Readers reviews for Helene Darroze at The Connaught

What an amazing meal. The sumptuous surroundings of the Connaught are the perfect backdrop to a dining experience that is second to none. Helene Darroze and her team produced an experience that my partner and I will remember for a long time to come. After a friendly greeting and welcome glass of bubbles the amuse bouche… More

Oh dear, what a fiasco. For an establishment that wants to be seen as one of fine dining, they fall woefully short. Service is unbelievably mixed – depending on which of the many staff is involved. Some heads need to roll straight away – including the dining room management for not keeping all of their staff up to scratch… More

This was a truly awful experience. Like being in a bad 80s nightmare. The food was tediously dull and nose-bleedingly expensive. There was not one stand-out dish. The best were probably the amuse-bouche, and the cheese. The rest boringly predictable (truffles, foie gras everywhere), but really just not very palatable… More

From a thirst quenching aperitif at the Connaught Bar to a cocktail at the Coburg Bar (which is worth a visit in its own right), I felt that an intoxicating crescendo was being slowly built. The bill had been seamlessly transferred from bar to bar to restaurant, I had been given a full history of Hendricks Gin by an… More

Maybe this review is coloured by the early-March credit-crunch laden atmosphere, but the fact that at lunchtime my host and I were one of only four or so tables being used, did cast a bit of a wierd aura over the place. Having siad that, one of the amuse bouches was -as my younger brother used to put it – “orgasmic” ! It… More