34 Mayfair

34 Mayfair is a modern grill restaurant in central London with a focus on meat, fish and seasonal ingredients, open for lunch and dinner with a weekend brunch and a private dining room and bar for hire

34 Mayfair | Steak & fish grill restaurant, London

https://www.34-restaurant.co.uk

34 Mayfair - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens

A clubby, tightly-packed Mayfair sibling to Le Caprice and so on, attracting the glitzy clientele you might expect; the cooking, however, isn't yet up to the standards of its nearest sibling, Scotts, though prices are quite reasonable, considering.

The menu is perhaps open to the same criticism as the flags - it's not quite sure where its affiliations really lie.

On the quality of the cuisine, initial impressions were very favourable - the bread is of high quality, and a fish soup was difficult to reproach.

Short ribs were dismissed by our guest as a bit of a mush, and he suggested, seemingly correctly, that under-seasoning is something of Leitmotif.

A shared apple tart for pudding was decent enough, but the espresso took us back into so-so territory, so all that can really be said about the quality of the cuisine here is that it appears to be consistent in its inconsistency.

34, 34 Grosvenor Square, London W1 | The Independent

My memories of this new Mayfair smoothie, the latest launch from Richard Caring's fast-expanding Caprice Holdings group, have soft-focused into a vague impression of luxury, of deep carpets and heavy silverware, all sepia-tinted by the glow from a host of flickering table lamps.

My lunch guest, Russell Norman, worked for Caring before branching out on his own with Polpo, and for old times' sake he ordered a Caprice classic, Caesar salad.

But it will doubtless become a favourite of the Mayfair set, who can watch their steaks sizzling on the grill, all trace of smoke whisked away by a top-of-the-range air conditioning system.

About £150 for two including wine and service Tipping policy: "Service charge is 12.5 per cent discretionary, of which 100 per cent goes to the staff; all tips go to the staff" Set up with BBQ expert Adam Perry Lang, Jamie Oliver's grill and in house butchers offers top quality British and Irish meat – try the 48 day dry-aged Rib-Eye for two.

The Grill on the Alley Offering Wagyu "Kobe" Fillet this steak house has a cut of meat for everyone, including a Best of British steak that changes each month - currently an Aberdeen Angus from Wales.

London brunch breakdown: 34, Mayfair | London Evening Standard

The restaurant’s lunch menu runs alongside the special brunch offering, with its famous steaks and grills available to mix and match.

Steak and eggs at 34   The 50 best brunches in London To drink The natural choice is Champagne.

The Champagne is served in the restaurant’s exclusive Kate Moss Coupe, which is modelled on the star’s left breast to reflect the history of the original Champagne coupe, which was apparently shaped around Marie Antoinette’s bosom.

Cheque out: Brunch dishes cost between £7.25 and £16.75, steaks start at £21.50 and a glass of house Champagne (which will topped up for free) costs £14.75.

Nearest tube: Marble Arch, Bond Street and Green Park stations are all close.

34, London W1, restaurant review - Telegraph

So we had a quick scuffle about who would get the grilled octopus (with Roseval potatoes and chorizo, £10.50), which she won, to my great advantage because that's how I ended up with the salt-baked beets and burrata (£13.50).

J J's octopus was a different kind of dish altogether, exploding with flavours and brightness and graded textures.

J J's lamb mixed grill (£23) was the more adventurous choice.

There were two gorgeous chunks of top-end lamb luxury (some loin and some neck fillet), and they were both meltingly smooth, which was particularly impressive seeing as she likes her lamb well done.

J J's fleur de sel chocolate and mint bombe (£7.50) was more eventful – it arrived as a perfect frozen ball of chocolate, into which the waiter (lovely staff, incidentally) poured hot chocolate sauce, so that the top melted, revealing the mint ice cream inside.

Straight Up: 34 Mayfair x Creed

When Richard Caring’s 34 Mayfair restaurant pitched up on Grosvenor Square in late 2011, it was almost as if it had always been there.

The glossy, art deco-influenced interiors, the live pianist, the simple, steak-focused menu: it’s an old-school ode to Upper East Side elegance, and quickly became a site of solace for the Mayfair elite.

Likewise the perfumer Creed, which began life as a Mayfair tailor in 1760 but only returned to its roots (having, since 1854, been based in France) in 2015, with the opening of its boutique on Mount Street: an opulent gold-and-black shrine to generations of fragrance-making history.

Restaurant review: 34, London W1 | John Lanchester | Life and style ...

Put aside the fact that it's designed for rich people who don't want to be distracted by what's on their plate, and Richard Caring's new place is really rather good In the crazed splurge of high-end openings that hit central London in the runup to Christmas, one of the most widely trailed was 34, Richard Caring's latest restaurant in, of course, Mayfair.

The story so far: Caring made his fortune in the schmutter business, before switching to the restaurant and club trade with extraordinary energy and conviction in the early years of this century.

He took over a range of prominent businesses – the Caprice group, the Soho House group, Annabel's nightclub, Wentworth golf club – but the first brand new restaurant opened in his new line of business was the Mayfair restaurant Scott's in 2007.

Scott's was an instant hit with the kind of customers it was seeking to attract: rich people who don't want to be distracted by what's on the plate in front of them.

Just as Scott's majors on fish without being a fish restaurant, 34 leads on meat and grills without being a steakhouse – it's less cigars-and-dark-wood than that, and less noisy.