We'd add
Our runner-upEccles Cake and Lancashire Cheese
An Eccles cake, currant-filled pastry, baked in the house, with Lancashire cheese. To share at the end.
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Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstRoast Bone Marrow and Parsley Salad
Roast marrow bones with parsley salad and toast, the marrow scooped onto the bread. The opener we'd never skip.
St John
British · nose-to-tail · Clerkenwell
26 St John Street, London EC1M 4AY
- Something adventurous
The St John restaurant by Smithfield, with its own bakery and a British card that changes daily around a few fixtures. The marrow bones are one.
The proof, in the house's own words
Why the roast bone marrow
Technique
Roasted just until the marrow gives, never melted.
“loose and giving, but not melted away”
Local choice
The one plate that has never left the menu.
“This is the one dish that does not change on the menu at St. John,”
Same plate, other kitchens
Roast bone marrow: which one?
St John and one other kitchen in London all lead with it. What sets each apart, and who it suits:
St John
This kitchenClerkenwell · Menu checked Sep 2026
Roast bone marrow and parsley salad on the Smithfield card, with Eccles cake and Lancashire cheese, or madeleines baked to order.
Pick it if you want the full St John dinner, with wine, booked ahead.
Spitalfields · Menu checked Oct 2026
The same dish in the Spitalfields outpost's counter room — offal-forward, no garnish theatre.
Pick it if you want the marrow without the occasion, walk-in, for a Spitalfields lunch.
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