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Bistrotheque

Address:	23-27 Wadeson Street E2 9DR
Tel	020 8983 7900
Website:	Visit Bistrotheque website
Price: £39.00	Wine: £12.00	Champagne: £34.00
Opening Hours:	Mon-Sun 6.30-10.30pm (Fri-Sat -11pm)

Square Meal review of Bistrotheque:

This spacious white-tiled dining room on an unremarkable back street is always buzzy, attracting a trendy crowd from the studios & galleries on nearby Vyner Street. The warehousey ambience reminds one fan of ‘dining in New York’, while another praises it for being ‘equal parts style & substance’. That’s a good description of a recent meal we had here. Although it faltered at the start with a rather bland broad bean, pea & mint salad, & spongy herring roes on toast overpowered by capers, the mains won us over: roast salmon with cucumber & a cherry tomato sauce was fresh & tangy while a well-presented dish of flaked grilled whiting was teamed with crushed peas & asparagus, topped by a crisp cross of salty bacon in horseradish sauce. A sensibly priced, mainly French wine list features interesting bottles such as Picpoul de Pinet & modish Gruner Veltliner from Austria. Brunch is popular at weekends, so too is the £13.50 traditional Sunday roast.