Typing Room

Typing Room is located in East London’s Town Hall Hotel, built in 1910, and is named after the building’s original typing room in which all communications from the mayoral, council and judicial system were put to ink.

Typing Room

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Typing Room, Town Hall Hotel - London Restaurant Reviews ...

On the former Bethnal Green site of Viajante, a great all-rounder from Jason Atherton protégé Lee Westcott, where the food is fashionable enough to be interesting, without being so mannered as to be irritating - hopefully the beginning of a trend!

At the risk of flogging the theme, the food is very much in keeping with the room and the service.

In the old days, you could weigh up most restaurants by their bread basket.

Well, here they have nothing as retro as a basket, but you do get two sorts of bread - a brioche and a campaillou - and two sorts of butter to go with 'em, artfully smeared on a platter.

From the lunchtime menu, we then enjoyed a couple of delightfully balanced fish dishes - both interesting, but both of the sort you could, at a pinch, serve to Great Aunt Matilda without inducing any sort of shock, even if their charming floral decoration might have induced in her some sense of disorientation.

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The skin was suitably crisp and the brandade not overly salty – an unusual and enjoyable start to the meal (16/20)This was followed by pig’s head and trotter meat fried as a croquette with smoked apple puree.

This is a fine dish, the texture of the cauliflower excellent, the raisins and capers balancing each other but lifting the flavour of the cauliflower (16/20).

A fillet of turbot from a 3kg fish came with shallot, onions cooked in whey, pea shoots, shoots of green asparagus and a sauce flavoured with lemon verbena.

The bird was excellent, carefully cooked, and the carrots and the vinegar note from the pickling juices were an excellent foil for the richness of the meat (16/20).

Fay Maschler reviews Typing Room | London Evening Standard

Nuno Mendes, who was running Viajante at Town Hall Hotel in Bethnal Green, has upped sticks and gone to cook at Andre Balazs’s (pronounced backlash these days it would seem) Chiltern Firehouse hotel in Marylebone.

In the old days before town halls and fire stations were turned into hotels and restaurants these rooms were where communications from the mayor, council and judicial system were recorded.

At Shoreditch’s Clove Club (in another town hall) pine branches make the nest for fried buttermilk chicken.

Scott returns two days later to try the tasting menu.

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Typing Room, London E2 – restaurant review | Marina O'Loughlin ...

So when Chiltern Firehouse launched without a murmur – how odd that seems, now that it has generated as many column inches as a Kardashian – the biggest surprise to industry insiders was Nuno Mendes's defection from his Michelin-starred Viajante.

The new restaurant is under the aegis of Jason Atherton, a chap currently spreading himself as thin as cheap margarine; "executive chef" is one Lee Westcott, most notable for heading up Tom Aikens' restaurant after its ill-fated revamp.

Our "snacks" are choux profiteroles topped with a sultry black olive emulsion and stuffed with a rich courgette and basil mixture that cleverly apes crème pâtissière; and a lettuce leaf brimming with gorgeousness – the pungency of smoked eel, the pop of raw peas, a whip of wasabi and the sharp fragrance of a lemon almost-curd.

And I nearly love baby monkfish, with its curious, pungent accompaniments of fermented endive, glossy broccoli puree, bitter orange and curry spicing.

There are blobs of pale pink puree – sultry, sexy peach.

Typing Room in Bethnal Green: Lee Westcott's restaurant is one of ...

Typing Room in Bethnal Green: Lee Westcott’s restaurant is one of London’s best | Restaurant review The Bermuda Triangle mystery turned out to be the result of a number of false claims and the adverse weather from the Gulf Stream; crop circles a series of hoaxes; and the Loch Ness monster a case of wishful thinking.

Lee Westcott was one of the enfant prodige of the New British cuisine; he worked with some of the world’s most prominent chefs – René Redzepi, Jason Atherton and Gordon Ramsay – and run the kitchen of two-michelin-starred Tom Aikens in Chelsea for two years aged 24.

It’s also the second time a chef stresses (the other one being the Kitchen Table’s James Knappett) the entire duck is cooked exclusively in a pan.

Catching up with the pairings, we have a great zibibbo by Serragghia, from Pantelleria (a favourite of high-profile sommeliers such as Giuseppe Palmieri of Osteria Francescana); a fantastic chenin blanc from Loire by Jean-Pierre Robinot, which boasts remarkable character and a surprisingly long finish; and, for the duck, Marti brings something very special: a glass of Unico 2008 by Vega-Sicilia from Ribera del Duero, a very sophisticated tempranillo – elegant, light, sharp and spicy.

When you book your table, ask to be seated in the front room, as you will witness chef Lee Westcott working on the pass with exemplary passion and focus.

Typing Room and Peg + Patriot restaurant review - London, UK ...

Located in the space formerly occupied by Nuno Mendes' Michelin-starred Viajante, Typing Room has a tough act to follow.

Yet the restaurant, based in Unlisted Collection's Town Hall Hotel in Bethnal Green, has made its own indelible mark since opening in May.

The first solo venture of chef Lee Westcott, Typing Room is a no-fuss journey through refined European cuisine and offers a refreshingly succinct menu that's a solid testament to his flair for thoroughly crowd-pleasing dishes.

Lined with oak-parquet and peppered with ceramics, brushed brass and marble, the space is a smooth contrast to the dark, sexy Peg + Patriot bar across the hall, where Matt Whiley tickles taste buds with unorthodox tipples like the salt beef-flavoured D Groner, mixed with cognac and mustard leaf.