I found some ridiculous reviews of Biegel Bake and its neighbour on various websites with reviewers writing various ludicrous inaccuracies such as that they were the ONLY places in London that one could buy salt beef and that salt beef and bagels were uniquely British. Only in as much as the fact that Corned Beef (US/international) is very different to that of the British version. I had to satiate my new hunger for good salt beef and over inflated prices of the Brass Rail Salt Beef Bar at Selfridges...
foodbymark said
Amongst the best salt beef in London... at a price
We made a Saturday lunchtime visit to Selfridges for a spot of (luxury) grocery shopping. I'd been to Selfridges many times as my dad used to take me there when I would go for lunch with him when I was kid and he worked in the area and I have since continued to visit these places for over a decade and I've seen the "carvery" change it's location once. It did not turn out to be as busy as we had expected and although an orderly queue had formed when we arrived it was nothing in comparison to the ridiculous queue for Yo Sushi neighbouring it. We were at the Salt Beef counter within 10 minutes and ready to make our orders.
The main menu consists of Salt Beef and Beef Tongue in various bread choices such as traditional rye, bagels, foccaccia buns etc. and my girlfriend and I both chose the 1 whole Salt Beef sandwich on rye with mustard and a pickle. £6.95 each plus 50 pence for the pickle. Ouch. A real punch in the stomach and kick in the... But, the salt beef was tremendously good, juicy and succulent and delicious in two slices of fresh, soft and fragrant rye bread accompanied by a monster of a gherkin.
Brick Lane and Brass Rail, although both as brightly lit as each other, that is where the similarity ends. And by comparison they are really chalk and cheese. As far as this review goes, Selfridges beats Brick Lane hands down on taste but you can't beat the value of a bagel filled with salt beef from Brick Lane. And that's where I'm going to cycle to right now.
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