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Summary

£91
 ££££
3
Good
3
Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Whether for a cocktail or caviar at the bar or sequestered in one of the red leather booths”, this 10-year-old venue in Fortnum & Mason’s (with its own street entrance) “is made for romance” (“I can’t imagine anyone not being seduced by a shared plate of lobster spaghetti, flambéed dramatically tableside”); and also has fans for business entertaining thanks to “staff who can’t do enough for you”. For many reporters, though, its top feature is the “brilliant breakfast” – “there’s a reason this place is always busy in the mornings”. (The food rating has recovered after a “terrible dive in 2023”, with “the kitchen much improved from January 2024”).

Summary

£85
 ££££
2
Average
3
Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

With its many booths, Fortnum & Mason’s “comfortable” bar/restaurant (with its own, independent street entrance) provides a “discreet” and “decently located” venue that’s ideal for a St James’s light bite, meal, tea, coffee or cocktail; and is most often tipped as a handy option for a business get-together. Since its very promising launch in 2015, its ratings have waned, with its cooking increasingly judged “reliable but not spectacular”. Top Menu Tip – “breakfast is always a pleasure; go for the Welsh rarebit”.

Summary

£80
 ££££
2
Average
3
Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

Fortnum & Mason’s “luxurious” and “cosseting” restaurant (with its own street entrance) makes “a top central destination at any time! – for breakfast, coffee, lunch, tea, dinner or for drinks” (as the bar does “superb cocktails”). “With its many booths, alcoves and corners, it’s the ideal place to meet someone” (particularly on business), and “discreet staff will ensure your liaison goes swimmingly”. Less kind reports feel “there’s nothing to distinguish the inoffensive upmarket international food”, but harsher critiques are absent. Top Menu Tip – “Be sure to try the caviar – served from a trolley”. And, for breakfast, this is “an excellent alternative to the nearby Wolseley as it’s much less frenetic” and available “with rare-breed eggs, caviar, winter or white truffles in season”.

Summary

£80
 ££££
3
Good
3
Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

The modern update of Fortnums’ old Edwardian buttery has become a “go-to eatery in the West End”, “much-loved and much-used”. “This place is fab and works on many different levels, depending on the occasion you’re eating out for” – equally suitable for “a great breakfast (including the healthier stuff)” as for business entertaining, when “you come away pleasantly lighter of wallet, but at least your clients won’t think you’ve gone all hedge-fund on them”.

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45 Jermyn Street, London, SW1Y 6DN

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Reviews of 45 Jermyn St Restaurant in SW1Y, London by users of Hardens.com. Also see the editors review of 45 Jermyn St restaurant.
Tim Y
Attractive and welcoming brasserie with exc...
Reviewed 3 months, 1 day ago

"Attractive and welcoming brasserie with excellent service. The Beef Wellington for two seems to be the standout dish and it lives up to its billing. "

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What the Newspaper Critics are saying

The Times

Giles Coren generously offered a portmanteau of London restaurants for lunching – one at speed, one more leisurely, and one for feeling “posh”.

45 Jermyn St, part of Fortnum & Mason (where it replaced the old Fountain restaurant 10 years ago), is “somewhere for grown-ups, somewhere a bit posh, somewhere Bertie Wooster could take his Aunt Dahlia”. It’s all “shimmering parquet, red leather upholstery, assorted caviars and incredibly confident young waiters in black and white uniforms“ – and the dishes are “brilliantly done”.

Giles Coren - 2025-05-04

Prices

Traditional European menu

Starter Main Pudding
£16.90 £35.60 £12.50
Drinks  
Wine per bottle £36.00
Filter Coffee £5.00
Extras  
Bread £0.00
Service 12.50%
45 Jermyn Street, London, SW1Y 6DN
Opening hours
Monday7:30 am‑4:45 pm, 5 pm‑11 pm
Tuesday7:30 am‑4:45 pm, 5 pm‑11 pm
Wednesday7:30 am‑4:45 pm, 5 pm‑11 pm
Thursday7:30 am‑4:45 pm, 5 pm‑11 pm
Friday7:30 am‑4:45 pm, 5 pm‑11 pm
Saturday8 am‑4:45 pm, 5 pm‑11 pm
Sunday8 am‑6 pm

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