![]() Not once were we asked if we'd like another. For our drinks we started with a glass of champagne, a mocktail, a cocktail and water for the table. The service was awful, and for the best part of 2 hours we sat waiting. This Saturday was no different except it was a treat for my twin daughters who were celebrating their 21st birthday.Īs I've come to expect, the food was lovely. Saturday afternoon marked my 5th visit to Sketch having visited on several occasions with friends celebrating special days. Main courses are divided between vegetarian, fish and meat options including sole cooked a la Meunière accompanied by a potato puree with green curry spices and shiitake mushrooms lamb cutlets grilled with oregano, creamy polenta and Swiss chard served with a Provençale stew and ravioli of sweet onion with juniper berries and lemon sabayon. From the starters highlights include pan fried langoustines with green tea, yellow mango, fresh soya and dry apricots and wild duck terrine with foie gras and onion marmalade and brioche with duck rillettes. The food is largely modern European with some strong French influences. ![]() However the venue also offers an a la carte menu too which is served until 2am for any night owls with midnight munchies. Guests will also be served a traditional Victoria sponge from the trolley. These delicate sweet treats include a mandarin Battenberg, Mont Blanc tart and pistachio choux. The offering is a traditional affair with a broad selection of teas to choose from or bubbles for those who prefer things more fancy! An assorted selection of finger sandwiches with fillings including coronation chicken, egg gougere, and truffle croque are followed by a scones with jam and cream and a selection of picture perfect petits gateaux. The soft pastel pink interiors of The Gallery with its velvet banquette seating is a calm and distinctly feminine room, well suited to it’s principal offering of Afternoon Tea, served every day of the week from 11.30am – 4.30 pm. The Mayfair restaurant is the brainchild of restauranteur Mourad Mazouz and esteemed chef Pierre Gagnaire who have honed in on the area’s affluent populous of party goers and thrill seekers who are always looking for the next best thing. The venue is divided between four separate restaurants and each boast their own uniquely breath-taking interiors that just beg to be photographed. Our advice? Plump for pudding and a well-made cocktail at the bar to enjoy the surrounds for a snip of the price.Ī trip to Sketch is more of multi-sensory experience than a straightforward meal out and yet this venue is proving to sceptics that a restaurant can indeed carry both style and substance with Michelin awarding it three stars. We hate to say it, but the Gallery at Sketch is less about the food and more about the whole performance. ![]() With mains setting you back anywhere between £30-45, an experience at Sketch doesn’t come cheap. Here flavours of chocolate and blood orange cooled and complimented one another for a fun, fruity finish. Pudding brought a baked Alaska surrounded by candy floss clouds that were doused in burning alcohol tableside, to make for an instant whisky syrup. Elsewhere, a main of poached turbot was presented on circular lines of sweet artichoke puree that were reminiscent of water marks in the sand, and while picture-perfect, it came out lukewarm and lacked much contrast which might have been found in some citrus acidity. A pretty flower-like arrangement of scallop carpaccio with salmon roe, green apple and avocado was pleasantly mild, with thick cut meat bringing subtle sweet notes. If it’s true that you eat as much with your eyes as you do your mouth, the riotous dishes from chef Frédéric Don won’t disappoint. In line with the theatrical surrounds, the staff fulfil their duties with a near-thespian flourish: intense but charming and underneath the show smiles are people who really know their stuff, advising on the lengthy, luxurious drinks list and wordy menu. No fewer than 96 of his works are displayed in the Gallery, which functions as a restaurant, exhibition space and – thanks to India Mahdavi’s interior designs – the closest thing London has to a walk-in bubble-gum bubble. All pastel pink and plush, the playful space even has its very own app an augmented reality piece of kit that allows diners to project elements of the prints hanging on the walls onto their live pictures and videos. Nobody finds themselves in this haute homage to a powder room for half measures, including artist David Shrigley. The pastel pink Gallery at Sketch must be, we’re confident in saying, the most photographed room in the capital and its appeal has endured, more than 15 years on. It’s quite something to step into a room in reality that you’ve seen more than a thousand times on social media beforehand.
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