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Alyn Williams, Westbury Hotel - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens
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Hidden-away inside Bond Street's only hotel, a grand new dining room for an ex-Marcus Wareing chef of whom we suspect we're going to be hearing a lot more; our lunchtime visit offered invariably high quality, and extraordinary overall value.
Half way up our grandest shopping thoroughfare, this hotel dining room certainly has a handy location.
Well, let's just say that, though the place reeks of money, it's been spent with more discretion than at the same hotel's tart's-boudoir-like number two restaurant, opened a few months ago, which trades under the name of The Gallery (of what, Bad Taste?)
In short, this is a suitable setting for an emerging name who was until recently head chef at Marcus Wareing's equally plush Knightsbridge joint.
The set lunch menu was presented almost apologetically, but surely few are the people who - especially in the early days of a restaurant - are particularly likely to want to embark on the full works?
Sotheby's Café - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens
Sotheby's Cafe, Bond Street, London | Restaurants/Afternoon Tea in ...
Sotheby's Café - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens
The Dock Kitchen, Portobello Dock, 342/433 Ladbroke Grove ...
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Tonight's cuisine is southern Italian (chef Stevie Parle, late of the River Café and Petersham Nurseries Café, is well travelled: other supper themes have been Scandinavian, Lebanese and Sri Lankan).
There was real skill in the cooking and when I discovered the dining space had just been reconfigured to add many more tables, I felt Dock Kitchen might deserve a second chance.
I go for three toasts, one each of spicy Calabrian sausage, fresh ricotta, and smashed broad beans (very tricolore, £7.50); Mr M chooses bull's heart tomatoes with sumac, za'atar, lemon and herbs (£6.50), because he figures to charge that for a plate of toms, they must be good.
Scores: 1-9 stay home and cook, 10-11 needs help, 12 ok, 13 pleasant enough, 14 good, 15 very good, 16 capable of greatness, 17 special, can't wait to go back, 18 highly honourable, 19 unique and memorable, 20 as good as it gets The Dock Kitchen Portobello Dock, 342/433 Ladbroke Grove, London W10, tel: 020 8962 1610 Lunch and dinner Tuesday to Saturday.
£26 a head for lunch, £35 for dinner, not including drinks This world-famous Italian which started off as a works canteen has reopened (after a refurbishment forced by a fire) with divine food, though its eye-popping prices are still high for such simple fare RIBA 66 Portland Place, London W1, tel: 020 7631 0467 A pretty, tucked-away garden and impressive Art Deco interior are the main draws to the café of this 1930s-built institution; food is incidental Tucked in to the auction house – off the foyer, in fact – this small but very classy café offers a perfect perch for a people-watching lunch; food is surprisingly good value, too
Sotheby's Restaurant - London, | OpenTable
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Sotheby's Cafe is very good for a special lunch with friends or relatives to combine with viewing for upcoming auctions.
It is also good as a cafe to drop in for a relaxing coffee or afternoon tea.
Service is friendly and good.
Sotheby's Cafe | Restaurants in Mayfair, London
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An alcove off Sotheby’s ground-floor main corridor seems an unlikely place to find a distinguished restaurant, but sweet, smooth service and a fabulously talented chef combine to make the unlikely a reality.
A carefully roasted fillet of salmon came with courgettes cut into fine shreds and tossed with feta and pine nuts atop a slice of toast.
Only a slight oiliness in the toast kept this from being a five-star dish.
The marriage of flavours between sweet mollusc, spicy sausage and subtly seasoned sweetcorn was simply sublime – one of the best things we’ve eaten in London in recent memory.
Chef Laura Greenfield is extraordinarily talented.