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The Lady Ottoline | London | Restaurant Review | The Arbuturian
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So… I find myself in Bloomsbury’s premier residential street (property prices top out somewhere between £3.75m and £5m) heading towards The Lady Ottoline, a recently restored Victorian pub on the corner.
The walls are covered with pictures of the actual Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938) looking interesting on a beach, on an elephant in India, in a hat made from white feathers, wistful in Venice… She married in 1902.
We chat about Zurich, the deal he has just closed, and the reason he likes The Lady Ottoline: Swiss clean and German efficient; financing for the world’s largest processor of halite, comfortable good food in an informal, relaxed atmosphere.
The Lady Ottoline serves easy-going gastropub food in robust portions.
I tilt my head coquettishly, much like the picture of Lady O that I can see behind Mr. E’s head.
The Lady Ottoline - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens
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Hidden-away in Bloomsbury, a gastropub venture from the people behind the well-regarded Princess of Shoreditch; it's a potentially charming operation, but the first-floor dining room can get very noisy, and we found the food rather lacklustre.
As a sibling to the Princess of Shoreditch - one of the better-received gastroboozers of recent time - its foodie credentials are pretty enticing too.
Progressing to the first-floor dining room at the peak of the dinner service, however, the din was such as to overwhelm any other impression; it certainly made it difficult to see how the place could be regarded as the romantic destination as which it would otherwise seem to have potential.
Nothing was horribly wrong, but nothing - except perhaps the very pleasant service - really hit any sort of target.
A princess deserves a sibling grander than this, Lady or not.
Dickie Fitz, restaurant review: Fitzrovia's latest addition breathes ...
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Dickie Fitz is the fourth and most recent London eating house from the Affinity Group, a glumly named but consistently impressive gang of restaurateurs with a fondness for the periphery of literary culture.
A pedant might argue that the main flavour of the Pacific is salty, and the main ingredients fish, whales and plastic bags, but the Dickie Fitz breathes sophistication.
From a smorgasbord of 13 small plates and starters, we chose Chicken Poppers: five cubes cut from chicken thighs, fried very fast and served with a house dip of sesame oil, soy, chilli and garlic – utterly delicious hot lollipops.
Next time, I'll try every one of this baker's dozen of small Pacific Rim treats – I long to explore Oysters Kilpatrick, and the salt-baked Kamura (New Zealand sweet potato) with blue cheese – but duty called us to the main courses, mostly Robata-grill fare: rib-eye steak, lamb chops, rib burger.
It has an airy, confident feel, and if Mr Robinson's main courses lacked outstanding features, the starters and finishers made up for it.
Restaurant Review: The Lady Ottoline | The Soulmates Blog
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Everything at The Lady Ottoline, a gastropub in Holborn, has a timeless-classic quality to it, from the food to the decor and even the service.
If you’re after something casual, you might want to stay downstairs in the pub, but for a more civilised meal head upstairs to the dining rooms, where your date will take place in a more secluded, homely environment.
For the main event we tucked into the chicken, leek and mushroom pie, and ox cheek with a side of the most satisfying hand-cut chips I’ve ever tried; I only wish I’d had enough room left to eat more of them!
Headed up by chef Greg Martin, The Lady Ottoline is all about elegant yet hearty English food and classic interior design.
I heartily approve the Lady Ottoline for first dates, fifth dates, twentieth dates and everything in between.
The Lady Ottoline - review | London Evening Standard
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ES Food Newsletter What Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938) would think of a gastropub invoking her name located a rather tactlessly long way from where she lived in Bedford Square is probably something to which only Aldous Huxley could have done justice.
A first course of orange-cured duck breast - orange is a favoured flavouring - arrived as tiny little pieces of meat occupying only a small area on one side of the plate.
After these inappropriate examples of mimsiness - Lady Ottoline was a strapping lass - roasted rump of Blackface lamb with root vegetable purée, candied figs, pancetta and juniper jus for £19.50 (side orders extra) was a substantial affair, the meat alluringly pink, tender and flavourful.
Kilravock Farm pork belly, braised cheek, black pudding croquette, carrot and anis purée, crackling and cider jus at £15.95 was enthusiastically received by Jonathan Meades, who had joined us mid-meal, but he lamented the lack of enough gravy or, as the menu puts it, jus.
The Lady Ottoline 11a Northington Street, WC1
Lady Ottoline | Bars and pubs in Holborn, London
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Note: As of January 2015, The Lady Ottoline has been taken over by the Affinity Bars and Restaurants group, which also owns Newman Street Tavern, The Princess Victoria and The Henry Root.
The Time Out Eating and Drinking Team This upmarket gastropub is part of the small Noble Inns stable that includes the Princess of Shoreditch and the Pig & Butcher in Islington.
Food is served in the ground-floor bar at the Lady Ottoline, but for a more sedate meal, it’s best to dine in the pleasant first-floor room.
The menu is a bit more adventurous than most gastropubs – witness a starter of braised lamb’s tongue, sweetbreads and sheep curd – and ingredients are carefully sourced.
The latest addition to the group is barbecue specialist the Smokehouse, also in Islington.