Fifth Floor at Harvey Nichols

The fifth floor always has a great atmosphere I like to sit by the window and look out over Knightsbridge The food always looks amazing and taste fantastic.

Fifth Floor is bright, airy, buzzy and serves good food. I've been for lunches & each times it is utterly reliable to be a great lunch out. Perfect for a quick lunch during the week, it offers a great selection of classics.

Love the refurb- gorgeous, feels like a central eatery, brasserie/NYC feel, but with a London flair.

Excellent choice for shoppers needing a recharge.

As far as department store restaurants go, this is probably as good as it gets. We opted for the set market dinner menu which at £24.50 for 3 courses including half a bottle of wine felt like really good value. There wasn't a huge amount of choice but the food was well prepared and the service was polite and friendly. The restaurant is comfortably stylish but it's hard to escape the feeling that one is still in a department store. But then it is Harvey Nichols and that really isn't anything to complain about.

The place to go for well heeled shoppers, ladies who lunch, business meetings – in other words the Fifth Floor is an all rounder. Having been to the restaurant for lunch a few times now, both menu choice and service have left me feeling hopeful about the future of dining in department store restaurants. As its Harvey Nics, I knew better than to expect the usual stodgy microwaved ‘meals’ but quite how fresh the ingredients are and the seasonal nature of the menu's still amazes me. Fifth Floor serves up a market menu of seasonal goodies and a more rounded a la carte menu with innovative and flavour-balanced dishes such as gunard with caramelised onions and mushroom jus and a well cooked seabass with buttered leeks and asparagus. The wine list is extensive and serves up some refreshing new world wines as well as the old classics. Service is impeccable even when the going gets tough – and believe me the lunchtime rush can get pretty busy. For those that complain about the lack of complimentary bread available these a days – you want to head here – they can't get rid of the stuff and I had about three offers for a bread top up and its not ordinary bread – there's raisin, olive, rosemary… All in all a pleasant experience in nicely designed surroundings.

I don't know why I expected less of Harvey Nick's restaurant, but it does the job very well. Service is polished and attentive, but not at all snooty as you'd expect from the ponciest department store around dahling. Their Sunday lunch has to be one of the best deals around – £19.50 for two courses (with loads of choice) plus a Bellini or Bloody Mary. A starter of baby artichokes with aioli and manchego was an unusual but appetite-whetting start to a meal. My husband's roast ribeye of beef with humoungous Yorkshire pud and exemplary vegetables was an elegant version of trad sunday lunch, while my rack of lamb with lentils was perfect. Portions are on the small side to it's a good idea to pay the extra £5 for 3 courses, although the puds dont match up to the quality of the other courses, and all seem pretty juvenile (e.g. waffles with ice cream & bananas). The all white decor is showing its age, especially the white leather chairs which are getting scruffy. Better at night when the weird (but cool) lighting disguises the wear & tear.

Great for a wander round the food hall afterwards.