Where to Get Your Sunday Roast in Beijing
Readers, if you saw my latest article then you will already be familiar with how I truly miss British pubs from back home and their beer gardens.
Well, something else I used to sorely miss was a Sunday roast. However, in recent years my prayers for a good Sunday roast in the capital have been answered, and now there are a number of places offering up this classic meal on a weekly basis.
It’s been quite a few years now since
Arrow Factory started doing their Sunday roast every week, and this was
the first roast dinner I had the joy of encountering in Beijing.
Seriously, words cannot express how happy I was to find out not only
about its existence but that it included the jewel in the crown of all
roast dinners: Yorkshire pudding!
Aside from Yorkshire pudding
(which I could eat a whole plate of on its own), the Arrow Factory roast
consists of Australian roast beef with potatoes, sweet potatoes,
broccoli, horseradish, and gravy. Note to any American readers: this is
not the biscuits and gravy kind of gravy.
The roast costs RMB
128 per person, and you can add any beer, house wine or Prosecco for RMB
30. You can also add any dessert for RMB 30. Bottles of wine or 2L
jugs of beer are 20 percent off. The roast is available every Sunday
from 1-2pm and you need to book in advance by the Saturday evening
before at the latest.
It should come as no surprise that as a traditional Irish bar, Paddy O’Sheas also offer up a Sunday roast.
Depending
on the week, the roast includes either beef, lamb or turkey accompanied
by vegetables, mashed potatoes and, of course, Yorkshire pudding (hell
yes!) and gravy. One drink is also included. Using my many years of
experience as a native Brit, I can confirm that this is the real deal and
as good as any Sunday roast you’ll get back home, especially for their
gravy and Yorkshire puddings alone.
The roast costs RMB 140 and
is available the second to last Sunday of the month from 2pm. It is also
coupled with live traditional Irish music from 3pm. However, subject to
the availability of musicians, the Sunday roast event can be postponed
to a different Sunday so it’s best to follow Paddy’s official WeChat
account (paddyosheasbeijing) to keep up to date.
Nali Patio resident Mosto have two different roasts on offer as part of their Weekend Brunch Menu.
They’re both a little less traditional than Arrow Factory's or Paddy’s,
but still top quality and absolutely delicious. The first option is
their roasted chicken (for two) which consists of a half a rub roasted
chicken, roasted sweet potato, asparagus and chimchurri sauce all for
RMB 248.
The other option is their Sunday roast (for two) - rub
roasted chicken, grilled tenderloin steak, pork sausage, roasted apples
and potatoes, house sauces and salad for RMB 288. As this is part of
their brunch menu, you can also add a two-hour free flow for RMB 188, which
includes the following drinks: Bloody Mary, Mimosa, Bellini, Screw
Driver, Aperol Spritz, Michelada, house wine, sparkling, and soft
drinks. Mosto’s roast is available every Saturday and Sunday from
11am-3pm.
Although it doesn’t come with all the
fixings like Yorkshire pudding and gravy, Peach by Hulu’s roast chicken
offerings are certainly up there for one of the best value. There are
two roast options: an Eat-In Roast Chicken and an Eat-Out Chicken to Go
Package. The Eat-In Roast Chicken includes half a marinated and
dry-aged chicken, fried potatoes, fried sweet potatoes and spicy sauces
for RMB 98.
Alternatively, you can order their Eat-Out Chicken to
Go Package which consists of a whole roast chicken, one soup (choose
between mushroom, pumpkin or carrot and ginger), two sides (choose from
mashed potatoes, roasted potatoes, tomato eggplant ragout, roasted sweet
potatoes, curry cauliflower or garlic broccoli), a seasonal salad and
two Peach iced teas for the low, low cost of RMB 198. I’ve ordered the
Eat-Out Chicken to Go Package before and boy is it a lot of food and definitely
worth it! I was still eating it for days afterwards!
Both Peach’s
roast chickens are available to order any day of the week, the eat-in
option requires 20 minutes cooking time and the eat-out to go chicken requires
one hour for preparation and can be ordered though .
Finally on our list of Beijing’s Sunday
roasts we have another roast that is only available for delivery from
French cafe and patisserie Jiangmaitang. Here you can order either a
whole French-style roast chicken (serves four to six people) for RMB
228, or half a French-style roast chicken (serves two to three people)
for RMB 128. Side dishes of potatoes, zucchini and carrot can be added
for RMB 50 for the whole roast chicken, and RMB 30 for the half roast
chicken.
Jiangmaitang’s Sunday roast needs to be ordered two
days in advance. All you have to do is scan the QR code in the poster
below, add their WeChat, then place your order.
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