Plateau Restaurant, in Canary Wharf, offers French style cuisine with a contemporary touch in the main restaurant and more informal fare in the stylish Bar & Grill.
The glamorous design, excellent cocktails and an imaginative wine list combine to provide an unforgettable experience.
Plateau Restaurant
Restaurant & Bar in Canary Wharf
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8 / 10 from 2 reviews
Address
Canada Place
Canary Wharf
London
E14 4QS
Canada Place
Canary Wharf
London
E14 4QS
Telephone
020 7715 7100
020 7715 7100
Cuisine
Restaurant & Bar
Restaurant & Bar
Region
Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf
Opening Summary
Midday - midnight, Monday to Saturday.
Midday - midnight, Monday to Saturday.
Restaurant Facilities
Big Screen TV
Disabled Facilities
Children Welcome
Credit Cards Accepted
Music Played
Live Music Played
Private Area
Outdoor Area
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Plateau Restaurant
All In London Review
Plateau celebrate spring with the 'Blossom City' tasting menu
As it's the floral season, flowers keep popping up as garnish. There's a choice of vegetarian or meat options, and for the vegetarian ones in particular, a lot of the same ingredients appear in each course.
This is not a bad thing. At the beginning of the meal there is a citrusy gin fizz, and a creamy tomato veloute soup which they pour onto a bowl of fresh ricotta, pesto, and a lightly sundried tomato.
A dish of seared scallops, lovage and almond purée, and a fried breaded oyster is very nice. Although the garden vegetable salad is essentially a bunch of crudités artfully arranged on the plate (nice crunchy asparagus, mangetout, carrot, pickled beetroot, black olive tapenade and little dollops of ricotta mousse, all dotted with espelette pepper), there's a winning risotto made with potato instead of rice. It's a supremely creamy melange of small cubed potatoes, a soft-yolked poached egg and shelled broad beans, punctuated with more espelette. It's more creative than the meat dish - duck terrine with foie gras wrapped in Parma ham, with rhubard in pickled ginger, although this is very good too.
Rose veal rump ordered pink is perfectly cooked. A vegetable tart is very tasty, with puff pastry filled with lots of rich quinoa, flecked with goat's curd, and yet more espelette and veg. It's very filling, perhaps a bit too much for a six course menu.
The pre-dessert is a glass filled with lemon mousse topped with gin jelly, although you have to make sure you get the ratio right on each spoonful as too much jelly is bitter.
The edible 'basket of blossom surprises' is very cloying, filled with a biscuit drenched with strawberry purée, caramel and chocolate sauce. That alone would be enough sugar, but they are also sweet edible bees, marshmallows and crumbled chocolate. The dessert comes with a gift - a ring by Cadenzza, a nearby jewellers who are part of the Swarovski group. However the ring isn't quite as elegant as the rest of the menu.
The Blossom City Menu Gourmand is available till 30th June. Menus are priced at £60 per person or £85 with paired wines.
Reviewed by Leila
anonymously
Published on May 25, 2016
Businesslike Plateau serves enjoyable French-inspired fare
Like a lot of the restaurants around Canary Wharf, it’s housed in a glass atrium that would look great in the sunlight, but combined with the muted décor it feels gloomy on a grey day like today.
But Plateau is tailor-made for this area; there is a cigar humidor near the entrance, and the wine list has plenty of wines by the glass, with bottles starting from £19 and rising to hundreds of pounds.
We’re in the more casual, less expensive Bar & Grill rather than the restaurant, where the menu is divided into starters, sandwiches, Plateau classics and Josper oven dishes. There are snacks too - four plump red peppers are stuffed with ricotta and drizzled with olive oil, a simple, tasty aperitif, although they could have been left at room temperature a little longer. But it’s a very small point in a pleasant meal.
A salad of Belgian endives, chunks of blue Fourme D’ambert cheese and crunchy toasted walnuts is a winner and “extremely French”, I’m assured by my lunching partner in crime, who grew up in France. A dish of cured beef and celeriac remoulade is a grower, each bite reveals more of the mustardy celeriac which is a great match for the salty meat.
A mild curried potage of juicy mussels in their shells is the accompaniment to a nice piece of grilled bream; the Josper-cooked marinated poussin is good, if not earth-shattering, with sautéed potatoes and fresh spinach.
Puddings are gloriously retro, like lemon posset, profiteroles and the knickerbocker glory made with ultra-saccharine bubblegum ice cream, revealing a surprising playfulness to this businesslike eatery.
A three course meal for two with wine at Plateau Bar & Grill is around £100.
Reviewed by Leila
Published on Apr 30, 2013
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This stylish eatery has views over Canary Wharf, an open kitchen and two covered terraces with gentlemen’s club-style seating. The menu is French, with plenty of hearty dishes like roast fillet of beef and pig’s cheeks with black pudding.
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The D&D-owned Plateau has great views of Canary Wharf thanks to its floor to ceiling windows, which add a touch of drama to this corporate area. The menu has French and British influences, and in addition to the restaurant there is a more casual brasserie.
User Reviews
anthropology
Sep 4, 2012
I recently discovered Plateau, and I have to say food and service is great. I had smart guests over and was googling for a NICE place in East, this one i have visited 3 times since, Highly recommend. East London doesn't have too many places like Plateau. Thumbs up!
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