Hache - Fulham Road

We are aficionados of eating out on the Fulham Road as we so often need to eat before or after a Chelsea match. I reckon we have eaten at most of the restaurants between Stamford Bridge and South Kensington station, including those on Hollywood Road.

One of our new regular haunts is Hache. There is something about coming out of a football match that means we are invariably looking for something straightforward such as steak or a burger. If we could rely on getting into Sophie’s Steakhouse we would go there a lot of the time, but they don’t take bookings and sometimes the queue is huge. Hache definitely satisfies the burger criteria.

The time I was unusually with R for the football, rather than my brother or father. This opened up the options as he doesn’t eat out round there as often as us. Hache got the vote, particularly as it is pretty cheap and therefore we didn’t feel too guilty about eating out yet again in January.

I had a cheeseburger and R had one with prosuttio and mozzarella. Both were perfectly medium rare as requested, and the meat has a great flavour, particularly from the charred exterior. I had mine without the bun (I know, some would say sacrilege) but I can’t manage a whole burger with the bun, and I’d rather have some chips. I got salad instead, which from experience I had with the dressing on the side, as I feel they over-dress their salad. The chunky chips were hot and perfectly crispy. We have also had the onion rings in the past, which were great the time they arrived piping hot and not so good when they came lukewarm, but they didn't fit into the January diet!

All in all a good cheap and cheerful meal. Not gourmet, but that wasn’t what we were looking for anyway, and we got out of here for less than £20 a head, including a bottle of wine.