Eight Hours is a dinner-and-live-music restaurant in Wandsworth’s New Acres development from Bône’s Nas Sharif. It’s one small room of twelve tables, where a short menu of comfort food plays out to live music from six until eleven.
The room is styled like a pocket-sized theatre, with velvet, bulb light, a checker floor, and a curtain that closes behind you. Dressing-room bulbs run down the walls, records are stacked to the ceiling, and a copper bar lit from a single glowing lightbox anchors the space, so dinner and gig feel like one and the same.
As at Bône, beef short rib is the main event, braised eight hours until it gives to a spoon and served with parmesan sauce and pomme puree. Sharing plates on the short card include dynamite prawns, spicy tuna with truffle crisp, and roasted bone marrow with chilli honey and baguette, while garlic brioche toast comes with whipped truffle cheese. Charcoal-grilled chicken with chimichurri and coal-roasted aubergine with a crisp panko garlic crumb and green tahini make up the rest of the mains.
Drinks lean towards the tea room, with pots of pomegranate, rooibos and Moroccan mint alongside matcha poured from a tap and whisked to order, hot or over ice. Diners can also bring their own bottle for £7 per person. Desserts, including chocolate mousse, warm croissant cookies and a monthly sorbet, arrive between sets, and card games and board games are on hand for anyone in no rush to leave.
Dinner runs across two seatings, at 6pm and 8.30pm, and with so few tables, it pays to book ahead.