Trifle is a signature dish of United Kingdom; we have verified places to eat it in London. Layered glass bowl of sherry-soaked sponge, raspberry jam, vanilla custard, and whipped cream, topped with flaked almonds and glace cherries. Start with where to eat Trifle in London.
Trifle · London
Layered glass bowl of sherry-soaked sponge, raspberry jam, vanilla custard, and whipped cream, topped with flaked almonds and glace cherries. The British Christmas-table classic.
Trifle dates to the 16th century in England as a simple cream-and-rosewater dessert; the layered modern form with sherry-soaked sponge and custard emerged in the 18th century in Hannah Glasse's 1747 The Art of Cookery. By Victorian London, trifle was the show-off centrepiece of any Christmas or formal dinner, served in a cut-glass footed bowl. The dish remains a Christmas Day or Boxing Day institution in British households; London restaurants from The Wolseley to Quality Chop House feature seasonal trifle (rhubarb in spring, raspberry in summer, sloe-gin and blackberry in autumn).
Where to eat in London:
- The Wolseley
- Rules
- St John
- Quality Chop House
- Quo Vadis
- Sketch
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