Chabrot Bistrot d'Amis

Le Bistro Francais

Just good French cooking!

Slightly quirky place – long and narrow on both floors, and so all a bit rammed in – I hope they got a good deal on the rent. Staff were lovely and attentive, if a little hazy about menu details. Good menu and wine list. Food was OK – duck liver pate/chopped liver was nice, asparagus fine, and the cote de boeuf for two was well cooked and nicely presented – but not great quality (my fault – broke my rule of only eating steak in steak restaurants) – and sides were disappointing. Reviews note that lip service is paid to desserts, and they were right – unsatisfying chocolate mousse. The bill was OK given the location (although indicated they didn't get a good deal on the rent).

It is rare these days, that a restaurant (how ever cute, or pretty in this case) announces a “philosophy” or “concept” and then delivers just that. However here, you are promised really good french food in a pleasant, but simple setting. As the owner explained, the feast here is “scalable” you can have a simple lunch with house wine that doesn't break the bank but is delicious, or you can seek out the big guns on the menu (the best pan fried fresh fois gras I have eaten (served whole for two people) in England) and the truely great wines from an equally “wide-ranging” wine (and Champagne!!!) list. It brings a little bit of that uncomplicated but very high quality dining which is so common (and great) in Paris to London. Merci. Don't change a thing!

This is a simply fantastic little place. The welcome and service is fantastic, the food superb, and the wine list is very very good and reasonably priced.
I would thoroughly recommend this venue for a superb meal…

True french experience but with a great service!! :)

This is one of the hidden gems of London – utterly superb. Not only is it rare to be able to get proper, honest and wholesome french cuisine; but to have that accompanied by a well thought through, grand, but affordable wine-list is amazing. The service is very welcoming and knowledgeable, if a little over familiar – but if this restaurant was not in London, but in a remote village, people would travel from far and wide to visit.

Tucked away in a small alleyway just off Knightsbridge you’d be unlikely to stumble on this place. Itself a long narrow, and truth be told slightly cramped restaurant.

The service was spot on from the start, a warm welcome from all the waiting staff, drink orders quickly taken and delivered. Then attentive service through out the meal, with reassuring updates ‘I’ll be over in moment to take our order’, ‘your main is about 5 minutes away’, which is nice as you don’t sit there wondering.

The food was also excellent, snails and warm pate were our starters, the buttery herbyness of the snails and the rich deep taste of the pate were both amazing. For main we shared the fois gras stuffed chicken, super succulent roast chicken on a bed of green beans, made all the more delicious and succulent by the portions of fois gras in the pot. We shared a cheese course, three strong French cheeses served with bread. Then a little maxed out food wise I had ice cream to finish, great intense flavours, while my wife went for the chocolate torte, very rich very chocolaty very yum.

The wine list was a good balance between cheap and moderately priced wines, weighted towards French producers as you might expect in a French Bistro.

Our bill came to a bit over £200, but a good half was the drinks bill, so very reasonably priced and very much worth a visit.

Paris outside of Paris !

The choux farcis with cep and foie gras is fabulous ! As well as the chicken with foie gras and pasta with truffle. Very good wine list !

I have visited Chabrot during the first week of opening and I must admit that food was absolutely amazing; the foie gras terrine was one of the best I've ever had before and my chocolate dessert was delightful. I recommend Chabrot for a nice dinner with friends after work as it is perfect to chill out and relax. Will try a table upstairs next time! Decor is warm and lovely imagery is used on the walls.