Trinity Restaurant Review, Clapham, London

Trinity Restaurant
4 The Polygon
Clapham, SW4 0JG
Tel: 020 7622 1199

We celebrated our anniversary here, having booked a table at 7.30pm on a Thursday evening.
The restaurant started filling up around 8pm and once it got going there was a nice ambiance but it was too quiet before. You would not stumble upon Trinity, being on the Polygon just down the road from Clapham Common tube, but it has the potential to be a hidden gem.

Service was a little erratic but very pleasant and informal. The menu is likely to have something for everyone, British/European solid dishes with a touch of fancyness that does not always work but is probably needed to justify the relatively high prices for what is essentially local dining.

I had a Terrine of Pork to start with (£10), littered with too many Pistaccio nuts and a couple of dollops of Prune for good measure. It came with good, thin, crispy toast. The portion size was enormous and even I, with the biggest of appetites, did not want to finish it in case I left no room for what was to follow. My wife had the artichoke soup starter (£7) which was again a huge portion. Both starters were made with the freshest ingredients and tasted good but did not 'wow'.

Main course I had Breast of Duck with Beetroot and Cranberries (£19). Again, huge portion. Duck cooked nicely but cut into strips with a piece of fat on each that actually made cutting bite size amounts somewhat tricky. Overall though I had few complaints. The wife had Pollock which was over-salted and so she only ate half (and she is not a fussy eater). I had a glass of the beaufiful English 2006 Bacchus white wine (£7) before we started eating, which was as good as any white Burgundy I have ever tasted. A number of wines on the list also come in handy 500ml carafes so I went for a Italian Campania red wine to go with the duck, which was delicious and well priced at £16.

With water and service charge the bill came to £104 - at the high end for what was a good meal, but not a great one.