb chops
To Steki tou Ilia · Thiseio · ~€32 pp
Milk-fed lamb chops over charcoal with salt and oregano, lemon and hand-cut fries. Four decades of doing one thing, and the plate we came for.
In Rome
Abbacchio alla scottadito
Armando al Pantheon · Pantheon · ~€45 pp
Abbacchio, Roman milk lamb, grilled a scottadito, finger-burning hot, with only salt and black pepper. The Roman main to order here.