B & K Salt Beef Bar restaurant and take away

 B & K in Hatch End, in north west London is the foodie heaven I used to dream about when I lived in Singapore. We went there in November 2025 for lunch with friends.

Starters - or main courses.

Smoked salmon. Add mixed salad.

Our starter choices included chicken soup with noodles and a dumpling. That is a dish found in Poland and several other European countries.

The service was attentive. When we started to share the soup the waitress offered us a second soup bowl without being asked.

Smoked salmon.

Mixed hors d'ouvres.

Latke (grated potato, like hash brown or roste) slightly too well done for me.

End with lokshen pudding (noodle pudding). Or apple strudel.

End with the bill which is sweetened by a foil wrapped chocolate.

The restaurant is Jewish style but not kosher. The place is run by a family of Christians. maybe originally Greeks I believe. We have been going there for years, at least since the year 2000. 

At least two generations have been running the original smaller, busy Edgware branch.The slightly more spacious Hatch End branch is sheltered from passing traffic by the slip road where you can park and pay. 

Like many restaurants, they don't take American Express.

Best and Biggest Lunch At B and K Salt Beef Bar, Restaurant and Take away In London, England

the mixed hors d'oevre I had on a previous visit. Photo by Angela Lansbury. copyright

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Salt beef. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Tripadvisor asks if you ate there with family or friends. Both. Four of us, two couples. We had lunch.

One person, in a wheelchair, had already managed to negotiate the doorway when we arrived.

The toilets are at the back on the ground floor. That's good. I hate going up or down a level.

First choice, set meal or not? I chose the two-course set meal. The food is always too much for us. So a shared starter and a shared dessert is good.

Starter
Start with chicken soup. It comes with a dumpling, or kind of ravioli, pasta around meat. Both, I think, costs a little extra. One soup, two spoons. No problem.

With your main course you might have chips or latkes. Latkes, fried grated potato. don't seem to me to be what they used to be. Not such a huge difference in satisfaction between latkes and chips. I was happy with both.

I made the mistake of going for chicken. Because I like chicken. But you can have chicken anywhere.

I should have had the fish balls. They were wonderful. Moist. Tasty. My friend received four, which she planned to share with her husband. Four ended up just the right amount for four people. Next time, for me, it's fish balls.

I think most men would want the filling salt beef. Piled high.

Afterwards we had takeaways to put in the fridge at home. Three sorts of baked lemon cake on a biscuity base. No, the chocolate looks and sound nice but hides the flavour of cheesecake. I prefer plain.

The lemony lokshen pudding and apple strudel and cheesecake lasted me another two days. Just a tiny piece with coffee. For breakfast, elevenses, lunch, tea, and a late night snack. Lovely.

Filling food. Fab food.

You'll find them on Facebook and TripAdvisor and Deliveroo - but not on Mondays when they are closed.

B & K Salt beef bar and restaurant
353 Uxbridge Road
Hatch End
Pinner
Middlesex
HA5 4JN

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Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Nosher. (That's Yiddish for snacker, one who eats between meals, like a cow which eats all day.) Please share links to your favourite posts.

Who is in the picture in B & K Salt Beef Bar, Hatch End?

You go to B & K for their chicken liver pate, their salt beef, their turkey, or their lokshen pudding (noodle pudding) or apple strudel, or all of the above..

'Who is in that picture?' I asked the owner, who was serving the salt beef at the deli counter.

'My grandfather, who opened the Salt Beef Bar in Selfridges in the 1960s when it was owned by Clore.'

www.bksaltbeefbar.com

Best apple strudel and lokshen pudding in London?

B & K in Edgware or Hatch End.

Apple strudel. Apple filling.

Lokshen pudding. Noodle pudding with sultanas. Hint of lemon. Suggestion of brown sugar on top.  Very filling.

Lokshen pudding is a Jewish style, but also Polish style. I believe the current owners are Greeks and not Jewish, don't have a kosher license, but learned from their former employers, and now make the most wonderful filling food. Turkey. Salt beef. Rye bread. Pickled cucumber.

Eat in or take away.