dine at Duke's for charityJuly 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.