Why did nobody think of this before? A happy union between the ability to do your butcher shopping, have coffee and patisserie or breakfast, or both, enjoy a high quality meal at lunch or dinner, with wine, of course - when you stop to think about it the whole thing is all so blindingly obvious. Little wonder that Butcher and Grill in Wimbledon has a sibling not far away in SW11.

Presumably, if there are two suppliers who are really missed from the High Street in these times are the traditional baker, and the butcher, who knew by the look on your face what you were going to order as you came through the door.

Brunch is on from 8.30am till 3.30pm on Saturday and Sunday and even though this is a butcher's you can get smoked salmon with your scrambled eggs, and whole lot of other things besides, crowned by the renowned Full English. A good range of beverages includes coffees and teas of all sorts, Cox and Bramley apple juice and many more.

The lunch and dinner menu fields around ten starters, with English pea soup, seared scallops, foie gras ballotine, devilled kidneys on toast, or smoked duck breast served on a shallot, green bean and sun blushed tomato salad. Cured meats, ham, salami, Scottish smoked salmon and dill cured gravadlax, pasta and risotto are there for your pleasure, and when the menu starts talking about handmade Cumberland; pork, honey and mustard; Toulouse, and merguez sausages you know somebody is firmly on message.

Grills - well what can we say? Perhaps calf?s liver and bacon, veal t-bone, pork chop, before you even begin to consider the more conventional. The whole set-up is an absolute delight. Some of their vegetarian dishes can be really attractive, but when the chips are down it really comes to presentation, which happily is improving all the time. And the pea and saffron risotto can make a terrific meal.

Apart from the chips, in the view of many an essential adjunct to a good steak, there is a range of ?stuff on the side?, around six in number, that includes tomato, red onion and chilli salsa, green peppercorn sauce, salsa Verde, or Roquefort butter.

Desserts hover round the exotic, and expect to find strawberry and lavender pavlova, Valrhona chocolate pot with drunken cherries, and a selection of Jude?s organic ice creams and sorbets.

A wine list of around 70 should meet the needs of any reasonable person. But again one should return to the sense of vision in this sensible, down to earth operation which supplies what people want, not what the supplier thinks they ought to have. How many times must one say this before it percolates through?

Their Website will tell you much of what there is no room for here. Subject to a minimum drinks spend of £10 per couple they offer 50% off all steaks every Monday, all night, except Bank Holiday Mondays, and a Dine Early Discount of 25% pre 7 pm from Tuesday to Saturday evenings.