Rabbit

Rabbit Restaurant is a farm to table restaurant based in Chelsea offering wild food, set lunch and Sunday Roasts. We are a great place to eat in Chelsea.

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Opened in 2014, Rabbit which is located on the Kings Road in flashy Chelsea, its a slice of the countryside on the famous high street.

Brought to you by the Gladwin Brothers, Rabbit’s local and wild concept gives you small plates with an ever changing menu and electric atmosphere.

Our menu highlights British seasonal produce with focus on the hedgerow, local vegetables and sustainable use of livestock from the Gladwin’s own farm.

Rabbit is a great spot for your wedding lunch, located just 100 meters from Chelsea Town Hall Join us with up to 30 people to celebrate your special day.

Ask about our shoppers weekday set lunch menu or famous Sunday roast Lunch when strolling down the Kings Road.

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Chelsea Rabbit restaurant boss arrested after swigging champagne ...

Richard Gladwin, 31, co-owner of 'wild food' restaurant Rabbit, was arrested by armed police in the early hours of Friday morning on August 28 following reports of him 'in a shooting stance pointing the shotgun at a taxi driver'.

A report to Kensington and Chelsea council by director of environmental health Nicholas Austin said Mr Gladwin appeared to be 'heavily intoxicated' and 'waving the gun around which he kept on display in the restaurant'.

Mr Gladwin and his restaurant manager Fred Samengo-Turner, 27 - who was also arrested - have been banned from entering the restaurant before a council licensing hearing next Tuesday.

Rabbit opened last year and is run by Mr Gladwin, who is front of house and his younger brothers Oliver, a chef, and Gregory, who grows produce on the family farm in West Sussex.

She then called Mr Gladwin who, the report says, 'grabbed him by the arm digging his nails into his skin.'

Rabbit - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens

In a prime Chelsea location, a welcoming English bistro, serving tasty small plates in an setting of some rusticity; it looks set to become a popular standby, though prices for full meals can escalate.

Here we were, waiting for lunch, with a good (if oblique) view of one of the prime stretches of the King’s Road (between Waterstone’s and Waitrose).

(The Shed, if you don’t know, is the place that took over the site of The Ark - a Kensington bistro in business since time immemorial - a couple of years ago.)

The food - seasonal and local, in the sense that much of it comes from the proprietors’ Sussex farm - is very much in the same vein as in Kensington, if perhaps a bit fancier.

For a first visit, then, we'd possibly suggest this place more for an early (or late) shopping lunch than a full-blown affair, as the total bill can escalate to a level which might feel a bit disproportionate.

Rabbit, restaurant review: The Gladwin brothers are bringing ...

As Lee himself puts it: "Never to be forgotten, that first long secret drink of golden fire, juice of those valleys and of that time, wine of wild orchards, of russet summer, of plump red apples, and Rosie's burning cheeks.

The whole place reeks of nostalgia, country bumpkinery – and cider with Rosie.

The fast dishes include a tempura duck liver, perfectly done, with red-wine lentils, bacon jam, peppercorn and lovage, for £8.

Three dishes that I can't fault, however: the Nutbourne lamb with onion squash (which is sweet and moreish), sunflower seeds, honey and mint (£12); and, from the slow menu, a veal hotpot with malt, shallot and garlic; and stout-smoked mackerel with ironbark pumpkin, cranberries and black cabbage (both amazing value at £8).

To give mackerel, which can be slippery at the best of times, the tough, malty flavour of stout, and to throw plump, juicy cranberries against crunchy, sweet cabbage, is an inspired idea.

Fay Maschler reviews Rabbit | London Evening Standard

For once, “farm to table” has some resonance; Gregory raises livestock and digs and delves in Nutbourne, West Sussex, near the family vineyard.

The disappointments —sturdy batons of damp, raw kohlrabi rolled in black sesame seeds stuck into carrot hummus and cured scallop, a pallid, snotty presence overpowered by Nutbourne air-dried ham, dulse, buckshorn and that impostor Wiltshire truffle — are put to the back of the mind by the beauty of other assemblies.

Delicate slices of rare Nutbourne lamb mixed with leaves of wild mint, the sweetness of honey, the autumnal beauty of puréed squash and the crunch of healthy pumpkin seeds is a wizard take on a British tradition.

Naturally the wine list homes in on Nutbourne wines, including Nutty Brut at £11 a fizzy glass, but for me the best manifestation of intoxicating patriotism is the drily aromatic Negroni made with Sacred sweet vermouth, Chase GB gin and Kamm Sons ginseng spirit.

Getting back to those teddy bears and their picnic, our evening meal starts at 6pm (the only slot available on a Saturday) when teddies get tired and there is an encouraging sprinkling of families with children seemingly happily eating up their wild fennel and oat moss.

We Review Rabbit

Occupying a rather enviable space, half way down the Kings Road, Rabbit is the second restaurant from the Gladwin Brothers (Richard, Oliver and Gregory).

On the Menu: Making the most of British, seasonal dishes, the menu starts with mouthfuls of crab beignets with squid ink emulsion before moving on to sharing plates (which are divided between slow and fast cooking) you’ll find: Baharat spiced cauliflower with mint yoghurt and pickled raisins; cod cheeks with braised salsify and langlois butter and red leg partridge with basil pesto, sloe jus, pickled girolles and dandelion.

I think I have quite possibly found one of my favourite dishes in London, something so simple, yet executed perfectly.

It was one of those dishes that is bittersweet to eat, each mouthful is so good and yet you know that with each mouthful you are almost finished.

In the fast cooking, you’ll find an excellent dish of fallow deer with a parsnip puree, earthy red cabbage ketchup and pear and garlic chives, a wonderful mix of fruity and meaty flavours.

Rabbit | Restaurants in Chelsea, London

A spin-off of the popular 'wild' food Notting Hill eatery 'Shed', with a focus on nose-to-tail eating.

We’re not sure what real country folk will make of Rabbit’s jokey, ‘rustic’ interior, but as Oliver, Richard and Gregory Gladwin hail from West Sussex farmland themselves, we imagine they didn’t have trouble sourcing the tractor bonnet decorating the bar, the corrugated iron panelling, or the back end of a fox mounted on a wall.

But to see it as a party venue does the cooking a disservice: the Gladwins – who also run The Shed in Notting Hill – can really cook.

Rabbit ravioli was the best dish, meat tender, pasta al dente but glossed with bone marrow, lovage pesto and wild mushrooms.

The Gladwins grew up at Nutbourne Vineyards, so the perfectly good Nutbourne wines are well-represented.