The Black Badger

The Roast Beef Stuffed Yorkie is the dish that says the most about The Black Badger's kitchen. A Yorkshire pudding bowl holds the rib roast, the mashed potatoes, and the gravy; sauteed broccolini sits alongside; the whole plate reads like a Sunday roast that has been rebuilt for a weeknight. A second version of the same format, this one filled with chicken stew, gives the same idea a creamier fallback. Few British pubs treat the pudding bowl as a working main rather than a side dish.

The rest of the British-pub backbone holds the same line. Bangers & Mash, Shepherd's Pie, the Steak & Mushroom Pot Pie, and Pub-Style Fish & Chips run the comfort-food spine, with the fish and chips landing as crispy beer-battered cod over house-cut chips with tartar sauce and coleslaw. The burgers carry their own house sauce: the Jack Daniels' Burger stacks brie, strip bacon, caramelized onions, and Jack Daniels barbecue sauce on a potato-scallion bun, and the Jack Daniels BBQ Ribs use the same sauce on a different cut. The board widens past the British spine — Badger Curry, butter chicken, lamb burger, tacos, Beef Dip, Meatloaf Royale, a Four Cheese Spinach Dip, a Gourmet Grilled Cheese — without losing the pub-comfort centre of gravity. A vegetarian table can still order their way through the menu without negotiating it, and the curry and grilled-cheese threads are why.