The Harcourt

Welcome to The Harcourt, a modern, Scandinavian restaurant, bar and private dining space on Marylebone's Harcourt Street.

The Harcourt • Scandinavian Restaurant & Pub in Marylebone

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The Harcourt restaurant review: Reindeer and meatballs are ...

And you’re in luck, because British pub food has never been so good.

It’s located down the road from the Swedish Ulrika Eleonora church – which has lovely stained glass windows – and isn’t far from the Swedish embassy; the arrival of Finnish chef Kimmo Makkonen (whose CV includes The Orrery, Blanford Street Restaurant, Aubergine, The Greenhouse and Avenue) cements its Scandinavian credentials.

There’s a bar downstairs that’s a bit more pubbish, but even that doesn’t feel like the kind of place you’d pop in for a swift pint to take the edge off a dour service at Ulrika Eleonora’s (also, you can only access the bar through the upstairs restaurant, which I imagine would create an annoying bottleneck when it gets busy).

The menu is British with a Nordic slant, and filled with things that are very good indeed; simple stuff, lots of fish, minimal amount of faff.

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The Harcourt Hotel - Harcourt Street - Dublin Hotel Accommodation

All of the rooms are ensuite with multi channel TV, direct dial telephone, tea / coffee making facilities and hair dryers.

The bedrooms are distributed evenly between 2 blocks: the main and what we refer to as our new wing (one door away) We have smoking and non smoking rooms available on dedicated floors.

View Rooms All of the rooms are ensuite with multi channel TV, direct dial telephone, tea / coffee making facilities and hair dryers.

In addition are equipped with either an iron and ironing board or a garment press.The bedrooms are distributed evenly between 2 blocks: the main and what we refer to as our new wing (one door away)We have smoking and non smoking rooms available on dedicated floors.Our rooms type combination is one of the most flexible in the city.

Temple Bar and all major attractions are all within walking distance of our hotel.The Hotel currently incorporates eight Georgian listed buildings, one of which was a former home to George Bernard Shaw.Our Dublin Hotel facilities include over 100 bedrooms, ‘1900’ restaurant, Dtwo bar and nightclub and an all weather heated beer garden.

Restaurant Review: The Harcourt

The Harcourt’s Scandi take on pub grub boasts reindeer and liquorice-laced chocolate mousse.

The flattering lighting continues out the back where the former pub garden has been transformed into a more whimsical, colonial-style room, with hanging plants, rattan furniture, huge bell jar lanterns and contemporary art curated by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.

Upstairs there are two private dining rooms for feasts or fika (the Nordic equivalent of afternoon tea).

The fish is beautifully firm but comes swimming in a creamy sauce with a flotsam of cuttlefish, mussels, potato, samphire and cubes of cucumber that is a bit on the rich side, although I still manage to make room for huge spoonfuls of a decadent dark chocolate mousse, laced with liquorice and lashings of salted caramel.

The Harcourt might look like your average pub from the outside, but as long as you don’t mind some reindeer with your pint instead of a packet of salt and vinegar, you shouldn’t be too disappointed.

Grace Dent reviews The Harcourt: Promising the world but not quite ...

Unlike said Instagrammers, very often I come home from restaurants and ponder the evening for days.

We went to the newly refurbished Scandinavian restaurant The Harcourt, Marylebone on a Saturday night.

Probably, as the dining room is so cavernous, they’d rather people didn’t go into it as it must be unmanageable without dozens of waitresses.

I call this the ‘Clos Maggiore effect’, after the famous Covent Garden restaurant which sells itself almost entirely on photos of one small, breathtaking room filled with indoor greenery, but makes no guarantee you’ll get anywhere near it.

The most puzzling part of dinner was the Bramley apple with hazelnut crumb and vanilla ice cream, which looked so heinous I have puzzled for six days over how it left the kitchen.

Michael Deacon reviews The Harcourt, London: 'Supple, limber ...

The Harcourt 32 Harcourt Street, London, W1H 4HX 8660 Price: Dinner for two, three courses for two (without alcohol), £78 It’s a difficult one.

You’ve seen an item on the menu with an unfamiliar name.

On the other hand, you’re wary of mispronouncing its name, for fear of looking to the waiter – or to your date – like some clueless rube who’s never been to a restaurant before, and might at any moment start picking his nose with the fork.

I was having this dilemma at The Harcourt.

All the worse for me, of course, because I’m supposed to be a restaurant reviewer, so it would make me look pretty bad if I got it wrong.