Sticky Toffee Pudding appears as a signature dish in 1 United Kingdom cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Sticky Toffee Pudding · London
Britain's quintessential dessert: a dense date-and-treacle sponge cake, soaked in a butterscotch toffee sauce, served warm in a pool of more sauce with vanilla ice cream or a pour of double cream.
Sticky toffee pudding has disputed Northern English origins, with Sharrow Bay Country House Hotel in Cumbria claiming the modern recipe (chef Francis Coulson, 1970s) and several Lake District establishments contesting. The dish became a London restaurant fixture through the 1980s and 1990s; today it appears on virtually every British gastropub menu. The defining elements are the chopped dates, the treacle or molasses for depth, the toffee sauce from butter and brown sugar, and the warm-serve-with-cream finish. The Wolseley and St. John run benchmark versions.
Where to eat in London:
- The Eagle
- The Camberwell Arms
- Andrew Edmunds
- The Ritz