Wiltons

Address:	55 Jermyn Street SW1Y 6LX
Tel	020 7629 9955
Email:	wiltons@wiltons.co.uk
Website:	Visit Wiltons website
Price: £75.00	Wine: £32.00	Champagne: £60.00
Opening Hours:	Mon-Fri 12N-2.30pm 6-10.30pm

Square Meal review of Wiltons:

Jacket-required Wiltons is a bastion of British gastronomy that was trumpeting the virtues of native produce long before it became fashionable, having started life as an oyster barrow in 1742. A favourite of politicians & St James’s gents, it closes at the weekend, as ‘most of our guests are in the country’. The menu’s backbone is fish, kicking off with starters such as Scottish lobster cocktail, smoked eel & potted shrimps complemented by in-season West Mersea native oysters, served with a chilli vinegar that knocks spots off Tabasco. Mains of simply cooked turbot, sole, plaice & halibut are set off with the freshest of hollandaise sauces, or there are the regal likes of baked Dover sole Silver Jubilee: tender fish, mushroom pate & crisp, golden pastry. With resolutely traditional desserts such as sherry trifle & a classic French wine list rounding things off, Wiltons is as cosseting – & reassuringly expensive – as a well-tuned Rolls.

Wine List: As befits a restaurant institution Wiltons has a serious list full of classic European wines. Provided budget is not an issue you can drink really well from a fine collection of Burgundy & Bordeaux. There is also a reasonable collection by the glass. However, while you don’t expect bargains in this part of town, margins are extremely high. Best Buy White 2005 St Bris Sauvignon Blanc, Domaine Goisot, Burgundy, France, £31. Best Buy Red 2004 Vincent Dureuil-Janthial Bourgogne Rouge, Burgundy, France £38.

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