Langtry's Restaurant
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Special Offer only available online - please book above
2 courses with unlimited wine £29.95
Offer Details: ...from a set menu. Includes Vat, excludes service. Wine is Laroche (White or Red).
Available: Monday to Saturday 18:00 to 21:00
Maximum people: 24
Terms: Expires 14th July 08
50% off food
Offer Details: ...from the a la carte menu (based on a minimum of two courses, one a main course) Includes Vat, excludes service.
Available: Monday to Friday 18:00 to 22:30
Maximum people: 6
Terms: Expires 11th July 08
Weekend Unlimited Champagne Lunch: £35
Offer Details: ...from a set menu (three courses for £35 including Louis de Custine Champange/ £45 including Perrier Jouet. Includes Vat, excludes service.
Available: Sunday 12:00 to 14:30. Saturday 12:00 to 14:30.
Maximum people: 24
Terms: Expires 10th July 08
our comments
The restaurant is of course named after the actress, girl-about-town, bit of an old slapper, Lillie Langtry whose home this was between 1892 to 1897. The house became the Cadogan Hotel in 1895, but Lilly craftily retained her bedroom. Today it still has plenty of old-world charm with the spaces that make up the restaurant easily recognisable as the rooms of a pleasant London town house.
The food here is British, a sound choice given the history of the place and we went for the very good value lunch on offer. Head Chef Robert Lyons has an excellent eye for what makes classic food and combines it with cool visual panache so that the dishes have all the appeal of trendy Mod Med and none of the stodginess British food can be renowned for. For example the signature dish of prawn cocktail was a mile away from what my mum used to make and yet retained the classic elements that we all love. In a tall-stemmed glass went a lobster bisque jelly, topped with avocado mousse, then came Marie Rose ice cream and finally a topping of tempura prawns. Diving down through this range of textures was a real treat. On the other plate was Beef tea, a clear beef broth made from Speyside Angus beef plus a soft-boiled quails egg. This was Edwardian food remade for the Wills and Harry generation; stylish and packed full of flavour, it had all that a good consommé should have.
That same beef saw action in the Steak and Kidney pie, a dish that regularly appalls Americans who can’t grasp the concept of a pie that isn’t dessert and think offal is awful. This was dainty and cute with a big bold ox kidney that kicked in great flavour while a tomato and potato foam (which was really a puree) was a good addition. Nice pastry too, none of the greasiness that normally afflicts these things. Toad in the Hole, another classic dish, didn’t look like any toad in the hole I’ve ever made. Somerset pork loin, Wiltshire bacon, mushrooms, sage and onion pudding and wilted leeks made a great combination and the crackling from the loin really crackled. Lovely.
What else to end with but sticky toffee and date pudding with a caramel sauce? It got all over my cutlery and hands, but hey sometimes you have to get messy. Oh and Rhubarb and Custard, a cool concoction of baked egg custard tart and Lincolnshire rhubarb ice cream also hit the spot. All this for £21 per person for lunch? Brilliant value and the evening menu looked just as good with all kinds of offers on the wines. Langtry's is well worth checking out for a slice of old England that’s very cool Britannia.
N.H. - April 2007
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Went yesterday for lunch and I have to say i was very disappointed to start with there was only 3 items for each course and they had run out of some of these.
My main course was steak and chips, well the steak could have come form tesco's and this was served with 4 chips. They came around 3 times with bread rolls so we knew that the main course was going to be small. Starter and pudding not bad but you will come away needing something else to eat. The service was good and the endless drink was great and we had a lovely time. But I would not go back as I have eaten better food.
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Overall rating 
Food 1 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 6
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Three for Saturday night dinner a couple of weekends ago. A slightly updated Fawlty Towers type setting but with really good food and excellent service. Cherry Tomato Tart and the Home-made Pork Pie were star starters and the best mains were the Roasted Salmon and the Seabass. The perfectly acceptable red or white wine that is included with the menu flowed freely which makes the whole experience wonderful value. The only thing missing was a brisk walk along the promenade after dinner - we had to make do with Sloane Street instead.
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Russell Barnes - View all reviews by this user
Overall rating 
Food 8 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Unlimited Perrier Jouet champagne on Saturday/Sunday for lunch for £30, need I say more???
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Food 8 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 10
Thursday, August 16, 2007
I almost don't want to write this review as I feel like I'm about to let out a secret and the good people of Knightsbridge may lynch me (and my friends). However if you're looking for a meal which won't break the bank in this uber-expensive part of town, in one of the most elegant dining rooms I know, Langtry's is the place to be. It's part of teh grand old Edwardian Cadogan Hotel, and feels very old school. The cooking is too, as is the service, but actually that's a really good thing – ie it's thoughtful and dignified. And, get this – you can get the set dinner, three courses plus unlimited wine for £35. The wine wasn't spectacular, as you'd expect for that price but was very palatable.
It's old-fashioned food – (delicious) pork pie, cockle soup, duck breast and so on, but sensitively cooked and beautifully presented. My only real complaint is (and hence 7/10) that the food is over-salted, but as I don't really like salt in food at all, I'm probably fussy.
It's not trendy, trendy, trendy and isn't particularly easy to find, being round teh corner on Pont Street, but just trust me (and all the other reviewers), it's lovely. I'll be back for sure, salt or no. Apparently the sunday lunch is v. good too.
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Jane
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Food 7 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Thursday, August 16, 2007
What can I say? Sooper dooper, wunderbar and very nice indeed!!! Beautiful attentive staff, sumptious food - the best pork pie I've ever tasted - I'm rather partial to pork ... As for the steak and kidney pie - it was an oral delight!! They have a special Laroche wine deal which is unspeakablly clever and the wine really rather good!!
Go and enjoy this place - it's inexpensive, sophisticated and delightful!!!
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The Priapic Ferret
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Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Friday, June 29, 2007
The Limitless Laroche wine deal is superb!
I dined at Langtrys recently and enjoyed it immensley. The restaurant is easliy found just off Sloane Street where lilly langtry once lived.
The decor is real old world with lots of modern touches and gives a great sense of romantic atmosphere with low lighting and opluent surroundings
The menu is full of great English dishes, accompanied by really nice wines (and it really is limiltess)
The service was friendly and unobtrusive and i found the evening to be great value for money.
I will definately return!
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Overall rating 
Food 9 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Friday, June 15, 2007
Though Langtry's is a beautiful environment, decorated well, with subtle modern touches to a traditionally grand dining space, the eating experience failed to live up to the decor.
The food was less than average, with a starter of fairly ordinary pork pie (probably bought in) was served with what was clearly Branston's pickle. Not something I'd expect in even the cheapest restaurant, let alone one charging £24 a head for the set dinner. My friend's tomato tart was bland, too. The mains improved with some decent pheasant, though the sauce was lacking in flavour and quantity. We opted out of a pudding, for obvious reasons, but were given a palate cleanser of sorbet in a tangerine, which was far too sweet and my fruit had a horrible, off-putting black bit on it. Overall, the food was below standard.
As for the staff, they were unnecessarily formal and trying far too hard. This isn't exactly Gordon Ramsay or the Dorchester, but they thought it was. It was as if they'd learned there overly-fussy, overly-formal techniques from an evening class, but had no real idea how to put the guests at ease. Of which, for most of our Friday night there, we were the only two. I don't see this place lasting long, which is sad as it has real potential, if only they'd chill out a bit, relax and, most crucially, learn to cook better.
In summary, all surface and no content. I wouldn't go back.
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yeschef
Overall rating 
Food 3 | Service 4 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 3
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
After reading several good reviews on Langtry's, we looked forward to our dinner there one Saturday evening in February. We were suitably impressed with the very pretty dining room and the really lovely ambience. The menu looked great too. As we are in the habit of sharing starter and pud, we orderd a two course set menu each. The starter, a tomato tart was great, then followed a tiny but delicious amuse gueule which was however served with a horrendously sugary lemonade shot. Why? My husbands pheasant was yummy although it came with some mashed potato the consistency of 'smash'. My grilled salmon was completely undercooked, slippery and virtually raw. An again overly sweet and therefore compleately unrefreshing mini mandarin sorbet followed the main course after which we were served our bread and butter pudding, a sadly bland and pappy affair smothered in a kind of custard mousse. Although the waiter himself commented on the state of the uncooked salmon and
despite us mentioning it to him twice, we were not offered an alternative but instead were fully charged for the meal. A subsequent letter to the manager of this establishment elicited no goodwill gesture either just the hope that we would return another day. I dont think so, somehow. After an £85 spend, I do not expect to leave a restaurant hungry! One final observation: the staff here have been trained to be gratingly 'friendly' in the most excrutiatingly artificial way with each of them repeating the same overfamiliar patter to every table. Eurgh! On the whole and despite the lovely interior, we found this restaurant to be well below standard and rather fake.
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Kia Armstrong
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Food 4 | Service 4 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 2
Friday, February 23, 2007
Visited for lunch on a quiet January Saturday. The dining room was deserted, but the food was delicious and the service friendly and unobtrusive. Wines were reasonably priced. The decor was glamorous, but still cosy. Would definitely recommend if you are in the area...
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Mr and Mrs Salmon
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Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 9
Monday, January 29, 2007
It was a cosy restaurant, with warm and glamorous atmosphere. I went on a weekday and it was nice and quiet. Food is rather traditional.
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Alix
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Food 8 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 8
Thursday, November 30, 2006
