Bellamy's

Bellamy's Restaurant is a French brasserie restaurant located off Berkeley Square,Mayfair..

Bellamy's Restaurant - French brasserie restaurant - Mayfair, London

http://www.bellamysrestaurant.co.uk

Bellamy's - London | Restaurant Review | The Arbuturian

Tucked neatly away at the far end of a mews off Berkeley Square lies Bellamy’s Restaurant.

Many a restaurant opening in London today goes for this gilded vintage look, but here there’s a sense that everything has been chosen extremely carefully, that each poster or image means something and tells a particular story.

There is little that intrigues, little that you won’t have tasted before, but there’s a fair chance that Bellamy’s representation of whatever well-loved dish you choose is flawless in its execution.

The reason the combination is iconic is because the flavours and textures of avocado and shellfish are a delight and Bellamy’s version does justice to the dish and repays the nostalgic zeal we exhibit in ordering it.

Versino is one of those wonderfully idiosyncratic producers of the Southern Rhone who makes wine that suggests ripe farmyards and crunchy berry fruit all at once – a marvellous, if acquired, flavour profile – very old school.

Inside Bellamy's the ONE restaurant fit for a Queen | Daily Mail Online

Gavin Rankin, the affable, charming owner of Bellamy’s brasserie in Mayfair, will absolutely not be drawn.

Without letting his ever-present smile drop for even a moment, he puts the matter to bed with a firm ‘we won’t be talking about that,’ before moving seamlessly on to rhapsodise about his, frankly astonishing, wine list, his friendly staff – ‘from 12 different nations’ – or loyal customer base, 80 per cent of whom are regulars who’ve been dining with him weekly at Bellamy’s for the past 10 years.

The only nod to Bellamy’s royal patronage is a small, unobtrusive photograph of the Queen hanging on a back wall in the bar, taken on the occasion of her first visit, in 2006.

The menu, which Rankin describes as ‘Franglish’, is packed with brasserie classics like duck rillettes (a must order), terrine of foie gras and steak tartare, but they sit alongside yellowfin sashimi, salt beef and Bellamy’s fish fingers.

Perhaps shockingly for a restaurant on the Queen’s wish list, Bellamy’s is affordable too.

Bellamy's - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens

Bellamy’s was established in 2004 and is named after the club in Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy of novels, which reassures our English customers.

There is also a happy pun with the title Bel Ami, the novel by Guy de Maupassant, which amuses our French customers.

Everyone else comes for the food and the wine list.

The intention was to incorporate and modernise the best elements of the Franco Belgian tradition of the brasserie, although in Bellamy’s there is less beer and rather more wine than was found in the original nineteenth century models.

Bellamy’s is a Restaurant with an unashamedly French wine list, with familiar names at reasonable prices reflecting my own prejudices on the subject.

Why Bellamy's is the Queen's most visited restaurant

Even for Her Majesty the Queen, who made a rare excursion to a London restaurant on Tuesday evening in the company of the Princess Royal, there are many factors involved in the choice of a dinner venue: the food, of course; the ambience; the wine list, perhaps; even the decor and the lighting.

Just a short stroll away, however, in a peaceful mews called Bruton Place, stands Bellamy’s.

This was the restaurant where the was headed to celebrate the 90th birthday of one of her oldest friends, Lady Penn a former lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother.

Bellamy’s has something rare in the increasingly flashy Mayfair restaurant scene: discretion.

The Queen does not dine out often, but - when she does - I suspect this is a quality she prizes above all others.

Bellamy's - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens

Bellamy’s was established in 2004 and is named after the club in Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy of novels, which reassures our English customers.

There is also a happy pun with the title Bel Ami, the novel by Guy de Maupassant, which amuses our French customers.

Everyone else comes for the food and the wine list.

The intention was to incorporate and modernise the best elements of the Franco Belgian tradition of the brasserie, although in Bellamy’s there is less beer and rather more wine than was found in the original nineteenth century models.

Bellamy’s is a Restaurant with an unashamedly French wine list, with familiar names at reasonable prices reflecting my own prejudices on the subject.

Everybody Eats Where? In London, England, Bellamy's Restaurant ...

(Sounds like an oxymoron) One of my most memorable meals on my recent trip to London, was eaten at Gavin Rankin's Bellamy's on Bruton Place just down the road from Berkeley Square.

Gavin brought Caviar Kaspia to London and was then lured away to run Mark Birley's empire which included Annabel's, Mark's Club, Harry's Bar, and George, which are now all owned by the unofficial Mayor of Mayfair Richard Caring.

Well, it feels like a luxurious canteen especially when Gavin is sitting at his small round table nearby the entrance to the dining room holding court and where he meets and greets his regulars and not-so-regulars, (David Hockney, Bryan Ferry, Kristin Scott Thomas, Elizabeth Hurley, Princess Michael of Kent, and Henry Kissinger are only some of the famous faces that dine at Bellamy's along with every U.S. Ambassador since Bellamy's opened its doors in 2004).

My friend said that I absolutely had to meet Gavin and dine at his wonderful restaurant.

Taking my friend's advice, I phoned Gavin, and was cordially invited to join him for dinner when I was in London in 2006 doing research for my book about legendary restaurants.

Bellamy's Bar - review | London Evening Standard

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Why Bellamy's is the Queen's most visited restaurant

Even for Her Majesty the Queen, who made a rare excursion to a London restaurant on Tuesday evening in the company of the Princess Royal, there are many factors involved in the choice of a dinner venue: the food, of course; the ambience; the wine list, perhaps; even the decor and the lighting.

Just a short stroll away, however, in a peaceful mews called Bruton Place, stands Bellamy’s.

This was the restaurant where the was headed to celebrate the 90th birthday of one of her oldest friends, Lady Penn a former lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother.

Bellamy’s has something rare in the increasingly flashy Mayfair restaurant scene: discretion.

The Queen does not dine out often, but - when she does - I suspect this is a quality she prizes above all others.