Leños & Carbon

Best Restaurants in Elephant and Castle | Eater London

"Out of all Elephant’s restaurants, Leños y Carbon is perhaps the best introduction to the carnivorous side of Colombian cuisine. A mixed grill here comes with chicken, beef and pork steaks, huge Colombian sausages and a rack of fatty, rich and barely-sticking-to-the-bone pork ribs, while the churrasco al carbón is half a cow draped over an inadequately large griddle, a thick slab of T-bone steak blackened, crispy on the outside and still rosy within. It’s not just meat here: patacones con todo from the specials is a riot — green plantains mashed and fried into a crispy base, divided into a Trivial Pursuit pie of chicharron, shredded beef, shredded chicken, guacamole, farmer’s cheese, mayonnaise and pineapple sauce." - Jonathan Nunn