Crodough, a Ross & Rachel pizza and Rolling with the Homies in a cocktail…
The entrance to a very fun night.
That night after work when I stuffed myself while watching Fresh Prince of Bel Air and belting out 90′s tunes… It happened. Recently.
It was the same night that Ross and Rachel returned to my life in the form of an enormous pizza that had Vincent Vega and Happy Gilmore on it. Manasi tried to save me from ruin but it was too late – I was sipping Sweet Valley High then stuffing my face with a deep fried croissant-doughnut that had love hearts, nerds and marshmallow fluff on it. My skinny jeans hated me the next day. Actually, my thighs hated me, the skinny jeans just didn’t fit them.
Enormous pizza
But my god did we have a fun night.
Everyone in this place clearly remembered life as a 90′s teenager, all those years seeing what trouble Zack and AC Slater were up to, watching Joey wrestle with a giant turkey on his head, perfecting our
Comfy seats (image courtesy of ES Clubhouse)
I arrived early and had a few minutes to spare. Perusing the cocktail menu and the names triggering nostalgia over awesome parts of my teenage life (hellooooo Cruel Intentions, Sweet Valley High and Clueless!) and finding myself torn between totally rad pizza names I found myself feeling kind of at home. The music is EXACTLY what I loved (and may still do, ssssshhhh~), Fresh Prince was on the telly and the people around me appeared to be between the ages of 25 and 35. No one younger would remember that era, and that is OK.
Service? Very friendly and fun young hipsters in clothes there’s no way I’d get away in these days. The right amount of attention (not in your face but not forgetting you’re there!). They know their cocktails. The food? Awesome. A thin giant saucy sourdough pizza is exactly what you want with your cocktails and these woodfired gems are as delicious as their names fun; I’d even go as far to say as some of the best I’ve had in London (and I wasn’t expecting this). Cocktails – excellent.
But you all want to know about crodough don’t you?
The Cheerleader Croughdough – image courtesy of Rinkoff’s Bakery
It is sweet. It is heavy. It is hilarious and it is actually quite delicious. Share one with a friend unless you have a husband like mine who will want his own plus the rest of what you don’t eat. I loved the Nerds on top – they are surely one of the best candies of all time. Rinkoff’s have been around for over 100 years in the East End (actually, just down the road from my East End Abode in Stepney) and it’s brilliant to see them bringing interesting baked hybrid goods from 2014 to the masses.
A fun place for a drink and a bite to eat after work with friends. Just don’t drink too many of those Rolling with the Homies or you may find yourself belting out
Earlham Street Clubhouse can be found at 35 Earlham Street, Covent Garden WC2H 9LD. Manasi and I were very lucky to be there for the purposes of review but if we were paying it would have come to around £20 each and we left absolutely stuffed, with 90′s tunes stuck in our heads for days.
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