Berners Tavern

Berners Tavern, the restaurant at The London EDITION, showcases the genius of chef Jason Atherton and offers a private dining room.

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Berners Tavern

CONVENIENTLY SITUATED IN THE LONDON EDITION IN FITZROVIA, WE OFFER A CONTEMPORARY BRITISH MENU THAT IS SIMPLE YET ELEGANT, USING THE VERY BEST PRODUCE IN THE BRITISH ISLES.

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Restaurant review: Berners Tavern is grown-up and gorgeous but ...

If Helen Fielding was still writing her Independent column, the London Edition hotel is the place Bridget would come for her mojitos.

His revamp, with the Marriot group, of the grand old Berners Hotel, a faded Edwardian fossil on the same street as the Sanderson, brings another dash of pure razzle-dazzle to Fitzrovia.

This new venture – his third opening in recent months – may be called Berners Tavern, but it's no more a tavern than the River Café is a café, or Pollen Street Social is a working men's club.

The menu, like the pictures on the walls, covers everything; it's a salon hang, crowded with sharing platters and grills, Sunday roasts and dude-foodish sandwiches, elegant seafood dishes and Friday fish and chips.

Berners Tavern, The London Edition Hotel, 10 Berners Street, London W1 (020-7908 7979).

Berners Tavern, London W1, restaurant review - Telegraph

At Berners Tavern there is a central bank of showbiz seats, but it’s more graciously done – the banquettes facing outwards, the wall tables perfectly lovely – so the message is much more “come one, come all”.

T started with eggs, ham and peas (£8.50), which sounds simpler than it was.

It wasn’t, of course, least of all next to a spiced ice cream with a scattering of roasted nuts.

Expect gold, glamour and glorious food, from langoustine and caviar to roast pork belly with caramelised apples (£75 for three courses) with every table in this high-ceilinged restaurant set to face the elegantly draped windows, all eyes are on the commanding view of Ullswater.

Try venison with juniper-berry and rosemary sauce before the restaurant’s signature sticky toffee pudding (£75 for five courses)

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The wine list offered labels such as Gabrielskloof Sauvignon Blanc 2017 at £45 for a bottle that you can find in the high street for £11, Mount Pleasant Semillon “Elizabeth” 2007 at £65 compared to its retail price of £22, and Bachelder Chardonnay 2014 at £95 for a wne that will set you back £29 in the shops.

Raw tuna with avocado and chilli came with radishes, wasabi and a yuzu sauce.

Venison Wellington had pastry that was touch a touch on the soggy side, but had nice tasting meat, served with a sauce made from the cooking juices.

Service was excellent, our Sicilian waitress friendly and efficient, and the wine topping up could not be faulted.

The bill, however, is quite high, and whether you are comfortable with the value for money factor will depend on whether the grand setting and smooth service are worth the price premium that you pay.

Restaurant review: Berners Tavern is grown-up and gorgeous but ...

If Helen Fielding was still writing her Independent column, the London Edition hotel is the place Bridget would come for her mojitos.

His revamp, with the Marriot group, of the grand old Berners Hotel, a faded Edwardian fossil on the same street as the Sanderson, brings another dash of pure razzle-dazzle to Fitzrovia.

This new venture – his third opening in recent months – may be called Berners Tavern, but it's no more a tavern than the River Café is a café, or Pollen Street Social is a working men's club.

The menu, like the pictures on the walls, covers everything; it's a salon hang, crowded with sharing platters and grills, Sunday roasts and dude-foodish sandwiches, elegant seafood dishes and Friday fish and chips.

Berners Tavern, The London Edition Hotel, 10 Berners Street, London W1 (020-7908 7979).

Berners Tavern, London W1, restaurant review - Telegraph

At Berners Tavern there is a central bank of showbiz seats, but it’s more graciously done – the banquettes facing outwards, the wall tables perfectly lovely – so the message is much more “come one, come all”.

T started with eggs, ham and peas (£8.50), which sounds simpler than it was.

It wasn’t, of course, least of all next to a spiced ice cream with a scattering of roasted nuts.

Expect gold, glamour and glorious food, from langoustine and caviar to roast pork belly with caramelised apples (£75 for three courses) with every table in this high-ceilinged restaurant set to face the elegantly draped windows, all eyes are on the commanding view of Ullswater.

Try venison with juniper-berry and rosemary sauce before the restaurant’s signature sticky toffee pudding (£75 for five courses)

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Berners Tavern, in the supremely glamorous new London Edition hotel, is the second collaboration (after Istanbul) between Marriott and Ian Schrager, of Studio 54 notoriety and the man credited with inventing the boutique hotel.

Currently as ubiquitous as kale, chef Jason Atherton is le patron – not actually cooking there, but with his signature style sprawled all over the menu: local produce; Med nudging against true Brit; rich, sticky, carby things in little saucepans (halibut served with a spot-on squid ink risotto, topped with crisp fried calamari).

The dish that sums it all up is a deep-fried Clarence Court duck egg, a sausageless scotch, its orange yolk oozy and rich, on "mushy" peas of equally vivid hue and taste, with crisps of Cumbrian ham.

Burgers, too, are weirdly polite, perfectly imprisoned by lovely, burnished brioche buns, no meaty juices to dribble down wrists, none of the minerality or funk I expect from "aged Scottish beef".

Service – for which Atherton, Schrager and Marriott are all well known – is brilliant, clued-up, just the right side of pally, not thrown by even the curviest of curve ball.