The Wolseley

The Wolseley is a café-restaurant in the grand European tradition located on Piccadilly, London. Discover our Afternoon Tea and dining menus.

The Wolseley | European Café Restaurant in Mayfair, London

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My all-time favourite? It's this Piccadilly classic | Daily Mail Online

And at this very moment, on a blue-skied day so crisp you could break it in half and spread it with butter, there’s nowhere I’d rather be.

Four varieties of raclette cheese, from four different cantons, each with their own subtly distinctive allure, the great wheels of cheese sliced in half, then held under the great iron grill until they soften and lasciviously yield to the scraper’s blade.

If restaurants are an art, then The Wolseley is a masterpiece, the whole package, the perfect storm of style, service and succour.

Yup, The Wolseley’s definitely my favourite restaurant in London.

First day of half term, so after the obligatory trip to the dentist, lunch at Royal China Club in Marylebone.

The Wolseley - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens

Starting with Le Caprice in 1981, Jeremy King and Christopher Corbin built up one of London's most impressive restaurant empires of recent times.

The answer turned out to The Wolseley.

And if the food and service were a bit up-and-down - well, hey, it was early days.

True, the place is still hailed in some circles as something of a glamour destination, but standards of food and service over the past two years - as recorded by our surveys - have never risen much above good-to-middling.

So it was a good thing we knew we had enjoyed what is still sometimes tipped as one of London's great restaurant experiences.

Wolseley restaurant review 2012 October London | British Cuisine ...

The Wolseley has become a London institution, based in what was once a bank with a lovely, high-ceilinged dining room in a great location just along from The Ritz.

The mostly French wine list has just over 50 labels, ranging in price from £19.75 to £235, with a median price of £42 a bottle and an average mark-up 2.9 times the retail price, which is pretty average for central London and less than you will often see in Mayfair.

As is usual, the mark-up levels were much kinder at the high end of the wine list.

Example wines were Bianco di Custoza 2011 Monte del Fra at £23 for a wine that you can find in the high street for £8.40, Sancerre 2010 Domaine de la Chézatte at £43.50 for a wine that retails at £14.40, and Brunello di Montalcino 2005 Pian dell’Orino at £78.50 compared to a shop price of around £39.60.

Overall the Wolseley is something of a machine, processing large numbers of diners with efficiency rather than any great charm, the food being consistent and competently made, but no more than that.

The Wolseley - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens

Starting with Le Caprice in 1981, Jeremy King and Christopher Corbin built up one of London's most impressive restaurant empires of recent times.

The answer turned out to The Wolseley.

And if the food and service were a bit up-and-down - well, hey, it was early days.

True, the place is still hailed in some circles as something of a glamour destination, but standards of food and service over the past two years - as recorded by our surveys - have never risen much above good-to-middling.

So it was a good thing we knew we had enjoyed what is still sometimes tipped as one of London's great restaurant experiences.

Fischer's, restaurant review: The duo behind the Wolseley and ...

Austria produced, in Adolf Hitler, a son that no civilized people would ever want to claim; but it also produced, at precisely the same time, men who personified the very civilization that was about to collapse.

Six days after Hitler was born on the Austro-Hungarian side of the Bavarian border, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the most important philosopher of the 20th century, was born in Vienna.

The branded plates have golden rims; the mustard-brown tiles glint in sunlight beaming through a glass roof; a huge, dangling octagonal clock creates a railway-terminal vibe; the portraits are sepia-tinged; and the delightful waiting staff wear smart khaki-green waistcoats and olive-green ties.

Himmel und Erde – heaven and earth (£7.25) – is a plop of salty, rich black pudding on apple sauce, making the name only half-right: this is pure heaven, as long as you're not one dose of cholesterol from heart failure, in which case it could send you there.

This is a slowly cooked, ultra-tender bit of cow delivered atop roasted veg, with a rich, almost coffee-like gravy, and a strange spinach and cream accompaniment.

Restaurants: The Wolseley, W1 | Life and style | The Guardian

Plus, what 2004 will be serving up The last time I went to the building which houses the new Wolseley restaurant-cafe on London's Piccadilly, I ate lousy Chinese food for which they tried to charge me double.

Naturally, it is the ability of the Wolseley to place Havers and Collins within air-kissing distance of each other that will attract most attention.

Jeremy King and Chris Corbin, who have been out of London restaurants for a few years under the terms of the sale of their previous wildebeest watering holes, the Ivy and the Caprice, know exactly what they are doing.

You can stop by for an emergency croissant, or for a sandwich at lunchtime, or for full afternoon tea, complete with a torte list rich enough to make a Viennese waltz with pleasure.

So you can do French - escargot, cassoulet, tarte du jour; or British - bubble and squeak, roast beef, Welsh rarebit; or American - eggs Benedict, hamburger, ice cream; or even Jewish - chopped liver or chicken soup, Wiener schnitzel, ooh, every single pudding that's on offer.

The Wolseley | Restaurants in St James', London

A self-proclaimed ‘café-restaurant in the grand European tradition’, the Wolseley combines London heritage and Viennese grandeur.

Nevertheless, it’s now firmly on many a London visitor’s checklist, alongside nearby bastion of tradition Fortnum & Mason.

The Wolseley Restaurant London Review

The Bottom Line The Wolseley is a cafe-restaurant on Londons Piccadilly worth visiting for its grand interior as well as its excellent Eggs Benedict.

Address: The Wolseley, 160 Piccadilly, London W1J 9EB Telephone: 020 7499 6996 Official Website: www.thewolseley.com No PhotographyYou are not permitted to take photos inside The Wolseley which is a good thing as you must then enjoy the moment and rely on your eyes to capture the splendor of the interior.

Free Postage Paid PostcardsOutside the restrooms downstairs you can pick up postcards of the interior of The Wolseley.

I had to reserve a table but was able to book just a few days before and was informed on the phone that i could have the table for 1.5 hours, which is more than enough time for breakfast.

The Breakfast Menu features lots of pastries and plenty of English options including a bacon and fried egg roll, kippers (fish), and the traditional full English fried breakfast.