Eat Out London!The White Onion
“Flavoursome classic French cooking has clever modern touches. Great value set lunch and a terrific selection of wine by the glass and carafe” Michelin Guide 2018 Serving accessible contemporary French cuisine since 2015, The White Onion is a neighbourhood restaurant in the heart of Wimbledon Village.
The White Onion
Great value set lunch and a terrific selection of wine by the glass and carafe” Michelin Guide 2018 Serving accessible contemporary French cuisine since 2015, The White Onion welcomes Wimbledon visitors and locals alike, from family dinners, business lunches or simply dinner a deux in a warm but relaxed atmosphere.
Our international wine list is courtesy of Pedro Borges, always attentive to new wine discoveries.
The wine list offers great value for money and showcases a wide variety of wines from different regions of the globe.
We host a series of wine pairing dinners in our gorgeous private room throughout the year exploring different regions, stay tuned to our website and sign up to our newsletter.
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Fay Maschler reviews the The White Onion: another winner in SW19 ...
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In that the chef, young Frederic Duval who has come from The French Table, goes to great lengths to garnish, titivate, punctuate (commas and full stops of sauces) and elaborate, it is more than just dinner, it is TV cooking competition effort, an approach that needs a shouty person chivvying the kitchen along.
Complex: honey roast quail with pistachio purée, celeriac remoulade and quail eggs (Picture: Adrian Lourie) The first strawberry of Wimbledon shows up as a garnish for duo of foie gras arranged on an oblong of slate, with at one end a shallow dish of foie gras brulée and at the other the liver flash-fried and served on toasted brioche with a trickle of sweet sauce.
The flavours of orange and cardamom in what otherwise could be a Hollandaise are too sweet, souky and all-enveloping for four spears of white asparagus and what is described as crispy brioche — crispy is not a word except when attached to duck on a Chinese menu — has gone soggy in the egg mimosa (sieved yolk, chopped white) topping.
Half a quail is served honey-roasted with pistachio purée, celeriac remoulade, “crispy” quail egg (like a tiny Scotch egg) and chicken jus.
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The White Onion, London, review - Telegraph
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The texture was a bit granular for my taste, but the flavour was good.
'As the fancy place in the fancy village, they’re set on making everything dead fancy' (MARK WHITFIELD) I was not so wowed, indeed I would go as far as to say I was unwowed, by the trio of pork (£19.20).
A tranche of pork belly was competently cooked; a miniature burger contained a quite salty and unsubtle minced-pork pattie, a bit of foie gras for no reason I could make out, and a smear of tomato purée underneath the bun, apparently devised by a person who didn’t understand the core properties of bread, viz, that it goes soggy when you put something wet underneath it.
This idea was recycled for JB’s delice of raspberry and white chocolate (£7), which was far better than my cake, but a bit “wedding buffet”.
This is the object lesson in restaurant stuckness: as the fancy place in the fancy village, they’re set on making everything dead fancy.
The White Onion | Restaurants in Wimbledon Village, London
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The White Onion is SW19’s newest destination restaurant.
From the courteous service to the recitation of the day’s vegetarian dishes, you can tell The White Onion’s no arriviste.
A starter of French white asparagus is served with a butter sauce flavoured with orange and cardamom.
A French accent was added to the British meat with little dabs of garlic emulsion, smoked aubergine purée and a jus flavoured with a hint of lavender.
But the whole of Wimbledon fortnight is a special occasion for The White Onion, as the opening hours are extended to lunch and dinner every day except Sundays.