Upper Deck Restaurant & Bar at the Novotel London Excel

Once you are installed in the sociable confines of the dockside Novotel across from the O2 Arena, your three days of back-to-back meetings with sales reps at Excel won’t seem so bad after all. The glass-walled Upper Deck restaurant & terrace is clean, modern, easy-on-the-eye & there’s a bar where you can spread out papers or catch up on CNN. Club sandwiches, steaks, teriyaki salmon noodles & chicken burritos are the kind of international flavours you’ll find on the bar menu, while the restaurant cleaves more closely to a modern European brief. Scallops with ratatouille & basil dressing, lamb rump with dauphinoise & foie gras sauce, & orange brûlée tart are typical choices. The brief wine list offers popular sub-£20 sips as well as ample choice by the glass.