Mon Plaisir

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The Oldest & Most Authentic French Restaurant in London

Take a stroll down Monmouth Street, London and you’ll discover a little piece of England that will remain forever French.

Mon Plaisir, London’s oldest French restaurant, has been a purveyor of the finest French cuisine for over half a century.

The entente cordiale hits you as you enter and the French atmosphere is as thick as the waiters’ French accents.

You’ll find yourself surrounded by wonderfully original French artefacts.

But people don’t go to the restaurant to look at the walls, Mon Plaisir’s menu boasts the best of French food, from traditional to modern, just a browse through the menu will send your saliva glands into overload.

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Marina O'Loughlin ( MON PLAISIR - A DELICIOUS COVENT ...

(It’s like when people inevitably ask me what my favourite restaurant is; my mind becomes as blank as the first page of my alleged novel.)

We’re headed for Monmouth Coffee and Mon Plaisir winks at us.

By today’s restaurant standards, Mon Plaisir just shouldn’t exist.

Coq au vin, ripe with good red wine, comes with a little crouton on top of its Staub casserole (oi, parvenus, Mon Plaisir has been doing the Staub schtick for DECADES) that’s cut into the shape of the restaurant’s trademark cockerel.

Apparently, this is London’s oldest French restaurant, a wartime favourite of General de Gaulle.

Mon Plaisir - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens

Take a stroll down Monmouth Street, London and you’ll discover a little piece of England that will remain forever French.

Mon Plaisir, London’s oldest French restaurant, has been a purveyor of the finest French cuisine for over half a century.

You’ll find yourself surrounded by wonderfully original French artefacts.

Mon Plaisir Style The four rooms have completely different feels, as you enter you find yourself in the original dining room which hasn’t changed in the restaurant’s long history.

But people don’t go to the restaurant to look at the walls, Mon Plaisir’s menu boasts the best of French food, from traditional to modern, just a browse through the menu will send your saliva glands into overload.

Restaurant Review: Mon Plaisir | Travel Gourmet

I was meeting my friend Chris, who lives in north London, for an evening meal and we settled on Covent Garden as a good ‘halfway’ meeting place.

Mon Plaisir is a little bit like a rabbit warren with various rooms branching out through narrow passageways; sometimes you have to duck your head!

Balsamic dressing isn’t really French anyway (balsamic is woefully overused these days and not always appropriate), and I would have preferred a proper French dressing made with wine or cider vinegar.

Chris said her pork terrine was OK, but again, nothing special – and I could see that too had balsamic drizzled over it.

There were 3 main courses on offer: Fish of the Day, Penne with Grilled Vegetables and Pesto, and Blanquette de Volaille – chicken in light cream sauce with pearl barley, which was my choice.

Review of French restaurant Mon Plaisir in Covent Garden

Billed as the oldest French restaurant in London, its dining rooms are bathed in a golden cosy glow and the walls bustling with original French artefacts.

The menu is littered with the kind of French staples you’d expect – onion soup, snails, rabbit, scallops… but plenty of modern dishes too.

Veggie options and French restaurants don’t usually go together so he’ll be delighted about this.

The 2 courses for £22.95 or 3 courses for £24.95 special set menu is definitely a great way to enjoy the food at this restaurant if you’re watching your finances.

Authentic french food and atmosphere, and it felt like we should have been emerging onto the streets of Paris instead of central London.

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Spend too long circling the plughole of the internet looking at the endless promotional drivel for each new venture and you begin to understand how a group of otherwise sensible people might commit to their “Franco-Peruvian, Korean-sauced steamed-bun-sharing plate, family-style, no reservation, Cantina-tavern concept which is reinventing the dining experience by doing away with chairs to turn dinner into a socially ground-breaking promenade performance”.

There is a list by the glass, though the general manager, who is as knowingly French as the menu he serves, does not necessarily abide by it, opening things as he sees fit and offering up a dribble here or there to try.

■ There are many other places, like Racine, offering the full French.

■ Restaurant bill-payment app company Velocity has conducted a survey of British restaurantgoers’ dining experiences and found that on average we spend a month of our lives waiting for the bill to arrive.

■ Congratulations to the undoubtedly lovely Midsummer House in Cambridge, voted the second-best restaurant in the whole wide world by contributors to TripAdvisor.

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Cooking focuses on bistro classics of the coq au vin, pork rillettes and steak- frites variety.

Good news continued with a light yet intensely flavoured dish of seared scallops and steamed clams accompanied by reduced stock, cream and cooking juices from the clams.

Desserts weren’t in the same league – a chocolate profiterole filled with fresh mint ice-cream was overshadowed by an avalanche of stodgy chocolate sauce.

Equally dispiriting, dark and milk chocolate mousse, served in a glass, was fridge-cold and leaden in texture.