Haute London Restaurants
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- agentfour
Anyone know an luxurious restaurants round london worth checking out. about £70 per person. Ive looked at gordon ramsay's restaurants but i cant be bothered booking 2 months in advance. Anyone know of anything real nice along these lines?
- clerk0
btw i think it's fairly easy to get a reservation for ramsay's claridge restaurant.
- agentfour0
nice.
they said 2 months in advance unless i want to eat dinner at 10pm......which i kinda dont
- kezza_20
not at the weekend....
my 3 recommendations would be:
http://www.rivercafe.co.uk/ (the best food I've ever had in London, nice romantic setting by the river too...
or
http://www.london-eating.co.uk/4…
or a bit left field, but I've wanted to go here ever since that great british meny programme on the BBC...
- kezza_20
look at the menu :)
I've been to petrus, the food was excellent, but any place that makes me where a jacket pisses me off...
full of stockbrokers and prats.
- Triss0
I went to the Babylon Gardens a couple of weeks ago, not exactly expensive but still pretty lush!
- paraselene0
fergus henderson is a genius if you're not afraid...
- kezza_20
agreed... bit of bone marrow never did anyone any harm...
- paraselene0
that place has a really nice...
*insert wanky word of choice
qui
feng shui
vibe
ambience
wotevaeg: it's a pleasant place to sit and have a meal
- DaveO0
I was going to write St Johns.....always good in teh Spitalfields one but I've never been to the Clerkenwell one. along the lines of meat and pig bits there's Comptoir Gascon, near Fabric...
http://www.london-eating.co.uk/5…
Fuck all like claridges but food to die for and solid french service.
Charlotte Street Hotel is nice for that kind of thing and the Sanderson too, but I never really eat in places that are smart. My boss went to Maze teh otehr week and said that was great - you do a taster menu and have loads of different bits and pieces, about 40 quid per head.
A place with a nice communal vibe and good surroundings is the Islington Ottolenghi (www.ottolenghi.co.uk) – and the food's fucking good.
There, I've probably just listed loads of irrelevant places, but places to check out nontheless!
- paraselene0
the clerkenwell one's a bit swankier, daveo. the spitalfields one was opened primarily as a bread and wine off sales front. the back of house team there is excellent, of course, but the flagship front is just a little more well-heeled.
moro used to be amazing, but i get the feeling it might have gone downhill. don't know why i get that feeling... no real reason for it.
i really dig the zetter for a minimalist pseudo-tuscan vibe, and the interiors are gorgeous.
apart from that, however, i have no clue because i most certainly cannot afford to eat at any of these places but once a year...
- agentfour0
thanks for all these.
ive walked past that sketch place a few times and it always intrigues me.
- DaveO0
I've never been to Sketch but a couple of my friends DJ there, Greg Sonata and Boris Horel....they say it's cool but really touristy – loads of albanian business men scaring the girls.
Nah, You can't say swaky without saying wank. I'd rather pay good money for good food in a place that's got some heart rather than worry if I was underdressed. And I always spill shit down me anyway
- agentfour0
its mostly for the missus..... and you know girls like to dress up!! but i agree on the swanky comment. Im not expecting anything less than majoritively pretentions wankers. but i dont care really....they can fuck off while i drink free cocktails!
- Triss0
Tropicarno!
- ad10
Galvin at Windows is a new and a good new haute bet. good reviews. 28 floors up.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/art…
or come to our new gaff:
www.bedford-strand.comhttp://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife…
we're not haute but we are good!
- clerk0
yeah, the new hilton looks good, nice review by aa gill: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/art…
- ad10
clerk - if you liked that review by gill - read this - ouch is not the word...
- clerk0
hehe harsh, not even bog standard...
- Rickbass0
Went to Ramsay's Boxwood Cafe at the weekend - was very good and the service was impeccable. Would definitely come in below that budget of yours too.
I'm also a big fan of Andrew Edmunds in Soho - it's more intimate if you're on a date thing, but the food and service is really great too.