Brasserie Blanc

French Restaurant in Covent Garden
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7 / 10 from 1 review
Address
35 The Market
Covent Garden
London
WC2E 8RF
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Cuisine
French
Region
Covent Garden
Nearest Station
Covent Garden
0.08 miles

Following recent openings in Berkhamsted and St Paul‚s, Brasserie Blanc is delighted to announce the 16th May launch of a superb new venue located at the iconic Opera Terrace in the heart of London‚s Covent Garden.
With its stunning arched glass ceiling and views across the piazza, the Grade II-listed building housing this latest addition to the Brasserie Blanc collection is a destination in itself.
Brasserie Blanc prides itself on using seasonal ingredients, including sustainable, free-range or freedom foods. Menus change according to the seasons but current menu items include Burgundian snails in garlic herb butter; slow cooked belly pork, roast green apple sauce & spring cabbage; free range Cornish steaks and the all-time favourite dessert, flaming baked Alaska. In addition to the à la carte menu, a prix fixe Dine with Wine menu will be available. Consisting of two courses with a glass of red or white wine, this is available from 12 noon to 7pm and is ideal for pre-theatre dining.

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All In London Review

Affordable food from the famous Frenchman

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Like Donatella Versace’s Versus and Stella McCartney’s range for, erm, H&M, Raymond Blanc’s brasseries provide an accessible way to try the famous Frenchman’s creations. Just don’t go expecting haute cuisine.

Up until very recently Blanc’s affordable eateries had been confined to the home counties, but in 2012 London has seen branches open in or around St. Paul’s, Covent Garden and Tower of London, with more planned for the Southbank, Bishopsgate, Chancery Lane and Charlotte Street.

It’s buzzing on the roof terrace opposite Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House, as Blanc’s promotional can-can has clearly done the trick. We’re hoping to dine alfresco but are told it’s closed, and unfortunately there is a problem with the air-con inside. This is very much a newly-opened restaurant - the wine list is missing most of its pages, and when our bottle of Rosé arrives it’s warm, but both niggles are soon put right.

The menu has simple, homely dishes, like beef Stroganoff, blue cheese soufflé and mushroom-stuffed corn fed chicken. The steak tartare suffers from overzealous dollops of tabasco in places, a pity as the hand minced beef topped with raw egg yolk is really quite nice. Rather unexpectedly, the avocado, tomato and Greek yoghurt salad turns out to be the better starter, with the avo mashed to a creamy consistency and set, pudding-like, in the centre of the plate, topped with yoghurt and sprinkled with paprika. Chopped tomato and rocket in a balsamic dressing perks it up further.

We like the lamb’s liver, left a little rare in the middle, with a slightly sweet sherry vinegar cutting through its strong flavour; also good is the smoked haddock flan, surprisingly light as the chunks of fish and leeks do all the talking, the only let-down is a side salad of limp-looking lettuce leaves.

The selection of cheeses is exquisite: smooth, semi-firm Tomme Crayeuse, slightly tangy Shropshire Blue, intensely whiffy, super-soft St. Nectaire, and robust, thick-rinded Soumaintrain are delicious sampled one after the other, several times over. Palates suitably cleansed we try the light and foamy rhubarb sabayon, with the great combo of chunks of sour rhubarb and sweet crunchy honeycomb.

It’s not quite designer, but at £75 for a meal for two it’s definitely worth the gamble.

Reviewed by Leila
Published on Jun 8, 2012


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