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Address:33 St James' Street SW1A 1HD
Tel:020 7839 1007
Website: Visit Brasserie St Jacques website
Price: £48.00 Wine: £19.50 Champagne: £49.50
Opening Hours:Mon-Sat 8am-11pm Sun 9am-10pm

Felix's Guide (40s, Male, United Kingdom)

Member since April 2005

Reviews written: 9 (6 voted helpful)

Restaurants rated: 20 (this year)

Favourited by: 2 members

Overall:5
Food and Drink:5
Service:6
Atmosphere:5
Value for Money:4

This has always been an awkward room for a restaurant – Petrus only just got away with it. Brasserie St Jacques has ripped out the formal features and fittings and replaced them with a rather artifical Parisian brasserie interior – you get the feel that the designer has read the books but never been to Paris. The orange 'effect' makes for a rather sterile atmosphere.

The menu has all the old favourites that you would expect from a brasserie menu (steak chips, Dover sole, steak tartare, creme brulee etc ) and to a large extent delivers OK on quality when the food arrives. But prices reflect the location rather than the quality – it's a posh cafe rouge in a posh part of town. Doesn't have the buzz of Galvin Bistrot de Luxe which, to me, is a great top end brasserie where you want to have a long winter business lunch finishing at about tea time when it has got dark already.

26 September 2008
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