“Just the kind of place where a girl hopes to be proposed to!” – this “unashamedly old-fashioned” Pimlico den is a “higgledy piggledy” sprawl, with “dark, candlelit corners” and “colourful”, if somewhat “arrogant”, staff, who offer “rustic” Gallic scoff in “large portions”.
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One place you needn’t call however (they booked up pretty much immediately when the list for the 14th opened a month ago) is Pimlico’s Poule au Pot – famously London’s Most Romantic Restaura...
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Press Reviews (2)
Matthew Norman (21st December 2009)
The critic admits he was looking for somehwere “Christmassy and romantic”, to review, and happens upon the “most venerable and consistent of Belgravia bistros”, which turns out to be “as thriving as ever it was since opening in 1962”, and still serving “big helpings of plainly delicious food”.
Michael Winner (13th August 2007)
The appearance of this Pimlico classic (est. 1962, he says) suggests that the decorator “went mad”. “There are hanging baskets with wheat, dried flowers and grapes coming from them. The only things missing were human heads from the tumbrel”. The food is rather up-and-down, but it ends with a tarte Tatin which is “not unpleasant”.
Matthew Norman (21st December 2009)
Michael Winner (13th August 2007)
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