Eat Out London!Bistrotheque
Restaurant, bar and private dining room. Serving dinner seven nights a week and brunch at the weekends.
BISTROTHEQUE
Every Thursday, Executive Chef Blaine Duffy will be cooking up a one-night-only bar menu using the best fish & seafood available to him that day.
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Elegant Warehouse Vibes For Brunch At Bistrotheque, Bethnal ...
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It’s open for dinner only Monday to Friday and then it opens it’s doors for brunch at the weekend as well as a dinner service.
If you come for brunch at the weekend like we did there will be a pianist playing covers which we loved!
When I go out for brunch in London, I usually go for the more breakfasty dishes.
The menu at Bistrotheque is the perfect mix of breakfast dishes and more substantial dishes, including lots of options without eggs.
The two large slices of cheesy bread topped with that big dreamy runny fried egg are what comfort brunch dreams are made of.
Bistrotheque, London E2 | The Independent
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Now that Shoreditch is overrun with lads and lasses on big nights out, two of the original architects of the Shoreditch scene have moved east, to the badlands between Bethnal Green and Hackney, to open Bistrotheque, a fun-palace for the fashionable.
In an area where warehouses and light industrial buildings are still being used for warehousing and light industry, a spacious 1930s building has been carved into a bar (wigged-out Victoriana), restaurant (gallery-white minimalism) and performance space (dubbed the Play Room, and featuring films, bands and games nights).
Among the edited lowlights: seared foie gras which arrived several degrees colder than the toasted brioche it sat on; an over-sweet French onion soup that lacked the depth of flavour you get from good beef stock; a sauce to accompany roast black leg chicken which was reminiscent of Campbell's mushroom soup (and that really is taking the whole retro comfort thing too far).
Never before in my years of restaurant criticism have I had to apologise to someone for encouraging them to order fish and chips.
Related to Moro in Exmouth Market, this groovy hotel's restaurant and bar shows up other new neighbours like The Priory.
Lardo - restaurant review | London Evening Standard
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Lardo is the Italian love-child of former Bistrotheque manager Eliza Flanagan, and offers homecured meats for around £4, small sharing plates for around £6, and pizza for up to £9.
Bright, cleanly astringent olives and fine-sliced, buttery chilli coppa kept us going through our bitter lemon cocktails (gin, lime, mint, sugar, bitters, £4.50, new favourite thing).
Wonderfully fresh, melting flakes of smoked swordfish were nicely offset by salmoriglio, a dressing of lemon, olive oil, garlic and fresh herbs.
Broad beans with Pecorino came with zingy mint and lemon and, I think, dandelion leaves, which added a nice bitter undertone.
A meal for two with cocktails and wine, about £100
London restaurant guide: Bistrotheque, London E2 - Telegraph
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That said – and I hate to be the one to spoil the party in Bistrotheque’s fifth birthday year – on the night D and I visited we did spot a bit of a WAG contingent in wispy babydoll dresses and fierce gladiator sandals as high as North Sea oil rigs.
D started with grilled squid (verdict: slightly smoky in a good way; mercifully not rubbery), slices of softly yielding new potatoes, black olives, orange and caper berries (£8.50).
I had – and just typing this makes me feel like a heartless monster who never wept at Watership Down as a boy – a salad of confit rabbit leg, sautéed mushrooms and rabbit-liver pâté (£8.50).
The rabbit is good and moist, but everything is overpowered by the mustard dressing.’
Rack of lamb comes with smoked aubergine, roast sweet potatoes and a splash of cumin yogurt (£17.50) This vast glass and steel structure, once a harbourside police station, is now home to a bustling restaurant.
Hoi Polloi: restaurant review | Jay Rayner | Life and style | The ...
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The Sunday evening of London fashion week in the low-lit, new Nordic fantasy that is Hoi Polloi, and the challenge is not to hate the place.
My noble colleague, Marina O'Loughlin over on the Guardian, not long ago defined a whole category of expensive restaurants in London's West End as Mayfair Wankpits.
From the offerings on toast there is a perfect dish for a Sunday supper: sautéed wild mushrooms on sour dough with, in the middle, a runny duck-egg yolk.
There's lots of crisp skin, and invigorating greens and whole cloves of garlic roasted unto mush and a deep, sticky chicken gravy.
In reality you could sit with your back to the window and still feel you'd got a good deal from a menu which bigs up its local joys – nutty brown Morecambe Bay shrimps and Goosnargh duck (englishlakes.co.uk) ■ The Clink, a new restaurant located inside Brixton prison and offering training to inmates, has opened for business.
Bistrotheque | Restaurants in Bethnal Green, London
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The hipster count is high, but the welcome and service are friendly, and there’s a level of professionalism here that’s missing from many East End restaurants.
Head to the first floor of this East End trendsetter for the light, white restaurant and big oval bar (the Manchichi, where walk-ins can eat and good cocktails are mixed).
Although the hipster count is high, the welcome and service are friendly, and there’s a level of professionalism here that’s missing from many local restaurants.
Less welcome at brunch are the 90-minute dining slots, and the tables set uncomfortably close to the piano.
Overall, it's a reliable but fun restaurant that hasn’t become complacent.