Antidote restaurant

We offer a food menu that changes every day and an extensive wine list of biodynamic and organic wines. Open everyday except sunday. Call us 0207 287 8488

Antidote Wine Bar - 12A Newburgh St, London W1F 7RR - 0207 287 8488

Born in Normandy, Guillaume moved to London in 1995.

He was part of the team that opened the acclaimed “La Trouvaille” in 2001, one of the first restaurant to offer an organic and biodynamic wine list.

Following the success of La Trouvaille, Guillaume and his partners opened Antidote in 2011.

Having had years of experience in the industry and built great relationship with natural wine growers around Europe, he decided Antidote would focus on showcasing the best natural wine growers and offer the perfect wine experience to its customers in a relaxed atmosphere.

When it’s not about food and wine then it’s about music.

https://antidotewinebar.com

Antidote, restaurant review: One visit to Mikael Jonsson's Soho venue

Writing in December 2012, Pete Wells, restaurant critic of The New York Times, gave the following answer to a reader's question: "For a full-length review that is subject to the star system (whether the restaurant ends up getting any stars or not), Times critics always visit the restaurant at least three times.

If ever there were a more characteristic statement from a New York Times journalist, oozing all the spare time and money and lashings of pomposity that East Coast journalism takes such pride in, regardless of financial solvency, I would be surprised.

Yet, in keeping with the New York Times approach to such matters, Wells's attitude may be annoying but is probably right.

But the only man who has ever brought out my inner New York Times hack is the Swedish chef Mikael Jonsson.

Then I went back, and gave it 9/10, having confirmed suspicions that it was the best new restaurant in London.

Review of London French restaurant Antidote by Andy Hayler in July ...

The quail was lovely, the skin crisp, the flavour of the bird excellent, with good quality mushrooms and sauces that went well together (16/20).

This resulted in superbly tender meat with plenty of flavour, served with brassica and sweet red Grelotte onions (16/20).

Even better were superb English raspberries with oatmeal parfait, the fruit having terrific flavour (16/20).

The bill, with plenty of good wine, came to £91 a head.

If you shared a bottle of modest wine and had three courses and coffee then a typical lunch bill would have been around £55 a head.

Antidote

Antidote, restaurant review: One visit to Mikael Jonsson's Soho venue

Writing in December 2012, Pete Wells, restaurant critic of The New York Times, gave the following answer to a reader's question: "For a full-length review that is subject to the star system (whether the restaurant ends up getting any stars or not), Times critics always visit the restaurant at least three times.

If ever there were a more characteristic statement from a New York Times journalist, oozing all the spare time and money and lashings of pomposity that East Coast journalism takes such pride in, regardless of financial solvency, I would be surprised.

Yet, in keeping with the New York Times approach to such matters, Wells's attitude may be annoying but is probably right.

But the only man who has ever brought out my inner New York Times hack is the Swedish chef Mikael Jonsson.

Then I went back, and gave it 9/10, having confirmed suspicions that it was the best new restaurant in London.

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Fay Maschler reviews Antidote Wine Bar and Restaurant | London ...

ES Food Newsletter It was more or less at the moment when a wily blogger made the link between the pear and Cévennes onion gratin at Antidote and the Michelin-starred restaurant Hedone that the latter’s chef-patron Mikael Jonsson came clean: quietly, he has been hired as consultant to Antidote.

Most serious chefs would subscribe to this stance but Jonsson has made a life’s work of it and that is apparent in the four-course Menu du Marché served at dinner last week in the first-floor restaurant at Antidote.

Long waits between courses — accentuated by all dishes needing to be run up two flights of stairs — give us time to meditate on the temperature and time that the duck egg must have been coddled before being placed in a pool of pea purée, alongside whole peas and sautéed morels with a stripe of red pepper mousse topping the shining dome of yolk.

Such white wine, which has spent time macerating on the grape skins, can taste disconcertingly of wee.

We have done better, I think to myself, with our choice of Gut Oggau 2011 Neusiedlersee “Josephine”, an Austrian red with a brisk clarity and sense of purpose that trots effectively through slip soles, guinea fowl and even chocolate moelleux.

Antidote, London W1 – restaurant review | Life and style | The ...

Everything is shades of pale: waxy potatoes, pearly cod, espuma in a colour that Farrow & Ball would probably call Stornoway Sound, tiny dots of darkest grey.

And the espuma is potato foam, as soothing as fine vichysoisse, as airy as a quip.

I don't normally get so food porny (my word count won't let me), but it's clear we're not in any common-or-garden wine bar.

To backtrack: I've been a fan of this corner site off Carnaby Street since it was La Trouvaille, much-loved by the earliest wave of networking web-foodies, back when meeting anyone off the internet was regarded as the weirdest of all possible behaviours.

So I go back to eat at the bar, and have a bit more of a wallow in a winelist that focuses on the natural and biodynamic (special mention to a luscious trebbiano from Emidio Pepe).

Antidote Wine Bar and Restaurant | Restaurants in Soho, London

This wine bar has been open for years, but early in 2014 it upped its game considerably by hiring a well-regarded chef-consultant, Mikael Jonsson, of Hedone restaurant in Chiswick.

Jonsson’s not manning the tiny kitchen, but he does supply the bread from his restaurant, and offers pointers on the menu.

A blackboard menu lists appealing, but pricey nibbles: good charcuterie and cheeses, scallop ceviche and pork shoulder were among the options.

Hedone restaurant this is not.

But if you change your culinary expectations and come along for a casual and lively wine bar experience, you’ll be very satisfied.