Balthazar

Balthazar London serves traditional brasserie fare all day, seven days a week from 7am (8am on weekends) until late. Call +44 (0)20 3301 1155 to book.

Balthazar London | All-Day Brasserie Dining in Covent Garden

In the heart of Covent Garden, Balthazar is open all day, seven days a week, serving breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner, as well as an amazing weekend brunch.

Great French bistro food, good wine and friendly service are the order of the day.

Balthazar’s Boulangerie next door serves homemade artisan breads, pastries, salads and sandwiches to eat in, take away or have delivered.

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Balthazar London | All-Day Brasserie Dining in Covent Garden

In the heart of Covent Garden, Balthazar is open all day, seven days a week, serving breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner, as well as an amazing weekend brunch.

Great French bistro food, good wine and friendly service are the order of the day.

Balthazar’s Boulangerie next door serves homemade artisan breads, pastries, salads and sandwiches to eat in, take away or have delivered.

Balthazar - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens

On a prominent Covent Garden corner, a grand brasserie with plenty of Paris-meets-New York buzz; early days reviews have been decidedly mixed, but our visit a couple of months after opening was an all-round success.

Only those recently returned from Mars will need much reminding about the back story of this prominently-sited brasserie - the grand Gallic operation from New York's SoHo, recently exported to Covent Garden by a celebrated New York restaurateur, Londoner Keith McNally, with the backing of the 'Lex Luthor of Mayfair', Richard Caring.

This is, as we all know, essentially 'just' a Gallic brasserie.

It helps that this light, high-ceilinged corner site (the former Theatre Museum, much fought-over when it came up for grabs) is perfect for its starring role - brasseries should really, as here, be on the ground floor, the lack of which positioning restrains the appeal of such otherwise authentic-feeling competitors as Le Café Anglais and Zédel.

Unless you're on expenses, we can't really see the point of aiming for the top end: brasseries are about robust food and enjoyment, and our mid-price dishes - such as steak tartare and confit of duck - all precisely hit their mark.

Review: Balthazar, 4-6 Russell Street, London | The Independent

And into the old premises of the Theatre Museum in Covent Garden comes another New York hit, Balthazar, an almost exact replica of the wildly successful SoHo original.

One of a stable of era-defining Manhattan hot-spots created by London-born restaurant legend Keith McNally, the original Balthazar was a New York take on the classic French brasserie.

The London version, backed to the tune of squillions by Richard Caring, is McNally's first opening outside New York.

With its brass-buttoned red leather banquettes, mosaic-tiled floor and enormous foxed mirrors, it's like the dream version of your favourite restaurant (especially if your favourite restaurant happens to be Balthazar in New York).

All tips and service charge go to the staff' Daniel Boulud is the top French chef who brought his fabulous New York bistro to London – the burgers are delicious and well-priced.

Balthazar London | All-Day Brasserie Dining in Covent Garden

In the heart of Covent Garden, Balthazar is open all day, seven days a week, serving breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner, as well as an amazing weekend brunch.

Great French bistro food, good wine and friendly service are the order of the day.

Balthazar’s Boulangerie next door serves homemade artisan breads, pastries, salads and sandwiches to eat in, take away or have delivered.

Giles Coren Blasts Balthazar London, Calls it the 'Worst Food in ...

New York restaurateur Keith McNally's new London location of Balthazar opened last month, and as reviews trickle in, it seems that everyone loves it.

Calling it "the best restaurant in London, and the worst food in Europe," Coren gave Balthazar London 0 out of 10 points for food while giving a near-perfect 9 to both the service and the decor.

Still, Coren is disappointed that the flash of a good room distracted people from the food: "I had hoped that London was too sophisticated now to fall for this sort of thing, but the critics seem to be going wild for it."

Guy Dimond at Time Out London gave Balthazar five out of five stars, writing "Balthazar London mimics the New York original perfectly."

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Balthazar, London

Balthazar - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens

On a prominent Covent Garden corner, a grand brasserie with plenty of Paris-meets-New York buzz; early days reviews have been decidedly mixed, but our visit a couple of months after opening was an all-round success.

Only those recently returned from Mars will need much reminding about the back story of this prominently-sited brasserie - the grand Gallic operation from New York's SoHo, recently exported to Covent Garden by a celebrated New York restaurateur, Londoner Keith McNally, with the backing of the 'Lex Luthor of Mayfair', Richard Caring.

This is, as we all know, essentially 'just' a Gallic brasserie.

It helps that this light, high-ceilinged corner site (the former Theatre Museum, much fought-over when it came up for grabs) is perfect for its starring role - brasseries should really, as here, be on the ground floor, the lack of which positioning restrains the appeal of such otherwise authentic-feeling competitors as Le Café Anglais and Zédel.

Unless you're on expenses, we can't really see the point of aiming for the top end: brasseries are about robust food and enjoyment, and our mid-price dishes - such as steak tartare and confit of duck - all precisely hit their mark.

Review: Balthazar, 4-6 Russell Street, London | The Independent

And into the old premises of the Theatre Museum in Covent Garden comes another New York hit, Balthazar, an almost exact replica of the wildly successful SoHo original.

One of a stable of era-defining Manhattan hot-spots created by London-born restaurant legend Keith McNally, the original Balthazar was a New York take on the classic French brasserie.

The London version, backed to the tune of squillions by Richard Caring, is McNally's first opening outside New York.

With its brass-buttoned red leather banquettes, mosaic-tiled floor and enormous foxed mirrors, it's like the dream version of your favourite restaurant (especially if your favourite restaurant happens to be Balthazar in New York).

All tips and service charge go to the staff' Daniel Boulud is the top French chef who brought his fabulous New York bistro to London – the burgers are delicious and well-priced.

Balthazar: restaurant review | John Torode - olive magazine

The dinner menu is hot on brasserie classics such as platters of fruit de mer chicken liver and foie gras mousse, and duck confit.

Of the dishes we tried, the best was the chicken liver and foie gras mousse sweet and soft.

The Balthazar salad was a typical chopped salad and had a good sweet dressing.

The menu was typically French, with a large choice of fish and shellfish and prices that reflected the Covent Garden location.

My boyfriend had the enticing lamb T-bone cooked as recommended but served withan under-spiced merguez sausage.We were also given a complimentary portion of creamy garlic-infused gratin dauphinois, usually as there was a delay with our main courses.

Balthazar, London WC2, restaurant review - Telegraph

T has a lovely habit of telling me four hours beforehand how many things he wants to eat off the menu, so I walked in knowing he'd be on the horns of a four-starter dilemma.

His bizarre choice of main was spinach pithivier (£14.50), which arrived as a sort of puff-pastry top hat, covering tightly packed spinach with pine nuts, moated with a mushroom sauce.

The pastry was fantastic, the spinach was bland (I also had it as a side and that was bland, too) and the mushrooms were so salty that the entire thing functioned like a taste-bud extremity torture.

With its chic monochrome décor, laid-back vibe (you can pop in for just a main course and glass of wine for £10), and fantastic French cooking, this bistro is a local hit.

Try scallops with beurre noisette (£18.95) For a casual lunch or candlelit dinner in the West End, this buzzy restaurant is a great choice.

Balthazar: restaurant review | Life and style | The Guardian

Dealing with all those hand-wringing emails from Keith McNally, the British bloke who opened the original in New York and who has now joined forces with Richard Caring of the Caprice group to bring it to London.

Balthazar is certainly that, from the faux-nicotine-stained walls to the station clock, and the poised amber hue which makes the whole place look like it's been shot through an Instagram filter.

In one of his emails responding to my complaints about not being able to bag a table, McNally admitted he was "embarrassed" by the hotness thing.

That's why they've opened the bloody place in London.

The best dishes we tried were a seafood linguine with lots of roast garlic and bite and kick, and a crème brûlée.