Great Queen Street

Great Queen Street Restaurant serves modern British food in London's theatreland.

Great Queen Street Restaurant | 32 Great Queen Street London WC2B 5AA t: 020 7242 0622

http://www.greatqueenstreetrestaurant.co.uk

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Barely six months old, Margot is a ready-made classic.

Margot's slice of the good life: This grand new Covent Garden Italian flirts with greatness... and nearly achieves it.

A modern Italian restaurant on Great Queen Street, London - Strada

We were welcomed by a juicy plate of green olives from Sicily which had a buttery sweet taste and were a great start to the meal.

The Schiacciatella was crunchy and the garlic oil was perfect with the mixed antipasti.

, Strozzapreti Pugliese (al dente although fairly spicy, possibly too much for my taste), Quattro Stagioni pizza (perfectly crunchy, melting mozzarella and tasty toppings), Orata al Forno (well-presented, albeit slightly undercooked) and penne with vegetables and buffalo mozzarella (lovely sauce, delicious mozzarella but slightly overcooked pasta for my taste; I am a quite fussy pasta eater, being brought up in Italy…!)

The desserts were the perfect ending to a delicious meal: the affogato was simply divine.

It was a delight to come and taste these delicious meals from Strada!

Restaurant review: Great Queen Street, London - Telegraph

Then there was that weird story about a murderer feeding a dead body to a pig that ate everything, right down to the less savoury organs and unpalatable opinions.

Take a dish at Great Queen Street, a no-nonsense, manly restaurant in London's Covent Garden that specialises in great chunks of nose to tail meat.

If you can stand the kind of noisy stampede normally confined to the departures hall of a Mexican airport, it is one of the best places to eat pork (or, as they call it in Middle Eastern hotels, "beef").

My friend orders muscat caramel cream to share which sounds bland but is stringent and rather boozy, appropriate for a place with a pub bar and a menu offering both Burnley bitter and peach prosecco.

Shabby walls, cheap pine and a thundering noise with food that doesn't quite realise it's dead yet: Great Queen Street is probably not the place to take a catwalk lovely who thinks dinner is two lines of white powder, Evian and a celery stick.

Great Queen Street restaurant review 2011 May London | British ...

The intentionally simple British dishes are priced at £5.80 to £8 for starters, £12 to £14.80 for main courses with vegetables extra at £3.80 and £4 to £6 for desserts.

Bread was from St John Bread and Wine, and was good quality sourdough (15/20).

With such simple food there is nowhere to hide if things go wrong, but it is clear that ingredients are generally good here.

The bill for two with some wine was £62 a head for lunch, and for me this was the main issue.

In the evening these prices would not seem too bad, and the wine list has fair mark-ups, but it is hard to see this as a bargain for lunch.

Restaurant review: Great Queen Street, London - Telegraph

Then there was that weird story about a murderer feeding a dead body to a pig that ate everything, right down to the less savoury organs and unpalatable opinions.

Take a dish at Great Queen Street, a no-nonsense, manly restaurant in London's Covent Garden that specialises in great chunks of nose to tail meat.

If you can stand the kind of noisy stampede normally confined to the departures hall of a Mexican airport, it is one of the best places to eat pork (or, as they call it in Middle Eastern hotels, "beef").

My friend orders muscat caramel cream to share which sounds bland but is stringent and rather boozy, appropriate for a place with a pub bar and a menu offering both Burnley bitter and peach prosecco.

Shabby walls, cheap pine and a thundering noise with food that doesn't quite realise it's dead yet: Great Queen Street is probably not the place to take a catwalk lovely who thinks dinner is two lines of white powder, Evian and a celery stick.

Jay Rayner reviews Great Queen Street, London WC2 | Life and ...

Jay Rayner is sure Great Queen Street will find its feet Great Queen Street 32 Great Queen Street, London WC2 Tel: 020 7242 0622 Meal for two including wine and service: £80 Most evenings, standing outside the Indian restaurants that line Great Queen Street in London's Covent Garden, you will see smartly dressed men watching the pedestrians pass by.

Recently a new restaurant opened on Great Queen Street which is the polar opposite of its neighbours.

So here's what you need to know: Great Queen Street is at 32 Great Queen Street.

Great Queen Street is the offspring of the Anchor & Hope, a gutsy gastropub down in Waterloo which does lots of hearty things with slow-roasted meats and offally bits, and the menu here is similarly minded.

And I'm always going to be well disposed to a menu that lists things like new season's garlic soup, bacon with green sauce, and, most enticingly, a seven-hour roasted shoulder of Hereford lamb 'for five-ish', priced at £62.50.

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At Margot they can offer you a special of tagliatelle with white truffles for £55 and not even raise their eyebrows while doing so.

The man supplying the cooking is Maurizio Morelli, whose pasta dishes I fell in love with at Latium, and whose pasta dishes I’ve now fallen in love with all over again.

A side dish of garlic and rosemary roast potatoes is just a crashing, puritanical bore.

At Padella by London’s Borough Market you get brilliant handmade pasta dishes from the team behind Trullo in Highbury, but you’ll have to queue for it and it’s counter seating.

Then again, the most expensive pasta dish is £9 which could be for tagliatelle with smoked eel and Amalfi lemon.

Great Queen Street | Restaurants in Covent Garden, London

A product of the noughties gastropub boom, Great Queen Street still turns out dishes in the tradition of its antecedents, and of the year it was founded (2007).

The menu changes daily, is produce-led and is predominantly British.

Vegetarian dishes are sometimes less imaginative, such as a simple tart of roast pepper, tomato and new-season garlic.

Puddings might include a semifreddo, or an apricot and almond tart.

The dozen or so wines by the glass are relatively affordable rather than covetable, a clue to Great Queen Street’s priorities.