Bronte

Bronte, restaurant, café and terrace situated on the Strand serving modern British and Asian Cuisine as well as the best cocktails in London.

Bronte | Restaurant, café and terrace located on the Strand

Bronte Restaurant & Cocktail Bar; a modern day twist with classic style combines contemporary pan Asian fusion created by executive Chef Andrew Lassetter and the world of mixology to create the perfect ambiance for those looking for a fun dining and socializing experience.

Our extensive menu is available all day offering guests an opportunity to experience traditional breakfast and lunch items if you visit us before dinner.

Bronte serves a selection of dishes ranging from avocado toast smash to tuna tataki tostadas and funky fish and chips.

So no need to worry we’ve got something for everyone any time any day.

Conveniently located on the strand off Trafalgar square an iconic landmark in London our timeless Tom Dixon design sets the scene for those looking to let their hair down in a fun flirty and sophisticated manner.

http://bronte.co.uk

Bronte restaurant on The Strand review: the Pacific Rim-inspired ...

Last week it was Foley’s in Fitzrovia, with its spice trail-inspired menu that’s been inexplicably stretched to include South America.

And this week it was Andrew Lassetter and Jonathan Villar’s Bronte, which opened a few days ago on The Strand, with a menu that’s ostensibly inspired by the Pacific Rim, but also takes in the Middle East and southern Europe.

All of this sets off alarm bells: central location, loud music, garish design – not things that tend to suggest excellent cuisine.

The menu is divided into slightly ungainly sections: “small plates” (fine), “salads and Bronte dishes” (what?

Turns out “Bronte dishes” are mains not cooked on the grill – a burger, fish and chips, and an edamame and kale pancake), “grilled fish, meat and marinaded meat” (fine), and “sides and desserts” (no idea why you'd lump these together).

Bronte restaurant review: A fusion of Tom Dixon design and ...

New study shows drinking more coffee leads to a longer life There is good news and a final hope for coffee addicts and lovers.

New York restaurant named best in the world A New York restaurant where an average meal for two will cost $700 has been named the best in the world.

The restaurant was praised for a fun sense of fine-dining, “blurring the line between the kitchen and the dining room” A new bill has been created that seeks to ban dairy alternatives from using the term ‘milk’.

It argues that the dairy industry is struggling as a result of all the dairy-free alternatives on the market and the public are being duped too UK confectionary giant Cadbury has launched two new chocolate bars, hoping to lure those with a sweet tooth and perhaps help combat some of the challenges it faces from rising commodity prices and a post-Brexit slump in the value of the pound.The company’s new products will be peanut butter and mint flavoured.

New research has revealed that children across the UK just aren’t stepping up to the plate when it comes to simple facts about the food they eat – with almost half of children under eight not knowing that eggs come from chickens To encourage more people to cook and eat together, IKEA has launched The Dining Club in Shoreditch – a fully immersive ‘Do-It-Yourself’ restaurant .

Bronte review: Is this the most Instagram-friendly restaurant in ...

Situated right on the Strand, this Tom Dixon–designed restaurant is definitely worth a an evening visit… For more information about Bronte and for booking info, visit the site here.

The venue Located directly off Trafalgar Square, the restaurant is literally an Instagrammers dream (that’ll be thanks to interiors maestro Tom Dixon and his Design Research Studio).

Soft pink accents, (think signature Tom Dixon fan chairs plus a standout pink concrete breakfast bar) merge with deep green leather booths, brass trimmings and a huge pewter bar which gives it a sort of Orient Express meets Millennial Pink vibe – the sort of design you’d try to copy at home, but would fail, spectacularly.

Incredibly friendly and efficient staff, coupled with a pleasingly laid back vibe means this is the kind of place you could go for a coffee catch-up, ‘just one’ cocktail, or a full on three-course supper and still be made to feel at home What to eat The challenge with Bronte is that it’s hard to decide what not to eat on the menu.

Quite simply put, the mixologists at Bronte are true alchemists, so whether you opt for a classic espresso martini, or something more exotic on the fruity front – you are in for a treat.

Bronte, London WC1, restaurant review

Devotees of the 19th-century novel who have booked a table at Bronte in the hope that they’ll be served food of a windswept, glowering and generally romantic nature may be disappointed.

The Brontës of Howarth have nothing to do with the resolutely diaeresis-free Bronte, a smallish town in eastern Sicily, the dukedom of which was conferred on Horatio Nelson in 1799 by a grateful despot, to thank him for his role in the bloody suppression of a popular uprising in Naples, on account of which he (Nelson) would later be hauled before Parliament, along with William Hamilton, the then British ambassador or Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of the Two Sicilies, with whose second wife, Emma, Nelson was having a none-too-clandestine affair.

On second thoughts, maybe that’s all romantic enough to be going on with.

Bronte restaurant review: A fusion of Tom Dixon design and ...

Britain consumes more chocolate than any other country Most people love chocolate but it turns out no one does more than the Brits – with the average Brit found to have consumed 8.4 kg of chocolate in 2017, according to new data.

Chocolate consumption around the world is on the rise, according to Mintel Global New Products Database (GNPD), which found that in the past year alone, Easter chocolate production has risen by 23 per cent 'Easter eggs should be banned for children under four' Dr Becky Spelman, chief psychologist at Harley Street’s Private Therapy Clinic, is calling for Easter eggs to be banned for consumption for children under the age of four, claiming that giving them the opportunity to binge on chocolate so young will give them an unhealthy relationship with food later on.

"Once a child starts overeating behaviour at a young age it’s very hard to turn things around for them in terms of food and their eating habits moving forward, leading to obesity from at very young age," she added According to Tesco, pineapple has overtaken avocado as the UK’s fastest-selling fruit, with sales increasing by 15 per cent in 2017.

It argues that the dairy industry is struggling as a result of all the dairy-free alternatives on the market and the public are being duped too UK confectionary giant Cadbury has launched two new chocolate bars, hoping to lure those with a sweet tooth and perhaps help combat some of the challenges it faces from rising commodity prices and a post-Brexit slump in the value of the pound.The company’s new products will be peanut butter and mint flavoured.

New research has revealed that children across the UK just aren’t stepping up to the plate when it comes to simple facts about the food they eat – with almost half of children under eight not knowing that eggs come from chickens To encourage more people to cook and eat together, IKEA has launched The Dining Club in Shoreditch – a fully immersive ‘Do-It-Yourself’ restaurant .

Bronte, restaurant review: A destination for style plates | London ...

Bronte, on the site of what used to be the ill-favoured Strand Dining Rooms, has been designed by Tom Dixon OBE and his Design Research Studio, his first standalone restaurant since Eclectic in Paris (he also did Sea Containers at Mondrian London, which opened two years ago).

It is quite an amazing design, progressing from the colonnaded terrace, where we had a drink sitting in Dixon’s signature Fan chairs, in the sunshine and the bestial racket of London traffic, through an impressive double-height room, to a quieter, cooler almost aquarium-like dining room at the back.

Dixon has created some impressive installations specially for Bronte — there’s a phenomenal  massive pink concrete breakfast bar, for example and, at the back, a really beautiful drinks bar coated in gleaming pewter (why do people forget the beauty of pewter?

Crab and avocado rice paper wraps, vermicelli noodle, mango, mint, coriander and nam prik (£6) were also cold,  slightly slimy  rolls with surprisingly little taste of crab or much else, given such a rollcall of ingredients, except that supplied by a heavy dose of nam pla in the dipping sauce.

From “Salads and Bronte Dishes”, roasted rare beef, paw-paw, cucumber, mint, coriander, green chilli, pickled carrots and ground wild rice (£14) was again a little bit less than completely freshly prepared and a lot less interesting than its list of ingredients promised, a  bit dominated by the vinegary pickle.

Bronte, London WC1, restaurant review

Devotees of the 19th-century novel who have booked a table at Bronte in the hope that they’ll be served food of a windswept, glowering and generally romantic nature may be disappointed.

The Brontës of Howarth have nothing to do with the resolutely diaeresis-free Bronte, a smallish town in eastern Sicily, the dukedom of which was conferred on Horatio Nelson in 1799 by a grateful despot, to thank him for his role in the bloody suppression of a popular uprising in Naples, on account of which he (Nelson) would later be hauled before Parliament, along with William Hamilton, the then British ambassador or Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of the Two Sicilies, with whose second wife, Emma, Nelson was having a none-too-clandestine affair.

On second thoughts, maybe that’s all romantic enough to be going on with.

Bronte, London WC2: 'It doesn't know whether it's in Bangkok or ...

The first thing that strikes you as you walk through the copse of “Fan” chairs on the colonnaded terrace, under a firework display of glittering lampshades, is a vast bar fashioned from polished pink concrete.

Walls are punctuated by “Cabinets of Curiosities” collected from around the world, and the menu globetrots with the same giddy abandon: miso yoghurt, “weeping tiger dressing”, manuka honey, shiso, tabouli (sic).

The bastardised Scotch egg is a bit of a calling card these days, and Bronte’s version namedrops like a gap year backpacker: prawn and chorizo “sausage”, owing a debt to both the Iberian and Chinese love of pork with seafood, plus Aleppo pepper and Thai fish sauce notes in its dip.

For central London, nothing is wildly expensive, but many items are bulked up with ingredients that cost bugger all: chilly, Vietnamese-style summer rolls of crab and avocado are swollen with rice noodles; a version of their miso slaw turns up with almost every plate (they must grate cauldrons of the stuff).

“Weeping tiger” steak is nothing like the Thai classic salad: it’s two mini-kebabs of beef in a treacly, pub-BBQ glaze served with a sorta salsa: eminently neckable without being likely to trouble tigers with any kind of delicious pungency.