Barbecoa

Barbecoa is the Home of Smoke & Fire in London. Jamie Oliver reinvents the classic steakhouse restaurant with iconic venues in St Paul's.

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Barbecoa Review: Jamie Oliver's London Steakhouse | Elle Croft

I can almost guarantee that anyone who’s ever been to my house for dinner has eaten a Jamie recipe, and my meal at Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen restaurant in Melbourne was, to this day, one of the best I’ve ever had.

The kitchen in Barbecoa is, as Jamie Oliver describes it, an Aladdin’s cave of equipment: there’s a Japanese robata, an Argentinian grill, wood fired oven, a massive Texas-style smoker and even a tandoor oven.

Brendan chose the St Louis ribs with celeriac slaw, peach BBQ sauce and pickles, and we decided to share corn bread and beef dripping chips as sides.

Whatever the reason, if you’re looking for a great steakhouse in London, make sure you get to Jamie Oliver’s Barbecoa.

Thanks so much to Barbecoa for picking up the bill for Brendan and I. My Barbecoa review, as always, was a reflection of my own opinions.

Barbecoa Piccadilly - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens

The doors have now opened to Jamie Oliver’s second Barbecoa on London’s Piccadilly, located in a stunning grade II listed building.

Barbecoa Piccadilly is the perfect all-day dining destination in the heart of London.

Kick-start your day with an unforgettable breakfast of Barbecoa-style classics and gorgeous healthy options or join us for lunch and tuck into our set lunch menu.

Sit back and relax in our bar after lunch with our show-stopping afternoon tea that's served every day.

With a menu full of Barbecoa classics and the finest higher-welfare meat from UK farms, everything is cooked using traditional fire-based techniques.

Barbecoa Steakhouse Restaurants in London | Home of Smoke & Fire

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Barbecoa Piccadilly - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens

The doors have now opened to Jamie Oliver’s second Barbecoa on London’s Piccadilly, located in a stunning grade II listed building.

Barbecoa Piccadilly is the perfect all-day dining destination in the heart of London.

Kick-start your day with an unforgettable breakfast of Barbecoa-style classics and gorgeous healthy options or join us for lunch and tuck into our set lunch menu.

Sit back and relax in our bar after lunch with our show-stopping afternoon tea that's served every day.

With a menu full of Barbecoa classics and the finest higher-welfare meat from UK farms, everything is cooked using traditional fire-based techniques.

Jamie's latest plank: Barbecoa on Piccadilly | The Spectator

Barbecoa is Jamie Oliver’s new restaurant on Piccadilly, and no matter how many times I mutter the name, I do not know what it means, if it means anything; it may be a posh riff on barbecue, which does not need gentrifying, because barbecue is cuisine’s mass murder.

Then I ate at Jamie’s Italian in Soho and met a plank resting on two tins of tomato paste bearing greasy salami and cold cheese, and steak frites that thought they were Italian, and I stopped liking him.

There is a peculiar depravity to the mid-market family restaurant in central London that offers bad value through a good name, and I cannot forgive Jamie for pretending he was different; for pretending, as he ripped up basil with his bare hands and told men, yeah, you can cook, that he was my mate.

Inside, the design is a queasy, unconvincing Art Deco, which makes Barbecoa look like every other giant restaurant that has opened in London in the past two years.

It is a shame that a steak restaurant excels in vegetables, but Barbecoa does: the dauphinoise potatoes and creamed spinach are the best thing we eat, aside from the bread.

Grace Dent reviews Barbecoa: Jamie, I adore you, but you wouldn't ...

And it’s not difficult to fall on to my food-world bad list either.

Read all the latest restaurant news and reviews When Oliver planned his second Barbecoa — ‘The Home of Smoke and Fire’ — in Piccadilly, I’ve no doubt he and a team plotted arduously to make it fantastic, efficient and fun.

Barbecoa is a grown-up, all-day, multi-purpose behemoth serving breakfasts, steaks, meat, oysters, afternoon teas and on and on.

The week I popped to Barbecoa, I viewed photos of Oliver and Gennaro Contaldo in the Piccadilly kitchen, sleeves rolled up, purportedly mid-service.

When I popped by to eat meat and veg at a place literally specialising in meat and veg, there was no trace of Oliver’s charm, pizzazz, technique or obsession with flavour.

Barbecoa, London: restaurant review | Life and style | The Guardian

Meal for two, including wine and service: £175 (if you trip up on the wine list) Earlier this year Jamie Oliver announced he was closing six branches of his Jamie’s Italian chain because, y’know, BREXIT!

What’s more, while the weak pound has increased imported food costs by up to 20%, the bulk of the most expensive items on the Jamie’s Italian menus – the meat – is proudly declared as British.

Still, if he says it was down to Brexit and not just that people didn’t want to eat in branches of an increasingly ersatz high-volume Britalian, with a menu full of annoying dish titles – “crunchy Italian nachos” anyone?

The first wine I choose, from a list that accelerates from just about affordable to “stop hurting me” faster than a Brexiteer reneging on economic promises, is a tooth-numbingly sweet Riesling that the sommelier had first said was dry.

■ If you don’t fancy a pre-dinner drink in the bar of lost souls at Barbecoa, pop next door to Fortnum & Mason and the recently opened third-floor bar.

Jamie Oliver's Barbecoa restaurants go into administration | Life and ...

Jamie Oliver’s upmarket Barbecoa steakhouses in London have crashed into administration, with 80 staff losing their jobs at the group’s Piccadilly site.

The celebrity chef’s company scrambled together a last-minute deal to save the group’s other outlet – located near St Paul’s Cathedral – with a newly created subsidiary in Oliver’s business empire buying the City diner straight out of administration for an undisclosed sum.

Oliver had to pump £3m of his own cash into his Jamie’s Italian chain in December and is now planning to close 12 of its 37 UK branches.

A spokesperson for Oliver said: “We can confirm that Barby Limited has been placed into administration.

One New Change Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group, has purchased the assets and lease of Barbecoa St Paul’s and will be trading as normal.”

Restaurant Review – Barbecoa Piccadilly

Since then, as well as closing a number of restaurants, Jamie Oliver has recently opened a brand new shiny Barbecoa on Piccadilly, a few doors along from Fortnum & Mason.

Cooked exceptionally well, the lobster is accompanied by a decadent sauce of cream and cheese that works surprisingly well with the char from the aggressive cooking method generally associated with large hunks of meat.

Bafflingly, the steak is also less expensive than one of the only British cuts served at the slate that the dish is served on.

Unsurprisingly, the custard panna cotta is astonishingly dense, almost overbearingly so, but strands of rhubarb are tart enough to save this dish and cut through the panna cotta’s toothsome sweetness, restoring balance.

Though the newest branch of Barbecoa is not necessarily central London’s best steakhouse, and the menu has its imperfections, the food that’s done well is absolutely “pukka”.

Barbecoa Piccadilly – CLOSED | Restaurants in St James', London

Please note, Barbecoa Piccadilly is now closed.

Set across a couple of huge floors, the look is one of subtly masculine glam: low-slung velvet banquettes and art deco chandeliers.

I take a seat downstairs near the semi-open kitchen and sink into that velvet.

Barbecoa used to be all about the barbecue, but this menu has far less of that than I expected.

A shame, because the barbecue dishes here are by far the best.