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Sibling to the Borough original; international vegan small plates.

survey result

Summary

£61
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* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Light… surprising… confounding vegan food” wins little but praise for the original branch of this spin-off brand from the long-established Mildreds group: a large and “lovely space by Borough Market” that’s won renown for its “innovative and delicious plant-based cuisine, served in a lively atmosphere and feeling like decent value for money too”. The principal drawback is service that’s “not always on the ball” (“expect to wait a long, long time at busy periods”). In June 2023, they opened in Woods Wharf too – “a welcome addition to the Mallow family, where the regular menu is reliably great and the brunch is fun too”. Top Tip – the cooking is “at its best when not trying to mimic meat and fish, when it can veer off course. Small plates are the best of it and therefore it’s best to approach a meal mezze style”.

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Have you eaten at Mallow?

What the Newspaper Critics are saying

The Guardian

Grace Dent’s review this week took her to where Mallow, the vegan Borough restaurant from the team behind Mildreds, has opened a sibling.

The new branch is “a bright, light, glass-fronted, chic, youthful modern brasserie” with a “varied, plant-based, all-day, thoughtfully written list that makes my heart go boom”.

“It ransacks the cuisines of the world, taking flavours, dishes and cooking styles from every corner, and makes them all vegan without even mentioning the dreaded V word.” (“Notably, it also offers a garlic- and onion-free menu.”)

Grace “preferred the small plates to the big ones, because they’re where much of the ingenuity lies”, and the “main courses are what you could call hearty”.

Grace Dent - 2023-07-24
Opening hours
Monday8 am‑11 pm
Tuesday8 am‑11 pm
Wednesday8 am‑11 pm
Thursday8 am‑11 pm
Friday8 am‑11 pm
Saturday9 am‑11 pm
SundayCLOSED

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