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Canteen

British Restaurant in Marylebone
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Address
55 Baker Street
Marylebone
London
W1U 8EW
Map
Current
Cuisine
British
Region
Marylebone
Nearest Station
Baker Street
0.29 miles

Canteen, winner of the Good Food Guide 2008 ‘Best London Restaurant’ and Observer Food Monthly ‘Best UK Restaurant’ 2008 serves high quality British cuisine at reasonable prices and gives customers ultimate flexibility with an all day menu. Visit for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or afternoon tea.

All In London Review

A sleek working lunch

Canteen may not be the sexiest name for a restaurant - what’s enticing about school dinners or soggy baps from the snack shop downstairs? In this case I’ll concede it’s pretty clever, given that there’s nothing perfunctory about the food on offer. The menu may be tailored to breakfasts, business lunches and early dinners, but it’s hearty and typically British: think Shepherd’s pie and smoked haddock, interspersed with vintage dishes like devilled kidneys and good old fish finger sandwiches.

Most importantly, it’s good. A beetroot and fennel salad with goat’s curd and hazelnuts is aromatic, nutty and surprisingly filling, and even though the cheese has been removed to accommodate a dairy-avoiding friend, it still packs a punch. A dish of eggs Florentine is ueber-rich, with buttery Hollandaise, perfectly poached eggs with runny yolks and salted, wilted spinach on soft muffins; it’s perfect hangover/ hunger appeasing grub.

There’s a thoughtful wine list which focuses on French grapes, with several decent wines available by the glass, including the in vogue Picpoul de Pinet (£6).

While you won’t win any points for bringing a date here, Canteen adds style to a working lunch. There are a total of five branches in the capital now, but expansion hasn’t diluted the quality of the food one bit.

Reviewed by Leila
Published on Sep 12, 2012

User Reviews

UnbanFox

Mar 30, 2013

Visited a very quiet Canteen yesterday and ordered two meals. The staff delivered a 'full' English and had to be reminded that we ordered two meals. By the time the second arrived, the 'full' English had been eaten.

The 'full' English comprised one sausage, one mushroom, one piece of tomato and two eggs, with two items of garnish. Call me old fashioned, but watercress has never been part of a full English, and never will be, even as garnish. The other garnish was two very small strips of streaky bacon.

Breakfast + Eggs Benedict and a pot of weak tea for £25? No wonder the place wa
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