The Clink Charity unveils new winter menu
Meals are prepared at The Clink HMP Brixton and delivered to people’s homes on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The prisoners who are working towards their City & Guilds NVQs in Food & Beverage Service, Professional Cookery and Food Hygiene qualifications cook the meals.
The Clink&Collect service was launched on 16 July 2020, where customers could select starters, mains, sides and desserts plus a range of soft drinks and retail lines including Clink aprons, tea towels and cookbooks. The minimum order is £35, which includes personal delivery in a refrigerated van from The Clink team.
The new Clink Charity menu includes:
- Starters: spiced winter vegetable soup (VG); fougasse with rosemary & garlic butter (V- for two to share) and pork terraine with crostini.
- Main-courses: potato, leek & Cornish Yarg pie with roast root vegetables (V), barbeque pork ribs with spicy rice & coleslaw; slow cooked beef brisket with colcannon potatoes and Thai sea bream en papillote.
- Sides: creamed potato (V) and winter greens, garlic & herb butter (V).
- Desserts: spiced Autumn fruit crumble with crème anglaise (V + VG- two portions); orange & stem ginger steamed pudding with crème anglaise and chocolate & almond torte with crème fraiche (V + GF).
The Clink Restaurant at HMP Brixton is consistently placed in the Top 10 restaurants in London on TripAdvisor, and in 2017 all of the restaurants held the Number 1 spot for six months.
The Clink Charity aims to reduce reoffending rates by training prisoners to become chefs so they are more likely to find employment when they leave prison.