Image by Jenny Hardy

With the recent return of the Chatsworth Road market on their doorstep, Michael Quinn, Adam Bernstein and Dominic Rose, friends since their school days, decided to put into  practice their love for both food and finery with their stall, What The Dickens!.

Establishing themselves with the old-time British breakfasts of devilled kidneys and kedgeree, What The Dickens! seeks to resurrect and revive time-honoured recipes.

In keeping with the approach to historic recipes What the Dickens! also aim to prepare as much of their own food as possible. Bacon is salted and hung on the premises while the back garden holds bees and a densely packed crop of fruit and vegetables. The laying hens sadly met their maker in the autumn one night after a fox entered the coop. 2013 will see the completion of the What the Dickens? smokehouse, which will be used for bacon as well as fish and home made cheese.

We also anticipate the launch of a small curing and charcuterie wing this year, with our bacon, pancetta, Jamon, bresaola, Fuseau Lorrain and more.

Look out for news from the What the Dickens! pantry.

Currently we can be found on the Chatsworth Road Market in Hackney (Sundays 11am – 4pm), at KERB Kings Cross (usually on Fridays) and at other weekly, monthly and one-off markets and events.

In keeping with the modern age, we can be contacted at whatthedickensfood@gmail.com.