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Other restaurants come and go, but Bibendum continually ranks top with the most discerning and hard-to-please foodie critics in town. Indeed, the 2005 Zagat Survey claimed: “Classic dishes are so delicious they outshine almost all in Paris itself.” And you can’t argue with that. Grilled calves liver with parsley salad and garlic dressing and sauté of rabbit with chorizo, endives, sherry and creme fraiche are two stand-out dishes from the modern French menu. Head chef Matthew Harris is impossibly talented and you won’t eat anywhere better in London. The more lowkey Oyster bar on the ground floor is nice in summer, when you can sit outside this beautiful art deco building.
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As the recent winner of 'Best New Restaurant’ at the 2005 Restaurateurs’ Restaurant of the Year award, The Ledbury has stormed onto the scene and made its mark. This new venture from Nigel Platts-Martin, the man behind Chez Bruce in Wandsworth and The Square in Mayfair, has 26-year-old Australian chef Brett Graham in the kitchen. Graham’s menu (£39.50 for three courses) boasts all manner of modern French finery, from frogs’ legs beignet and snail croustillant to watercress mayonnaise and port purée. The decor is formal and the menu ambitious. Expect a sterling experience.
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The Notting Hill Brasserie has a warm, sophisticated atmosphere, evocative of a chic New York establishment, and serves some of the finest modern French cuisine in London. A piano and double bass play jazz and blues every evening in the cocktail bar. Flattering low lighting compliments the modern African art that adorns the walls. Catch regulars like Sienna Miller, Jude Law and Mick Jagger at this atmospheric restaurant.
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