Harden's survey result
Summary
“Safe food and lovely decor” help maintain fans for this “beautifully decorated” and “quintessentially French” brasserie – part of the Wolseley Group, and – according to such supporters – “everything you could want from a neighbourhood restaurant”. However, even those who say it’s “one of the only decent options for a meal in St John’s Wood”, can feel that “it’s really gone downhill since the departure of the Corbin & King founders”; and a slip in ratings can be ascribed to “inconsistent” standards here this year. Top Tip – popular for breakfast.
Summary
“Oh là là – looking 100 years old and dripping with charm” this “slick and relaxing” brasserie in St John’s Wood is proving “another instant Corbin & King classic”: “the décor is delightful and service is warm and graceful under pressure”. True to the form, the “food could be more ambitious”, but “for a family meal this lovely place is hard to beat”. (With the founders recently sacked, “will the new regime ruin everything?”).
Summary
“A great addition to St John’s Wood” – Corbin & King’s “easygoing” (if “noisy”) brasserie is already something of an “instant classic”, thanks not least to its “romantic interior, which – even though it’s brand new – looks as if it hasn’t changed in a hundred years”. “The food is never really the main thing at C&K places: you go for the whole package”, and that’s true here too – the “simple” classic French fare, though “OK” is often “uninspiring”. To fans, though, “it’s less a meal, more a warm Gallic embrace!”
Summary
“It’s early days, but all the signs are good for Corbin & King’s new venture” in St John’s Wood (on the site of a defunct branch of Carluccio’s) – “a big hit in an area where, surprisingly, there are few really good places to eat” (and “streets-ahead of the nearby Ivy Café”). The faux-French styling is laid on with a bit of a trowel, but the end-result is enveloping and very “stylish”; while the mostly-French brasserie fare steers the typical C&K line between being very acceptable and merely acceptable. “Terrible acoustics” is an issue raised in some feedback (“excessively noisy for the elderly St John’s Wood clientele”, according to one septuagenarian reporter).
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60 St John’s Wood High Street, London, NW8 7SH
Restaurant details
Soutine Restaurant Diner Reviews
"excellent"
"Very good service and lots of fun"
"Tight menu of French stalwarts delivered without faff and with faultless precision. Hard not to like. Salad nicoise, veal escalope."
Prices
| Availability | 2 courses | 3 courses |  |
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| Always | £27.50 | £31.50 |  |
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Traditional European menu
| Starter | Main | Pudding |
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| £18.40 | £33.30 | £9.50 |
| Drinks |
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| Wine per bottle | £31.50 |
| Filter Coffee | £0.00 |
| Extras |
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| Bread | £0.00 |
| Service | 12.50% |
60 St John’s Wood High Street, London, NW8 7SH
Opening hours
| Monday | 9 am‑10 pm |
| Tuesday | 9 am‑10 pm |
| Wednesday | 9 am‑10 pm |
| Thursday | 9 am‑10 pm |
| Friday | 9 am‑10 pm |
| Saturday | 9 am‑10 pm |
| Sunday | 9 am‑9 pm |
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