Greys Brewery Yard, Springfield Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 6QR www.chopbloc.com
Steak and grill house Chop Bloc has brought back its brunch menu with a punch. Overseen by Head Chef, Antonio Lopez Rocha, the menu has been developed to showcase the creativity, and diverse nature of brunch.
Steak and eggs is its own section on the menu, and it is definitely what they are best known for. They have the classic selection of cuts – rump, ribeye, sirloin, fillet or T-bone – all served with your preferred style of eggs, house chimichurri sauce and homemade hash browns.
Alternatively, they also have a rump milanesa holstein – tenderised rump steak which is then fried in panko breadcrumbs. The dish is not one for vegetarians that is for sure, as it is essentially a piece of very tender, crisp piece of meat on a plate. This is then topped with a fried egg, anchovies, capers for extra saltines, and a smooth, punchy veal jus.
The brunch brioche is a fantastic take on a breakfast sandwich. Soft, sweet brioche surrounds crispy, salty bacon, sausage, a fried egg with a perfectly runny yolk and crisp homemade hash browns.
Alongside all that food, Chop Bloc has a fantastic selection of breakfast appropriate drinks, from juices to milkshakes and freshly blended smoothies.
On the day we tried them, they had run out of marmalade and substituted it with Tiptree raspberry jam which gave them a nice edge of sourness to complement the sweetness. They also put the leftover cocktail in a little Tiptree jam jar for you served with the drink. Very cute.