“A cornerstone is literally a stone at the corner of a building. It’s an important stone, so it also means “the basic part of something,” as in, the cornerstone of the suffragette movement was getting women the right to vote.”
Not my words, the words of vocabulary.com.
The suffragette movement is an interesting angle for this blog post. I think the gist of it was women getting the vote and being able to do whatever mad things they want.
Talking of women, I have a wife. She does what she wants nearly all of the time, but one thing (call me old-fashioned) that I’m not eager on, is her having relations with celebrity chefs. It’s why we can’t go to Tommy Banks’ place and why I went with a man friend to Cornerstone owned by Tom Brown.
(This isn’t true, I’m not insane, but I needed to write a few words before I go on to tell you whether dishes were ‘not very nice / quite nice / nice or very nice’).
I actually used to live in London, it’s something I don’t like to talk about often but it’s just a fact. What I’m getting at is East London is nothing new to me. (Thanks for asking, I lived in Mile End, Bethnal Green and Homerton, indeed, you’re right to be impressed.)
Finding myself with an evening free in London’s trendy London I organised dinner at Cornerstone.
What then?
Sat down, ordered a drink and looked at the menu.
“I didn’t realise it’s just fish,” my friend said.
“Do you like fish?” I replied.
“Yes.”
“That’s good then”
Honestly, we exchange quite scintillating banter.
Smoked cod’s roe and some sourdough to smear it on. Nice, 7/10. It’d be hard to give me a smoked cod roe dish that I’d give less than that, to be fair, I’d be happy to try to live off the stuff.
It’s a ‘sharing’ style menu, so you order a load of stuff, then halve it, then wish you could have eaten it all yourself.
First up was grey mullet tartare, egg yolk seaweed and soy and it was very nice 8/10.
Crab crumpet, rarebit and Worcestershire sauce was excellent and the easiest dish to share between two people as crumpets lend themselves delightfully to knife action 8.5/10. 
NEXT UP
Plaice, roast chicken butter sauce, wild mushrooms, sweetcorn. The chicken sauce was amazing, proper get some more bread to mop it up amazing. 8.5/10.
My dish of the night was the hake, roscoff onion, chilli, anchovy. UMAMI, bit of spice. YES. 9/10.
So, there you go. Feels a bit like I’ve knocked this out in record time because Tom Brown is on Saturday Kitchen and I’m thinking I can push it out to get some serious #numbers, that would be cynical and I’m ashamed of you for even suggesting it.
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