With more people heading back to the office and wanting to hold meetings over a delicious meal, please allow us to introduce some of London’s best lunchtime offerings for summer 2024.
The Cocochine: Set lunch menu from £50 or pie and salad at £45
One of the most exciting new restaurant openings of the year, The Cocochine, Mayfair, has two new delicious lunch offerings to pick from.
Menus showcase the finest ingredients with a boundless generosity of spirit and the simple joy of eating. At lunch, a house made pie with Rowler Farm salad can be paired with a glass of the sommelier’s selection. Alternatively, a three-course set menu is available with seasonal dishes such as Italian baby tomatoes, melon, Tosi gorgonzola, Japanese dressing and slow cooked Rowler Farm lamb shoulder, peas, dry kombu, pickle onion and lamb jus. Expect hyper-seasonal fruit, vegetables, flowers and livestock, including game and native beef and pigs, fish, shellfish and seaweeds.
Available through Tuesday to Saturday from 12.00 – 14.30 the set lunch menu starts at £50, and the pie and salad menu at £45. Wine pairing is available for both.
Roketsu: Four-course set menu at £85, five-courses £110
Located in New Quebec Street in Marylebone Village, Roketsu is more than just a restaurant, it is a slice of Kyoto transported to London. The space is a completely authentic iteration of the true Kaiseki experience, one of the very few found outside Japan and one of the only in London. An escape for anyone wanting to immerse themselves in genuine Japanese hospitality. The ‘Gozen Lunch’ set menu is a carefully crafted selection that embodies the essence of tradition, each box a work of culinary art, highlighting the finest seasonal ingredients, aromas, and flavours.
The lunch set menu is priced at £85 for four courses and £110 for five courses. Available weekly Thursday to Saturday from midday, with last entry at 1.30pm.
Hélène Darroze at The Connaught: Six-course lunch menu starting at £125
With three Michelin stars, Hélène Darroze at The Connaught is the place to go for fine dining of the highest degree. The lunch service now offers a shorter, six-course tasting menu showcasing iconic and exquisite dishes, such as Isle of Mull lobster, tandoori spices, carrot, citrus, coriander; it is the perfect place to experience a little luxury at lunch.
The set lunch starts at £125 with supplementary courses available.
BiBi: Chef’s selection lunch menu at £75 or a la carte
BiBi is a restaurant that has embraced a history of inherent flavour and taste and built upon it with the creative and technical skill of its erudite chef. Experience dishes filled with nostalgic flavours that transport you through time and India’s megadiverse myriad states over lunchtime’s shorter menu of seven courses from the chef’s selection. Although constantly evolving with the seasons, expect dishes such as Orkney scallop and tomato salad, bharwan ladi pav and Pondicherry chocolate and long pepper.
Open for lunch from Tuesday to Saturday, guests have a choice of a la carte (only available at lunch service) or the chef’s selection lunch menu at £75pp, with alternative menus available for vegetarian and pescatarian.
The Clove Club: Lunch tasting menu at £155
The Clove Club stands as a prestigious two-Michelin-starred restaurant known for its relaxed fine dining atmosphere and seasonal tasting menus that feature modern, technique-driven dishes. Perfect for lunch, the restaurant features short tasting menus celebrating The Clove Club’s quintessentially British cuisine that are available from Thursday to Saturday at £155, with wine pairing at £125. The menu emphasises top-tier ingredients sourced across the UK and the British Isles, enhanced by a thoughtfully curated selection of wines and complemented by house-brewed teas and cocktails.
Ikoyi: Tasting menu starting at £200
Ikoyi is pioneering with its bold use of flavour, creating new ingredient combinations with an indefinable style that has forged a new culinary narrative. Step into elegance and a celebration of the best UK produce with a blind tasting menu, married with the fearless enjoyment of the flavours of the season. Trust that this lunch offering is more of an experience than your standard mid-day refeeding; only available Wednesdays and Thursdays, Ikoyi’s lunch offering is even more elusive.
Starting at £200, this two-Michelin-star meal is a glamorous alternative to the bustling City.
A.Wong: Chinese dim sum dining lunch experience, a la carte
Located where the neighbourhoods of London’s Victoria and Pimlico meet, A.Wong is a minute’s walk from the busy Victoria underground, train and bus stations. The perfect place to escape metropolitan life and experience London’s best Chinese restaurant, including at lunch. A la carte options allow you to build your own traditional Chinese lunch dim sum dining experience. Alternatively, follow the chef’s popular ‘Touch of the Heart’ tasting menu, curated to explore all 14 borders of China with a wine pairing to sweeten this mid-day offering.
Available Wednesday-Saturday from 12.00 – 14.30, come try the only two-Michelin-star Chinese restaurant outside of Asia.
