Caroline's review of The Zetter Restaurant & Rooms at The Zetter Hotel

Lunch at the Zetter is always enjoyable – partly because of the food, which is reliably good, partly due to the friendly service, and partly because it feels a bit like dining inside a bright Picasso painting, with the quirky, abstract designs that are etched on the restaurant walls and the daylight that floods in through its huge windows.

The menu used to be Italian-focused when the restaurant first-opened, but these days it has more of a general Mediterranean feel. I had one of my favourite dishes to start, the garlic roasted prawns with pork belly and chorizo, which seems to be a signature of the house as it’s often on the menu (I’m pleased to say!). Packed with flavour, the sausage and pork work together with the freshness of the prawns, making a sweet yet salty and deliciously intense dish. For main I had the lamb chops with Imam Biyaldi. The chops were a bit on the hefty side for me (which is probably a personal thing as I saw a table of businessmen devouring them down to the bone across the room), but they were really tasty and worked with the fragrant Middle Eastern flavours of the Biyaldi. My friend had the crab salad, which she described as “summer on a plate” and the black bream, which was served simply to let the delicate flavour of the fish come through. We drank a nice, fresh A Mano Rosato.

With only a little room left for dessert, I went for the rhubarb sorbet, which was subtle and light, but with a pure hit of rhubarb. My friend, who is fond of sweet things, went for the rich and creamy dulce de leche crème brulee, which she refused to share! So I can only conclude that she liked it. A lot.