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Nose-to-tail dining comes to the West End.

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Summary

£71
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4
Very Good
4
Very Good
2
Average
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Spot-on sea bream and lemon posset…”; “no bone marrow, but very good deep-fried rarebit, crispy pig cheek and the legendary Eccles cake and Lancashire cheese…” – this rare expansion from Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver is still improving in its second year in Marylebone, offering a daily changing menu of the “simple and excellent” nose-to-tail dishes using “highly seasonal ingredients, perfectly cooked” that have won its stablemates such renown. It shares their low-comfort, utilitarian design, which at its best seems “charming if slightly quirky”.

Summary

£67
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4
Very Good
3
Good
2
Average
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

Nose-to-tail dining returns to the West End, with Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver’s first opening in seven years (their Leicester Square project, St John’s Hotel, closed in 2013). It’s on a two-floor Marylebone site with a short menu of trademark punchy British dishes and baked items (for example: deep-fried rarebit, ox heart, Eccles cake and cheese). Ratings are high for the food, but also support the view that – as yet – it’s “not as good as in Smithfield” or Spitalfields. More problematic is the interior, which echoes the stark utilitarian approach of its siblings: here it can seem merely “cold” or “dreary” (“like the 1960s!”).

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98 Marylebone Lane, London, W1U 2JE

St John Marylebone Restaurant Diner Reviews

Reviews of St John Marylebone Restaurant in W1U, London by users of Hardens.com. Also see the editors review of St John Marylebone restaurant.
Janet R
Having said the jury were still out last ye...
Reviewed 2 months, 7 days ago

"Having said the jury were still out last year, sadly this outpost of St John has slid right to the bottom of our recent dining experience. The Marylebone venue has never matched the Smithfield original. starters of pork rillettes expensive, not very exciting but at least edible. Main course of ewe with turnips was also expensive (34 each) and inedible. Grisle was the dominant ingredient, the turnips were mush, and the whole plate was swimming in liquid fat. Give it a miss. "

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George S
Based on limited experience of sea bream an...
Reviewed 8 months, 20 days ago

"Based on limited experience of sea bream and lemon posset the cooking is spot on. Bland house white could do be more characterful."

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Jonathan M
Lovely lunch. ...
Reviewed 9 months,

"Lovely lunch. "

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Gillian B
We went for lunch - the food was interestin...
Reviewed 10 months, 2 days ago

"We went for lunch - the food was interesting and tasty "

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Prices

Traditional European menu

Starter Main Pudding
£9.80 £24.40 £6.00
Drinks  
Wine per bottle £36.00
Filter Coffee £0.00
Extras  
Bread £5.00
Service 12.50%
98 Marylebone Lane, London, W1U 2JE
Opening hours
Monday9 am‑2:45 pm, 6 pm‑9:45 pm
Tuesday9 am‑2:45 pm, 6 pm‑9:45 pm
Wednesday9 am‑2:45 pm, 6 pm‑9:45 pm
Thursday9 am‑2:45 pm, 6 pm‑9:45 pm
Friday9 am‑2:45 pm, 6 pm‑9:45 pm
Saturday9 am‑2:45 pm, 6 pm‑9:45 pm
Sunday9 am‑2:45 pm, 6 pm‑9:45 pm

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