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St. JOHN Restaurant London Reviews from The Last Year
A perfect meal.
Elevated, comforting flavours using great produce treated with care and not overfussed. The brill special of the day was exceptional as well as the date loaf with butterscotch sauce! Staff were helpful and friendly and the vibe of the restaurant is welcoming and tasteful.
A Must Do EXPERIENCE
On our final night in London, and vowing to stop and go here on every Euro Trip, my wife and I feasted on some very unique fares. I had the blood cake and she had the deviled calf kidneys. Started off with the bone marrow app. First time enjoying nose to tail dining. This is the place! Very helpful staff. To get to our menu choices we asked for a description on some of our candidate choices. Choices indeed! There. Said it 3 times. We were unprepared for what we heard. From ingredients to cooking temp to every detail of the process from kitchen to plate to table. Excellent! Check this place out. We will be back!
Michelin but not pretentious
It may sound like an oxymoron, but an unpretentious Michelin restaurant. I had a business lunch and it was great. The atmosphere is more like a bistro than a formal dining room, the service was efficient and formal rather than pretentious. I started with the brown crab, which was nice but the star was the saddleback, pork loin cooked a little pink. It was flavorful, tender, as good as can be. An enjoyable restaurant.
It may sound like an oxymoron, but an unpretentious
It may sound like an oxymoron, but an unpretentious Michelin restaurant. I had a business lunch and it was great. The atmosphere is more like a bistro than a formal dining room, the service was efficient and formal rather than pretentious. I started with the brown crab, which was nice but the star was the saddleback, pork loin cooked a little pink. It was flavorful, tender, as good as can be. An enjoyable restaurant.
I was quite disappointed by this meal, from start to finish.
I'll start with the parts I enjoyed - the potatoes were great, dessert was great, and wine was great. The pigeon was prepared very well. Unfortunately, I don't have many positive things to say beyond that. We had to push through a crowd to enter the restaurant, and then we were seated in a dining room that felt like it belonged in an American bbq joint. The doors to the dining room were opened the whole time as servers were going in and out, which led to an unfortunate draft throughout the meal. This was probably a night-specific experience, but it set an unpleasant tone. Service was slow and impersonal, although allergens/dietary restrictions were accommodated well. The braised lamb was added onto the menu as a substitution for the game pie, and I truly could not eat more than a few bites of it. Flavors were unpleasant, and it was not prepared well. Everything else was forgettable - the cabbage that came with the pigeon was ok, the beef and lentil broth was ok. Altogether it felt like a disjointed, careless meal. I am disappointed because people talk about this place with such reverence, so I hoped my experience would be more pleasant. Not the place for me!
The most relaxed star meal I’ve ever had!
St John was honestly the most chilled Michelin experience I’ve ever had. The setting is brilliant, it’s 100 mile an hour with all the staff zipping about the place, it’s great to see such a different type of restaurant to the usual white table cloth, quiet Michelin spots you become accustomed too. Another thing that I’d never seen before was the coat racks around the room, normally coats are ushered off to a dark room but here they’re hung where you eat, not in the way, not a problem, just something really different. We had the Crispy pig skin for a shared starter which was just the best pork scratching that I’ve ever had. I also had their signature Roasted Bone Marrow on toast, one of the best starters I’ve ever eaten. My wife had the Duck Pate, nice but nothing we’d not had before. I also would encourage everyone to try the Rarebit, blew my mind! The mains were where I really appreciated how relaxed the place was. I ordered the Teal Duck and was encouraged to use my hands to really get all the meat off the bone. At first I was a bit skeptical but looking around and seeing other people doing it I got stuck in! My wife had crispy pig cheek for her main and again it was incredible, so filling too. Dessert was my favourite dish of the evening, I had the Buttermilk Pudding which came with the most incredible rehydrated figs. They gave a real mulled wine, cinnamon flavour when paired with the creamy dessert absolutely knocked my socks off. My wife had the Ginger loaf and butterscotch sauce, far too rich for me but she loved it. I’d been meaning to come to St John for years before I eventually made the booking, I’m just gutted that I’d not been there sooner!
A wonderful restaurant experience at all levels
St John is special, and it's been special ever since I first came to the restaurant in the 1990s. Few restaurants get all these things right - food, service, and atmosphere - but St John does. The food is the best of British: a bit quirky, imaginative, and incredibly tasty. The service is sublime - you don't get this type of service anywhere else in London - attentive, but not overly so. You feel the waiters/waitresses could sit down with you and enjoy the meal with you. They're at the same level as you - and just really nice. The atmosphere in the impressive whitewashed former smokehouse is buzzing with people enjoying themselves - and the great food. This place is an institution. How many restaurants in London have been going for 30 years and consistently been offering all the above? Few if any. I hope to return to this wonderful place for many years yet...
Meat heaven.
A paradise for meat lovers. At first you wonder if it's old, but then you feel ashamed when you see the service and food. I suggest you prepare yourself for this feast by going early and sipping your beer at the bar.
We were super excited to dine at St John.
Many food loving people recommend this place to us. I love whole animal butchery and simple honest cooking methods so why 2 stars? Sad to say, we did not enjoy what we ate at St John Bar. Maybe it was an off night? Or I was expecting something more. I prepare similar but better food at home on a week night. For example, the bone marrows were just ordinary and needed more parsey. I prepare it the similar way but I cook local grass fed beef bone marrow over hard wood fire, sprinkle with flaky Læsø Salt & Tellicherry Peppercorns then dress it with fresh parsley from our garden and splash of white Balsamic vinegar. Other dishes were ok as well but we felt they were overly rich and not balanced. Fish was fresh and fine but I do not understand their sauce pairing. Greens were overgrown, tough and too fibrous. People call me Bunny because I love raw greens more than anything but I could not eat it. Kids enjoyed a mountain of the freshly baked Madeleines. They were 5 stars.
Great meal away from the busy tourist spots of London in quiet clerkenwell
Great find off the beaten track. Looks like some garage but wow the food was delicious. Many meat based dishes..we were four and shared many...all were great.
Great Dining Experience!
Wow! I am a bit late in writing this review, but my goodness, I am still thinking about this restaurant and my experience eating here. The restaurant atmosphere is very hip, with a bit of industrial meets "meat." I was a bit late arriving due to traveling into the UK from the EU that day and had a minor delay, but the bartender kept my coworker engaged in pleasant conversation. From the moment we sat down, we had such high levels of friendly service all the way to the end of our meal service. The food was really amazing. We shared the potted pork on toast (I still think of this) and the bone marrow with parsley salad (yum). My coworker ordered something I can't say I would expect to see on a menu in the US but there it was...lamb's liver. He said it was sweet and delicious tasting. I ordered the Guinea fowl that was so good I went cavewoman style by picking it up to eat every morsel off the bones. We ordered a couple of sides including the Jersey potatoes. ...and that bread served before the meal was so delicious. I love that this restaurant has its own winery and we enjoyed the Claret with our meal. For dessert, I tried something very unique, which was the gooseberry ice cream, and my co-worker had the ginger loaf. The gooseberry was sweet-tart and really unique. The ginger loaf was just as you'd expect - dense, sweet, and delicious. We finished the meal with a 20-year Dow port. It was a great experience, and I would definitely pop into London to eat a meal at this place again.
My wife and I dined at the Spitalfields location with
My wife and I dined at the Spitalfields location with clients some years ago and were told the raw pigeon was "cooked perfectly," but not learning our lesson we returned to the Smithfield location recently. We both became ill hours later and remained unwell for several days. Again, the restaurant confirmed the meal was perfect and deflected blame. Could be coincidence. But we won't be returning.
Still great food but slipping standards
Full disclosure - I adore St John - I have eaten here many, many times over the years, for birthdays, client lunches, even for New Year's Eve. The menu is consistently exciting as it (normally) is well-executed (more on this later on). The reason for the review however is a general sense of slipping standards over the past 3-4 years that are becoming more and more noticeable. As I say, the food is generally excellent. Yesterday I had potted pork on toast to start, a rustic, how-it-should-be pate with plenty of flavour and offset brilliantly with pickled cucumber. Good start then. Then things went up a level with the gurnard dish I had next. My word, perfectly cooked Gurnard, served whole, with a light dressing of caper vinaigrette, with a few fried croutons. Genuinely brilliant cooking and concept, which made the latest trip more than worthwhile and went very well with the 2020 St John white burgundy. Pudding was profiteroles with pouring chocolate sauce which was fine - well executed but the ice cream was too cold and not hugely flavourful. I generally don't have pudding at lunch time but as am doing the Zoe app thing and was interested in how pudding would affect my blood sugar (oddly it went down significantly - eh?). So all, in all, my lunch there was very, very good. However...I mentioned slipping standards. The waiter wasn't the best. Usually we have very good service here which makes it all the more noticeable when the service isn't great. This is more likely to be a one off but we will keep an eye on it. When ordering sides, we noticed that the ox tongue dish came with chips (often a ploy at St John, if they think they may struggle to shift a more challenging dish, they will put it with chips - last time we were here it was tripe and chips). We asked if we could have some chips with our main courses instead of boiled new potatoes. Most restaurants of this quality would have been able to do this no question, no problem. Our request was dismissed out of hand, saying they would likely not have enough chips for the ox tongue orders. Statistically this is enormously unlikely, and as it happens we didn't see anyone else order ox tongue while we were there (no huge surprise given it was the most challenging dish on the menu that day). We saw this as a needless denial. Generosity seems to be thin on the ground here these days, and sadly has been for years. The roast bone marrow and parsley salad, a stone cold classic, has gone from four bones to now sometimes two, which can barely produce enough marrow to cover the piece of toast you get with it. At the New Year party I mentioned at the top, they hadn't provided enough potatoes with the main course for even one each, and when more were requested this was denied at first. Staggering really. This was sorted in the end, but further proof of the point. Back to yesterday and my friend ordered date pudding, as ever exactly the kind of thing you would hope to see on the menu at St John, and wouldn't expect to find it in many other places. The pudding was good, but the butterscotch sauce was quite badly burnt. When sending this back, we were told "this is how we do it, as it adds the necessary bitterness". Fair enough in theory but if they tasted that sauce and were happy with it I would be very, very surprised. It was hugely bitter, and burnt, overwhelming the flavour of the pudding and ruining the pudding. And why this wasn't explained to us before ordering, that the sauce would be burnt, I don't know. You can't expect people to know that a butterscotch sauce would taste like that, so either tell us on the menu, or tell us when we order. Don't wait for us to complain then tell us that is "how you do it". Which as I say I doubt they tasted before serving. I have never seen this attitude here before, and I have discussed dishes regularly as most diners would with a menu of the quality that St John produces. But there was a different feel to this, again our feedback was dismissed out of hand in a dismissive, even haughty way which is generally catastrophic for business. So a nasty taste left in the mouth, in more ways than one, and a genuine fear that things are slipping. The food generally is still amazing and you should go here if you can but I fear things are not as great as some staff think they are, and certainly not quite what it was in its pomp.
Discombobulated meal.
Things came out without any explanation. We couldn't discern between a small side salad and a main course fish dish which tells you about portion size . It was underwhelming overall. Food was mediocre. Lights are super downstairs and there is zero ambiance. Wouldn't return.
The busser's uniform was torn at the shoulder.
In a restaurant that exemplifies the beauty of simplicity, every small detail must be attended to. This tear was indicative of an overall sagging of attention. Our server brought our wine, opened-filled everyone's glass almost to the top and then presented the bottle for me to check the label. The wine, due to insane heat in London (33), was warm, and once 2/3 of the bottle was poured out, short of ice cubes in the glasses, not much could be done. There was a lot of toast (lamb's brains, brown crab, girolles) and all of it was borderline burnt and too tough for even our steak knives. The salads were seriously over dressed, although the dressing was delicious, the overall effect was unpleasant. My grouse was excellent, a properly hung bird cooked to perfection. I have been coming to St. John ever since it opened on each and every trip to London. My last trip was 5 years ago, and the difference between this trip and my last was remarkable and terribly disappointing. We were there on a Friday night and the dining room didn't fill up until 9pm. Like the wine, a victim of the heat I suppose. Have they over extended? The back of the menu is filled up with the other St. John operations. But I went ahead and kept my St John Marylebone reservation and was glad I did. More about that later.
First trip to London and had the most amazing meal.
The Welsh Rarebit was the absolute best. I went local and had the turbot, leeks and lavabread, OUTSTANDING! The service was wonderful also.
I had dinner here, and I thought it was just alright.
Maybe my expectations were too high, but I found the food to be just ok. The service was great, though! To start, we had the smoked cod roe on toast and the bone marrow and parsley salad. The smoked cod row basically just looked like smeared canned fish on toast, and that's how it tasted, too. The star of the whole meal was the bone marrow. That was amazing! For my main, I had the ox tongue with bacon and peas. It tasted like corned beef to me, but I'm not opposed to that. I really enjoy corned beef, but I wasn't expecting the tongue to taste like that. For dessert, I had the madeleines and Abbey's chocolate cake. The madeleines were warm, fluffy, and so light! I loved them! The chocolate cake was HUGE, and it was quite dense. I couldn't finish it.
Proper good food from start to finish.
We started with the venison and mackerel, our friends had the house classic bone marrow on toast. Then we shared the mega meat pie, hake, with sides of potatoes and greens, and Welsh rarebit. Phenomenal. Super friendly servers and a very non-fussy interior. Would highly recommend.
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Worked perfectly!
Got the reservation (that I couldn't get anywhere else) and was able to entertain a group of friends at the infamous Bern's Steakhouse.
Got into Nobu Malibu
Wonderful! My parents are visiting and we have wanted to go to Nobu Malibu for years. I tried getting a reservation myself but it was next to impossible. So glad I was able to buy a reservation on appointment trader for a decent price!
Very easy
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Fabulous Lunch
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Worked perfectly
Was a little nervous at first but was pleased to see that the booking went through flawlessly.
Highly recommended.
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Worked flawlessly!
Worked so well! I was a bit nervous, but everything went very smoothly. purchased the reservation, and got into the restaurant seamlessly.
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Quick table in Miami
I didn’t have my hopes high as it was a party of 4. In 24 hours I had a carbone reservation available! I was very happy as my family really wanted to come here
Prime time, great meal
So easy and had a prime time which I can never seem to get on normal res apps. So worth it
Got impossible NYC res
instead of waiting weeks I got my 4 charles reservation instantly
Worked perfectly to get into Carbone. So delighted
perfect
Worked well, got me into a restaurant with no availability
I was skeptical, and I still don't really know how they managed to find this hard-to-find reservation, but it was a win-win from my point of view, and I'll use this service again.
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Very easy to get into one of the hardest restaurants to reserve in New York.
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