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Orrery

Address:55 Marylebone High Street W1U 5RB, Marylebone
Tel:020 7616 8000
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Website: Visit Orrery website
Price: £65.00 Wine: £26.00 Champagne: £59.00
Opening Hours:Mon-Sun 12N-2.30pm 6.30-10.30pm

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Despite celebrating its 10th birthday in 2007, Orrery still feels like an ‘event’ restaurant. The impressive setting helps: a converted stable block overlooking the gardens of St Marylebone church & a rooftop bar that’s a great place to precede a meal in summer. If the weather’s not so nice, peruse the menus in the formal, tiny bar across the landing from the long, elegant dining room, which hums with a gentle buzz. The quality of cooking remains exemplary. Ballotine of foie gras with white port jelly was a brick of rich & velvety liver encased in a subtle, soft jelly. Bluefin tuna is served just the right side of pink & well matched to white radishes & a pungent anchovy mayonnaise. Poached & roasted Landes chicken with braised artichokes & baby onions also impressed, though the standout dish was steamed monkfish wrapped in prosciutto with braised oxtail & truffle macaroni: the oxtail adding an element of extra robustness to the solid, meaty monkfish. Service is formal but unstuffy.
Wine List: This fabulous list is sensibly laid out by grape variety & style, offers lots of wines by the glass, plenty of half bottles & is fairly priced to boot. Each section has been thoughtfully compiled but Bordeaux & Rhône varietals stand out, as too the selection of sweet wine.
Best Buy White 2006 Gavi ‘Vigneto Lugarara’, La Giustiniana, Piedmont, Italy, £35.
Best Buy Red 1999 Shiraz/Mataro, Lillian, Pemberton, Western Australia, £39.

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Robert B.
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Robert B. (40s, Male, United Kingdom)

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Its good, of course it is, but so it should be considering the prices. A menu that is full of imagination as well as classic dishes. The service was ok, strong on visual appeal not so strong on the basics of providing a meal quickly and efficiently. Wine list is immense, lots of variety. The room is an odd shape but it works, the atnostphere (dinner) was quite formal, the clientele, the type you expect in that part of town, a well dressed contemporary crowd who all like themselves a bit too much. Good for intimate dining with well dressed friends, bad for relatives young or old whose table manners can't be trusted and who don't scrub up well.

18 September 2008
Overall:6
Food and Drink:8
Service:7
Atmosphere:7
Value for Money:7
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