Readers reviews for Viajante

The first thing worth mentioning is that the place looks pretty good. It is definitely a nice change from some of the other, more stuffy places in Mayfair. More modern, cooler, but still very warm and welcoming. Someone has put some thought into the design and the lighting and – this is a first – there even was music… More

We’ve still got a couple of weeks left of the year, and a few more restaurants to visit! But I would call Viajante my restaurant of the year.

There is no menu per se as they tell you what the food will be, you simply choose 6 or 9 courses (12 by prior request) with a caveat of them asking about dislikes and allergies… More

“Gourmet Sunday lunch in period environs of Bethnal Green”

We had booked just earlier that Sunday morning and were fortunate enough to take advantage of a cancellation, to what has been one of the more recent celebrated “hot bookings” of Central London, Viajante. Nuno Mendez, of ex El Bulli lineage has been talked about… More

Looking at Viajente’s website, I thought that I was going to hate the restaurant. It is full of that pretentious crap that curators insist on putting next to a picture in a gallery. You know, that sort of: “the artist was trying to show, through the subject’s nudity, the essential frailness of life; her fragility, yet… More

My absolute favourite set lunch is the fabulous Viajante. Weekend lunches are a more accessible way to sample Nuno Mendes' culinary skills – instead of the 9 or 12 course tasting menus which are offered in the evening (with the 12 course menu taking a whopping 4.5 hours to munch through!), weekends are a more relaxed… More