Terroirs

Terroirs natural wine bar and restaurant in Covent Garden and East Dulwich has been serving natural wines with energy and food with respect since 2009.

Terroirs | Central London | Wine Bar | Restaurant

http://www.terroirswinebar.com

Terroirs: Let the good times roll [Review] | London Eater

Before long Candice joined us and while service was a little slow, it did take us a while to order because we couldnt quite choose what we wanted; oh can’t we just have abit of everything?

Opting to start with some tasty duck scratchings (£2.50) – crunchy salty and perhaps a little oilier than it needed to be – I was however more impressed by the other bar snack Cervelle de Canut (£3) , described to us as a sort of garlic cream cheese dip, but it tasted closer to a zingy lemon creme fraiche with spring onion.

Reintroducing myself to the wine bar Ter-wahs’ is branded as a showcase of artisan producers of Britain, France, Italy and Spain, and they’ve set themselves up as a kind of souled out chill fest of a wine bar – complete with bricks for walls, large dial art-deco clocks and surrealistic blue lights emanating from the exposed kitchen which seeks to churns out a menu that features tapasy, bar snacky small dishes, which we Londoners are quickly becoming accustomed to.

Ollie really wanted it and I gave up the Bavette for it but there it is, one of the dishes of the day: The pot roasted quail, Italian artichokes, pancetta & gremolata (£12).

They do lunch specials too and on the day’s menu, it was a tartiflette with salad and a glass of wine for a tenner.

Terroirs - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens

Just off Trafalgar Square, a pleasantly simple Gallic bistro of a type that's all too rare in London; owned by a wine merchant, it also offers a good choice of wines by the carafe and glass; a basement restaurant is scheduled to open in early-2009.

Find a re-emerging central restaurant location (Covent Garden), and locate premises not too far from an already successful basement wine bar (Bedford & Strand).

Too many restaurants in recent years have tended to value décor and 'concept' over food, and it's always good to find somewhere that's got its priorities right.

The place is owned by a wine merchant, and the list is impressive, and good-value.

Let's hope they get realisation more consistent across the board before they open up the fully-fledged basement restaurant, scheduled for the early days of the New Year.

Terroirs, 5 William IV Street, London WC2 | The Independent

So how has a small wine bar, which opened last autumn with almost no publicity, somehow become the hit of the moment?

It really is the kind of place you find yourself wanting to tell other people about: that rarest of rare beasts, an atmospheric little place serving great food and wine at terrifically reasonable prices.

But Terroirs calls itself a wine bar because wine is at the heart of the enterprise.

Around £25 a head for three courses before wine and service Tipping policy: "Service charge is 12.5 per cent, of which 100 per cent goes to the staff; all tips go to the staff" The Harrow at Little Bedwyn Roger Jones has conceived a brilliant 62-page wine list at this excellent restaurant in Wiltshire.

This Michelin-starred restaurant overlooking Lake Windermere has the best wine list in the UK, according to ‘The Good Food Guide’.

Restaurant review: Terroirs in London - Telegraph

But suddenly this summer, fête committees are in such a makeover frenzy that in our village we've even been asked for "ideas", the proffering of which used to be considered the height of bad manners.

With MPs touring constituencies in the biggest march of penitence/desperation to save their jobs since Henry II after that little misunderstanding over Thomas à Beckett, they should willingly play their part in the local fête.

I was thinking about MPs while waiting for the late Sevenoaks train at Charing Cross.

Alas, the wine doesn't gain the attention it deserves because the food is just too good.

Oh, and should you want to buy a discredited and slightly damaged MP who could soon be looking for more legitimate employment in domestic service – clearing your moat, pressing trousers, stocking your duck pond, that sort of thing – you will probably find him towards the end of the fête going cheap on the white elephant stall.

Terroirs - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens

Just off Trafalgar Square, a pleasantly simple Gallic bistro of a type that's all too rare in London; owned by a wine merchant, it also offers a good choice of wines by the carafe and glass; a basement restaurant is scheduled to open in early-2009.

Find a re-emerging central restaurant location (Covent Garden), and locate premises not too far from an already successful basement wine bar (Bedford & Strand).

Too many restaurants in recent years have tended to value décor and 'concept' over food, and it's always good to find somewhere that's got its priorities right.

The place is owned by a wine merchant, and the list is impressive, and good-value.

Let's hope they get realisation more consistent across the board before they open up the fully-fledged basement restaurant, scheduled for the early days of the New Year.

Terroirs, 5 William IV Street, London WC2 | The Independent

So how has a small wine bar, which opened last autumn with almost no publicity, somehow become the hit of the moment?

It really is the kind of place you find yourself wanting to tell other people about: that rarest of rare beasts, an atmospheric little place serving great food and wine at terrifically reasonable prices.

But Terroirs calls itself a wine bar because wine is at the heart of the enterprise.

Around £25 a head for three courses before wine and service Tipping policy: "Service charge is 12.5 per cent, of which 100 per cent goes to the staff; all tips go to the staff" The Harrow at Little Bedwyn Roger Jones has conceived a brilliant 62-page wine list at this excellent restaurant in Wiltshire.

This Michelin-starred restaurant overlooking Lake Windermere has the best wine list in the UK, according to ‘The Good Food Guide’.

Restaurant review: Terroirs in London - Telegraph

But suddenly this summer, fête committees are in such a makeover frenzy that in our village we've even been asked for "ideas", the proffering of which used to be considered the height of bad manners.

With MPs touring constituencies in the biggest march of penitence/desperation to save their jobs since Henry II after that little misunderstanding over Thomas à Beckett, they should willingly play their part in the local fête.

I was thinking about MPs while waiting for the late Sevenoaks train at Charing Cross.

Alas, the wine doesn't gain the attention it deserves because the food is just too good.

Oh, and should you want to buy a discredited and slightly damaged MP who could soon be looking for more legitimate employment in domestic service – clearing your moat, pressing trousers, stocking your duck pond, that sort of thing – you will probably find him towards the end of the fête going cheap on the white elephant stall.

Restaurant review: Terroirs, London WC2 | Life and style | The ...

A couple of hours after becoming a father for the first time, a friend returned to the maternity ward from the trip home to collect the fresh nightie and make the phone calls to find his wife crying her eyes out.

"It's these other mothers," she sobbed, gazing at her newborn through the tears while waving a floppy arm towards the other beds.

You may be deliriously happy with your local bistro, but that's only because you don't have a Terroirs of your own.

With every mouthful of crunchy, unspeakably delicious roasted fat, the damage to the coronary arteries must be enough to provoke the nearby Ministry of Health into launching a War on Terroirs.

As is Terroirs which, despite its English cook and English wine merchant ownership, has the simplicity, honesty and gift for producing whacking great flavours at affordable prices of the truly authentic, first-class French bistro.

Jay Rayner reviews French restaurant Terroirs in London | Life and ...

The French did it brilliantly, via the notion of terroir, the idea that it was the very earth which defined the uniqueness of their great produce that sustained the French nation.

As the food writer and historian John Whiting explained in a paper to the Oxford Symposium on Food a few years ago, terroir was merely a beezer marketing spin, created by winemakers reacting to the devastation caused to the vines by phylloxera in the 1860s.

On to this was grafted a whole bunch of dishes - coq au vin, cassoulet, and so on - which came to be intrinsically linked with notions of the horny-handed peasantry tilling the ancient land.

So I am suspicious of terroir, but I do very much like a restaurant off London's Strand called Terroirs.

The majority of the menu is small dishes, few costing over £8, many a lot less than that, served with an eclectic selection of wines, many by the glass.

Terroirs | Restaurants in Covent Garden, London

If you want to find out what the whole natural wine thing is all about, pay a visit to Terroirs.

These minimally manipulated wines (most organic and/or biodynamic, made with little intervention from the winemakers) form nearly the whole list, and they keep this rustic-French-looking place jumping.

Plenty are on offer by the glass, and while it’s not bargain-basement cheap, it accurately reflects the cost of producing these wines.

If you’re more interested in the food than the vino, you won’t be disappointed: a changing list of small plates and plats du jour never falters in its high quality (or fair prices).