Rib Room at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower

If you’re in the business of attracting foreign diners, one reliable stroke is to ramp up your Britishness. This is exactly what the Rib Room, the plush luxury restaurant on the ground floor of the Carlton Jumeirah, has done. The hotel itself is a home-from-home for visitors from the USA & the Gulf states, but the restaurant comes across as a ‘fairest isle’ of British tranquillity. Staff speak in soothing tones, a pianist tinkles away in the background, & the menu is focused on native produce: from a Ben Nevis-sized mound of Loch Duart salmon tartare mixed to your taste at the table to Buccleuch beef in the form of steaks & roasts. While prices are steep, portions are immense & the quality high. You wouldn’t want to visit the Rib Room every day, but it serves its purpose & ticks all those ‘very British’ boxes.