You should have lunch at Duke Carvell’s this July

July would be a really good time to have a week­day lunch at Duke Carvell’s on Swan Lane. Why? Because a) it’s deli­cious and warm­ing and b) they’ll donate 20% of your bill to one of a range of char­it­ies. Bloody good work!

Our Tom B is the May­or of Duke Carvell’s (well, on Foursquare at least), so I asked him for recom­mend­a­tions about what to order.

Duke’s menu is built for shar­ing, and many of the dishes could do mul­tiple duty as tapas, entrees or sides. You could put your­self togeth­er a veget­ari­an com­bin­a­tion from their small plates, includ­ing creamy sage and gor­gonzola gnoc­chi, pre­served veget­ables, green beans with mus­tard and saf­fron flat­bread. Or you could go for a cheesy feast, start­ing with ouzo-flamed hal­loumi, shar­ing an obscenely oozy whole baked Camem­bert, and top­ping it off with a pun­gent selec­tion of French fro­mage. But if you really want to pig out, I heart­ily (or heart-attack­ily) endorse the inno­cent-sound­ing pork board, or as I call it, All Of The Pork: rus­tic pate, thin slices of spicy salami, exquis­ite apple and mus­tard glazed ham, crispy crack­ling, and deep-fried pork belly.

Yuuuuuuuuuuuum.