Eat Out London!Galvin La Chapelle
Galvin La Chapelle, St. Botolph's Hall in Spital Square London E1, fine dining in london at Michelin star French restaurant, by Chris and Jeff Galvin.
La Chapelle, French Michelin star restaurant St. Botolph's Hall London
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La Chapelle is the third restaurant to be opened by acclaimed chef brothers Chris and Jeff Galvin, La Chapelle has had praise heaped upon it from the very beginning winning no less than 8 top restaurant awards in its first year including AA London Restaurant of the Year and Tatler Magazine Restaurant of the Year.
Chef Patron Jeff Galvin consistently provides a menu of polished French cuisine underpinned by a classical base and given a light modern gloss.
The restaurant is one of the few restaurants in London to hold a vertical list of Hermitage La Chapelle wines.
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Working Lunch review: Galvin La Chapelle in Spital Square serves ...
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It may not boast the views of Galvin at Windows or the modern glamour of Galvin at The Athenaeum, but there’s an understated rustic charm about La Chapelle that fits right into its ancient surroundings.
A few dishes have gained cult status, not least the Dorset crab lasagne.
Refreshingly unstuffy, this is modern French cuisine in a classically English setting.
Nowhere else in Spitalfields can touch it for fine dining.
Pop next door to Galvin Hop, a gastropub with outdoor seating, fresh Czech beer on draught and a truffle mustard sausage roll that’s the stuff of feverish meat dreams.
Galvin La Chapelle restaurant review 2010 February London ...
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Galvin La Chapelle is in a really striking building, the Victorian St Bidolph’s Hall, originally a girl’s school that had become neglected, but is now beautifully restored.
The excellent Mas de Daumas Gassac 1997 red was listed at a tolerable £99 given its retail price of around £43; long gone are the days when I used to buy this lovely wine for around £8 before it was “discovered”.
As is fitting given the restaurant’s name, Hermitage La Chapelle is highlighted with an extensive range of vintages including the great 1961, though this costly wine is likely to appeal only to investment bankers celebrating a vast deal.
Despite a trail of waiters scurrying past, all attempts to get attention failed until my dining companion, anxious to get the last train home, had to resort to physically tapping a waitress on the arm as she sailed past.
Overall Galvin La Chapelle is sure to be highly successful, with an appealing menu of capably cooked dishes in a genuinely beautiful dining room.
Restaurant review: Galvin La Chapelle - Business Traveller – The ...
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This was a warm Friday lunchtime in May, and from Liverpool Street and past Broadgate Circus, office workers were out for lunch, queuing out of sandwich shops, gathering in every sun spot outside pubs and bars, or strolling about in the large paved area north of Spitalfields market.
The La Chapelle building is to the north east of the market, and has several entrances off Spital Square.
I obviously came in the wrong one around the back by walking through a covered terrace area and straight into the restaurant.
From the outside the Chapelle simply looks like on the many old buildings retained during the widespread redevelopment of the area over the last decade, but inside it’s a very arresting renovation, with a huge high ceiling and a wooden roof structure like the inside of an upturned boat.
There are three parts to the restaurant – the main hall, a cocktail bar in the old Curate’s House and an all-day café that I had inadvertently walked through to enter the restaurant.
Galvin La Chapelle, 35 Spital Square, London E1 | The Independent
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The Galvins' first joint venture, after successful solo careers in some of London's finest kitchens, was Galvin Bistrot de Luxe, an instant hit when it opened on Baker Street in 2005.
Now the brothers, with other family members, have opened Galvin La Chapelle, their most ambitious venture to date; a true destination restaurant which replicates the bustling congeniality of Bistrot de Luxe in a setting with all the wow factor of Windows.
Unlike most City restaurants, which have a slightly muted and apologetic atmosphere on a Saturday night, La Chapelle crackles with excitement and discreet glamour.
La Chapelle, like the Bistrot de Luxe, is a restaurant I know I will happily return to.
Around £45 a head before wine and service Tipping policy: “Service charge is 12.5 per cent discretionary, of which 100 per cent goes to the staff; all tips go to the staff” This seafood restaurant serves super-fresh fruits de mer or mains like gilt-head bream with brown shrimps.
London restaurant guide: Galvin La Chapelle - Telegraph
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I idly asked my companion, T, of Chris and Jeff Galvin ’s new place, Galvin La Chapelle .
The whole plate was so beautiful you didn’t want to eat it, with the subtle, bloody pink of the meat and the dressing a gorgeous amber.
I had the veal cheek (£17.50) with a beautiful, incredibly French (read: more butter than potato) mash and a 'zingara’ dressing, which is made of ham, tongue, mushrooms and truffles.
Fresh in my mind was a pleasing brush I had with this Craddock-era pudding, so I can tell you for definite that, although yeast-based, it’s not meant to taste like a bread roll you just happened to find at the bottom of a bottle of rum.
In a 15th-century building with rough stone walls and tapestries, James and Christopher Tanner’s restaurant celebrates West Country produce, such as Exmoor red-legged partridge, with choux potatoes and butternut squash (£39 for three courses) Brothers Andrew and Simon Green run this neighbourhood restaurant, serving a daily changing menu that might feature roast pheasant with a savoy-cabbage faggot, juniper and thyme (£27.50 for three courses) Sam and Eddie Hart have revived this 80-year-old Soho restaurant and serve such classic British dishes as whitebait, oysters, steaks and lobster, alongside hearty seasonal dishes – try the rabbit pie with cavolo nero (£18.90)