Oblix

Oblix offers sophisticated, urban dining and world-class cocktails from the 32nd floor of The Shard. Reservations: 020 7268 6700

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Restaurant Review: Oblix's Sunday Roast in the Sky

This autumn, Oblix, the restaurant with a view on the 32nd floor of The Shard, is offering a Sunday roast with the likes of Cornish lamb shank, rotisserie duck and bone in rib of beef on the menu.

The restaurant was packed when we arrived and we were seated in a large, comfy, leather-seated booth with stone columns and a wall of wine as a backdrop.

You can order from the roast or the grill menu, and I watched with find amusement as an 8-year old Chinese boy on the table in front of us tucked into his lobster and spinach, but we had roasts on the brain, so we ordered the bone in rib of beef with red wine gravy and suckling pig with spiced apple, sage and cider sauce.

All roasts come with Yorkshire puddings and a choice of buttered spinach with gruyere or buttered peas with smoked bacon, marjoram and mint, plus creamy horseradish or roasted beef fat potatoes.

So after a short patrol of the perimeter of the restaurant, snapping the views (most of our fellow diners had left by this point as we’d arrived towards the end of the lunch seating), it was back down the dark, lantern-lit, Indiana Jones-esque walkway – which makes a trip to the loo rather fun), and a swift, beautifully engineered descent back down to earth.

Oblix restaurant review 2013 May London | American Cuisine | food ...

Oblix is the first restaurant to open at the Shard, at 72 storeys the tallest building in Europe.

The restaurant is on level 32 of the building and is run by Rainer Becker, who launched the highly successful pan-Asian restaurants Zuma and Roka.

The dining room is large, seating up to 130 guests, and the lounge bar is of a similar size: this serves a buffet at lunch, but in the evening offers the same menu as the restaurant.

The hard floor and reflective surfaces means that noise levels are high, as even on my lunch visit the restaurant was packed out.

Again the dressing was carefully constructed, the yellowtail having reasonable flavour and the toasted seeds bringing a useful extra texture (13/20).

Oblix at The Shard - restaurant review | London Evening Standard

The menu is a large card with some alarming — crab cake starter at £19, bone-in rib eye (in other words, rib of beef) at £54 — and some quite docile — eggplant caviar for £6.50, rosemary chicken for £16 — prices.

The effect of the cooking tried at a lunch and a dinner is of a spirited song with rather too many bum notes — no smoked pork in New England clam chowder (and no accompanying Saltine crackers); too much citron insistence in lobster and scallop ceviche; heavy-handed salting of steak tartare obliterating the taste of beef; gelatinous flesh of sous-vide Dover sole; a spit-out sweet Meyer lemon “jam” with halibut; no skordalia (the reason for ordering chicken) with rosemary chicken; ice-cold fruit in strawberry and rhubarb Pavlova.

Some dishes such as veal chop with gremolata and pork belly with apple chutney and mustard seeds are serviceable, side orders of grilled green asparagus, carrots with orange and ginger, roasted cauliflower and macaroni and cheese better than the usual chorus line.

My advice, although I haven’t yet acted on it, is to book in the much more relaxed Lounge where there is a deli menu during the day, live music in the evenings and brunch at weekends.

The view from this side of the building towards Tower Bridge and points east is the more captivating and — I have to be frank here — the third star above given for a very early gastronomic try-out that can only, and under Rainer Becker surely will, get better — is encouraged by the eerie sight of trains at London Bridge station slithering beneath the ground.

Oblix, London SE1, restaurant review - Telegraph

On the 32nd floor of the mighty Shard, amidst an impressively mixed crowd – business, multinational business, couples, and one chic pensioner having a baked potato with a stunning view – C, my beloved, was explaining to me the sense of superiority he got from being up high.

C had grilled diver-caught scallops with sweetcorn and black pepper (£16.50).

For my main course I had, or at least I ordered, tiger prawn with rosemary and olive oil (£21), and what arrived was something much larger than I'd expect from a tiger prawn – as with the upscaling from a crab to a king crab, what is meant to be an added fanciness is actually a diminution of flavour.

C had a very basic sirloin steak (£22) with a pepper sauce that had that lip-smacking taste (I don't mean that in a good way; something in the saltiness, the reduction, makes you want to smack your lips together) that you only ever find in a commercial kitchen.

C had chocolate peanut bar (£8), which was quite prettily presented as a long, shardesque bar, topped with nuts, rich and intense rather than moussey, with a scoop of pecan ice cream on the side of spoon-down, forehead-slapping deliciousness.

Restaurant: Oblix, London | Life and style | The Guardian

'It has absolutely no sense of place: you could be eating in any expensive tall building, anywhere in the world' 'An amazing view," the pal says, looking out of the vast plate-glass windows over the Gherkin, St Paul's and ribbon-like expressways, "is a bit like a good-looking husband.

Yes, the view from Oblix on the 32nd floor of the Shard is spectacular, the river glittering like pewter and buses looking like Dinky Toys.

Our mains are entirely forgettable: upscale ingredients served with fruity sidekicks: rotisseried duck with mango; halibut with "Meyer lemon jam" – an ingredient I get excited about but that turns out to be lemon curd.

• Oblix Level 32, The Shard, 31 St Thomas Street, London SE1, 020-7268 6700.

Food 6/10 Atmosphere 7/10 (for the view) Value for money 4/10

Oblix | Restaurants in London Bridge, London

Nearly halfway up the Shard, Oblix is the first of a few bars and restaurants to open in Western Europe’s tallest building (the others being Aqua Shard Hutong, and Shard 35).

I was told the restaurant was already fully booked weeks ahead, as were all the reservable seats in the bar.

We therefore arrived early to take advantage of the small no-bookings area in the bar, which serves a simpler but similar menu to the restaurant.

In contrast the Oblix bar has bookable tables and chairs blocking this sought-after periphery, forcing you to invade someone else’s space.

The restaurant side has the better views (including such sights as the London Eye and Houses of Parliament) as well as a tiny bar counter where you can eyeball central London; those from the bar side, of green, hilly south-east London, are also impressive.