Picture Fitzrovia

Atmospheric restaurants serving British small plates inspired by seasonal produce.

Picture Restaurant | Welcoming, independant restaurants in Fitzrovia and Marylebone

For reservations of more than 5 guests, or if you can't find the time you are after, please call or email the restaurant you are trying to book and we will try our best to fit you in.

Can’t find your preferred booking time?

Picture Fitzrovia and Picture Marylebone are just minutes apart so remember to check both if your ideal time isn’t showing as available, or call us on 020 7637 7898/020 7935 0058 Please note that we may require your table back after two hours.

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Bitten&Written | Restaurant Review | Picture Restaurant, Fitzrovia

The menu kicks along at an exhilarating pace, dashing between influences, taking in smoked eel and pickled vegetables; crisp pork cheek and BBQ sauce; rabbit shoulder and mushroom ravioli; lebanese fried chicken; spiced lamb meatloaf; rare beef salad; crispy squid.

Pick up and gnaw like a neanderthal, the way they should be eaten.Impeccable pasta parcels holding roughly hewn rabbit shoulder, a tangle of wild mushrooms in the mix.Deeply flavoured egg dish with a savoury marmalade base of onions and mushroom lurking beneath, shaved fresh mushrooms, a satisfying honk of earthy fungus, oozy egg spilling its contents into the ensemble.A dish evoking memories of their previous roles, Arbutus and Wild Honey have done much to raise the profile of smoked eel over the years.

Cute multicoloured heritage carrots stretching their spindly tendrils off the edge of the plate, heritage beetroots, slab of glistening smoked eel.A slab of pork jowl cooked to quivering tenderness, a couple of salty shards of crackling, fused with the current white-hot trend for all things BBQ, the sweet and tangy sauce a fine foil.

How about some of these as a bar snack, please?There are a couple of larger dishes at the �13-15 mark, but these somehow get lost and ignored in a mournful looking box to the right of the menu; all the real fun seems to be happening in the sprawling and unstructured list of dishes on the left.The wine list follows on from the trailblazing standard originally set at, opening the entire list up by the glass and carafe, a tight list of eleven reds and eleven whites.

Bold dishes hopping with flavour, a room that hasn’t been designed within an inch of its life, and no overt artifice: just a place serving good food with a confident swagger.Picture that.

Picture Restaurant | Welcoming, independant restaurants in ...

For reservations of more than 5 guests, or if you can't find the time you are after, please call or email the restaurant you are trying to book and we will try our best to fit you in.

Can’t find your preferred booking time?

Picture Fitzrovia and Picture Marylebone are just minutes apart so remember to check both if your ideal time isn’t showing as available, or call us on 020 7637 7898/020 7935 0058 Please note that we may require your table back after two hours.

Restaurant review: Picture, 110 Great Portland St, London W1 | The ...

Set up by three defectors from the Arbutus/Wild Honey group, two chefs and a manager, it's the restaurant equivalent of BBC Four – upmarket but quirky, with crossover appeal to a wider audience.

If you were pitching Picture's menu to a commissioning editor, you'd describe it as modern mainstream with a twist; small sharing plates of ingredient-led British fare that's taken a grand tour of Northern Europe and the Middle East.

From the Nordic end of the menu, pickled silver darlings – not an old-school Radio 3 producer, but rollmop herrings, swaddling a sour-sharp dice of gherkins, capers and raw onions.

Not quite sure I'd got the whole Picture, I went back for dinner with my own silver darling, and found the room warmer and more convivial at night, although the calamitous acoustics need attention, perhaps from a moonlighting sound engineer.

But again, even if some dishes slightly missed the mark, there were stand-outs to compensate – lightly poached salmon, topped with a crisp of its own skin and partnered with curried cauliflower and sultanas; a dark and seductive hunk of slow-cooked lamb shoulder with puréed fava beans.

REVIEW: Picture Restaurant, Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia - The ...

The thing I love most about Picture restaurant is that they don’t get silly when it comes to pricing their food.

I often used to completely overlook such dishes when ordering in a restaurant, but I learnt that more times than not you get so much flavour, it’s filling and you get lots of it – mostly for very little money.

Grilled tenderstem broccoli, fresh goats curd, plum tomatoes and capers was a dish which should be the foundations of how to make simple food, taste amazing.

The soft puy lentils were perfect for soaking up all the juice on the plate and the streaks of dill flavour running through the dish were lovely.

Dessert is always a dish which is the easiest to play with and for a restaurant serving already great food, it would be a good way to raise the bar even more and leave that lasting impression for that final course.

Restaurant review: Picture, 110 Great Portland St, London W1 | The ...

Set up by three defectors from the Arbutus/Wild Honey group, two chefs and a manager, it's the restaurant equivalent of BBC Four – upmarket but quirky, with crossover appeal to a wider audience.

If you were pitching Picture's menu to a commissioning editor, you'd describe it as modern mainstream with a twist; small sharing plates of ingredient-led British fare that's taken a grand tour of Northern Europe and the Middle East.

From the Nordic end of the menu, pickled silver darlings – not an old-school Radio 3 producer, but rollmop herrings, swaddling a sour-sharp dice of gherkins, capers and raw onions.

Not quite sure I'd got the whole Picture, I went back for dinner with my own silver darling, and found the room warmer and more convivial at night, although the calamitous acoustics need attention, perhaps from a moonlighting sound engineer.

But again, even if some dishes slightly missed the mark, there were stand-outs to compensate – lightly poached salmon, topped with a crisp of its own skin and partnered with curried cauliflower and sultanas; a dark and seductive hunk of slow-cooked lamb shoulder with puréed fava beans.

Picture Fitzrovia, London: 'Exceptionally good' – restaurant review ...

Picture Fitzrovia, 110 Great Portland Street, London W1W 6PQ (020 7637 7892).

Meal for two including drinks and service: £120 As a restaurant critic, my body is not entirely my own; I sacrifice it weekly in the service of your reading pleasure.

And suddenly there we are, giddy with our own spontaneity, getting out of a cab in front of a huge, brightly lit picture window of a sort designed to let passers by see what a fabulous time richer people than them are having.

Caramelised onion ravioli in a sweet-sour tomato sauce, with some bitter leaf greens and lots of salty pecorino, is comfort food that doesn’t quite want to give you the full hug.

It’s the kind of thing London does very well right now, at London prices: the service is calm, quiet and understated.

Picture | Restaurants in Fitzrovia, London