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1 Lombard Street Restaurant

Address:	1 Lombard Street EC3V 9AA
Tel	0870 780 8147
Email:	reception@1lombardstreet.com
Website:	Visit their website
Price: £72.00	Wine: £22.50	Champagne: £36.50
Opening Hours:	Mon-Fri 12N-2.30pm 6-10pm

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Square Meal review of 1 Lombard Street Restaurant:

Hushed & comfortable (some say ‘solemn’), the restaurant is more than just a civilised alternative to the brasher brasserie. Food is certainly sumptuous: roast scallops with accompanying circles of Hungarian paprika veloute & cauliflower purée; or there’s Cornish crab with caramelised lobster, brown crab meat velouté, roast red pepper & tomato coulis with basil purée & a superb bloody Mary sorbet, presented as a trio of hot, cold & frozen miniatures on glass. Tender Barbary duck breast with a delicious confit farcie was teamed with toffee-sweet hickory-smoked foie gras & sweet leeks & glazed pear to cut the richness. Sometimes there’s just too much going on: monkfish in serrano ham with smoked eel & baby leeks was combined with rouille & pea purée, a sticky parsley & garlic reduction & robust red wine risotto; similarly, caramelised fig tart & blackberry sorbet were excellent but the various things that came with it made it too fussy. Service is discreet but personable.

Chef: Herbert Berger

Austrian chef Herbert Berger is executive head chef at 1 Lombard Street, where he serves Michelin-starred food alongside his head chef Tim Richardson. Having moved to London in the 1970s, his formative years were spent at Claridge’s, The Connaught, Mirabelle & the Café Royal before he opened his own restaurant, Keats, in the early 1990s. For nearly a decade, however, Berger has been heading up the kitchens at 1 Lombard Street in the City, where he looks after the fine-dining restaurant & a brasserie based on modern European classics. In the main restaurant, dishes include feuillete of smoked Finnan haddock with quails’ eggs, roast rack of lamb with truffled potatoes & bitter Ecuador chocolate pyramid with almond milk granita.