Eyre Brothers Restaurant

Mediterranean Restaurant in The City
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9 / 10 from 2 reviews
Address
70 Leonard Street
The City
London
EC2A 4QY
Map
Telephone
020 7613 5346
Cuisine
Mediterranean
Region
The City
Nearest Station
Old Street
0.22 miles
Opening Summary
Lunch
Monday - Friday Noon to 3pm
Saturday & Sunday 12pm to 4pm

Dinner
Monday - Friday 6:30pm to 10:30pm
Saturday 7pm to 10:30pm

Bar
Monday to Friday Noon to 10

Here we have mouth-watering tapas and a punchy, Iberian inspired menu including a great variety of Iberian wines.

Since the launch by David Eyre in 2001, the restaurant has gone from strength to strength delivering fabulous food in a smart, yet relaxed environment to busy Londoners and visitors to the city.

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All In London Review

Outstanding food

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This Shoreditch restaurant has become something of a fixture over its 15 year career. The menu has classic Spanish and Portuguese dishes, including plenty of tapas. Very recently they introduced weekend lunches, and currently there's a bargain £25 deal on.

The wine list has many acclaimed names, but there are also some pretty impressive aperitifs such as the Rebujito. It's got plenty of dry Fino sherry but enough lemon juice, lemonade and soda to make it a refreshing summer's drink.

We start with tapas. Juicy mussels are smothered in vinaigrette - chopped peppers, shallots, and Spanish sherry vinegar ooze all over them. A plate of mild goat's cheese is garnished with salty black olives and fresh marjoram, generously drizzled with olive oil. There's grilled spicy chorizo, and slices of cured, acorn-fed pork loin are wonderfully fatty. Ham croquettes are rich and doughy, as are the Portuguese salt cod and potato cakes.

A large yellowfin tuna steak is fried just so, ruby-red on the inside and topped with green beans and slow cooked onions, with enough olive oil it may well have been ladled over. Grilled loin of Iberian pork is also rare, served over crushed 'patatas pobres' which translates as 'poor man's potatoes' as they're usually cooked with leftovers. Here they're anything but, dished up with green peppers, onions and white wine.

It's such a feast we pass up on dessert, but sweets stick to Iberian staples like Portuguese custard tarts and tarta de Santiago, an almond cake from the north of Spain.

The food is wonderfully faithful to its origins, and the menu is absurdly priced given its outstanding calibre.


The £25 weekend lunch menu is offered in conjunction with Mr Hyde, and includes an aperitif, three tapas, a main course, dessert and coffee. It's available till June 19th.

Reviewed by Leila anonymously
Published on Jun 7, 2016


User Reviews

Marie-Lise

May 18, 2008

On saturday evening we celebrated my son bithday at the restaurant. We were very pleased with the rapid service and the friendly atmosphere of the place. The meal was excellent very colourful and tasty.
We will definately go back there again to enjoy the good food.
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