{"id":1501,"date":"2010-10-21T17:28:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2010-10-21T17:44:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:44:19","slug":"lunch-at-the-anchor-and-hope-with-a-lovely-languedoc-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/france\/lunch-at-the-anchor-and-hope-with-a-lovely-languedoc-red","title":{"rendered":"Lunch at the Anchor and Hope, with a lovely Languedoc red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0047.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1511\" title=\"IMAG0047\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0047.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0047.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0047-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0047-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0047-400x240.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very enjoyable lunch today at famed gastropub the Anchor and Hope, on The Cut, within a few long strides of Waterloo Station.<\/p>\n<p>It was my first time here, and I came away impressed. It&#8217;s everything a gastropub should be, with a rustic interior, a no reservations policy, and honest, well-prepared, interesting food at sensible prices.<\/p>\n<p>I started with a terrine that was almost perfect (pictured), and followed it up with a robust shank of venison on some celeriac mash. It was perfectly cooked &#8211; tender, melting chunks of meat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0049.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1512\" title=\"IMAG0049\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0049.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0049.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0049-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0049-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMAG0049-400x240.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To drink? A brilliantly delicious, spicy, peppery, savoury Languedoc red &#8211; <strong>Mas des Chimeres Cuvee Marie et Joseph 2008<\/strong>, a vin de pays du Coteaux du Salagon. There&#8217;s fruit here (this is a varietal carignan), but it&#8217;s not an overly fruity wine, and the spicy bite makes it a hugely drinkable food companion. Guilhem Darde makes a range of wines (see the <a href=\"http:\/\/masdeschimeres.com\/page_24.php\" target=\"_blank\">Mas des Chimeres website<\/a>) and on the basis of this bottle, I think I have to check them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very enjoyable lunch today at famed gastropub the Anchor and Hope, on The Cut, within a few long strides of Waterloo Station. It was my first time here, and I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,79,74],"tags":[376,384,383],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-languedoc","category-restaurants","tag-france","tag-languedoc","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}