Was staying at the South Place, so it would be blasphemous to not try their signature restaurant being Michelin starred and all. I took on the tasting menu all the dishes are beautifully presented and delectable. The highlight being the yellowfin tuna tartare and the Yorkshire rhubarb. There was a minor mixup with the drinks order which was quickly corrected and unbeknown to me wasn't charged for any them. Top notch attentive service, warm ambiance and good food. Definitely worth a try for a special occasion.
It was a bit of a catch with old work mates and we thought we go for a good night out!
We decided on the tasting menu £90pp.
2 of us added the Wine flight £65 the others shared a bottle of Gavi de Gavi £37.
The food was amazing my 2 fave dishes where the wild boar ragu and roast Newlyn cod. I can’t forget the arancini snack to start that was omg! Ever dish I was thinking this is to Small as I’m enjoying it to much but I left very satisfied and wouldn’t want it any bigger.
Customer service was exceptional. The food was explained well. The first course we had to remind them for our wine but otherwise the service and explaining of wine was great. Our waiter for the evening was very amazing he was there when we needed him, it is nice to see someone so passionate for where they work and restaurant industry.
We also got to meet the executive Chef Gary Foulkes, and thanks for the complimentary creme caramel!
Thanks for a great night!
With so many quality restaurants in London, many with Michelin stars, it’s sometimes hard to decide on where to go. I mean, you generally expect a certain level of quality at Michelin starred restaurants, but I’ve been disappointed before. I’d been pigging out a little bit on my London trip, I guess that’s what you’d expect from a food blogger though, right? Well, I’ve been trying to balance our my super rich meals (usually French) with slightly more health options, which is why Angler at the South Place Hotel caught my eye.
The City of London really has been rather good to me lately. I keep going on about just how much this part of London has changed and how it is still becoming a foodie hub. Once a place where life only existed during working hours, the streets here are now filled with people at the weekends. And it’s all thanks to the new restaurants or the accolades they’ve managed. One of those leading the way is Angler. A one Michelin starred seafood focused restaurant looked after by head chef, Gary Foulkes. Even better still was I got to visit during National Seafood Weekend which ran between 7th – 14th October. It’s all part of a mission to make us eat more seafood, more often.
Angler is a lovely fish-centric restaurant under the D&D group located at the top floor of the boutique South Place Hotel. The restaurant holds a Michelin star which they earned under executive chef Tony Fleming. The reason for me visiting the restaurant however was because they had recently employed a new executive chef – Gary Foulkes who was previously Phil Howard’s right hand man at the Square. Gary had informed me during my last visit to the Square he was leaving to take up the job here at Angler. As head chef at the Square, Gary had a lot of input with regards to the creation of new dishes, more so than say the head chef at Claude Bosi’s Hibiscus. Given that I was a big fan of Gary’s cooking when he was at the Square, I was very keen to see what he could do out on his own. Interestingly enough, he has silently taken up his new role at Angler for a month without much fanfare – the restaurant website still lists Fleming as their executive chef!
South Place Hotel is a fantastic place to visit for a drink or meal in the City and is a around a 3 minute walk from Moorgate and Liverpool Street. The downstairs restaurant and bar area is beautiful but it does not stop there! There are bars on the first and second floors and also a rooftop terrace. My favourite bar is the Secret Garden bar.....
Ambiance: Cody and business environment
Service: as expected but quite attentive
Good: had a great English breakfast... Really yummy!!
Will come back.. Sure also because it's s great boutique hotel
Excellent service, creative and well balanced dishes. Location is ok, Moorgate. Recommended. Approximately £50.00 per head which is good for the quality of the food and the service
Okay, I suppose.... Just kiddin'. Everything absolutely first class. Even had the wine [Condrieu - liquid gold] awaiting for me at the table after I'd enquired if they had it in stock. I haven't had better food, wine or service anywhere. Best not look at the bill, but anyone with a few quid to spare could not have a better Fish Supper.
Awesome. I think this place has relatively recently won a michelin star.
It is thoroughly deserved. The food is superb. Service also excellent and the roof garden is lovely.
I went on a nice warm summer's day and simply didn't want to leave. I could have bankrupted myself.
My favourite restaurant experience in London in most recent times. The dedicated seafood menu and vast wine choice made for a very enjoyable evening. The langastine sausage was to die for!
Angler was a surprise recipient of a Michelin Star last September, a seafood restaurant quietly going about its business. It is based on the top floor of the South Place Hotel in Moorgate and attracts the local City workers judging from the clientele during our visit. The dining area is long and narrow and it is a shame that the window side currently overlooks a building site across the road so there is not much of a view. Anyway back to the purpose of this post and the blog, being the food. We were presented with a cheese nibble as we browsed the menus which reminded me of mini cheddars. For starters the sauteed langoustines jumped out at me, served with slow cooked lamb breast, asparagus tip and puree. The dish was beautifully presented and I couldn't help but notice the plate which was familiar and also used by Aiden Byrne at Manchester House. The langoustines were plump and the star of the dish, the lamb breast had a slow braised Asian style in turns of flavour. We ordered from b
Food And Drinks Noob
+3.5
Angler is a modern British seafood restaurant just off Moorgate station in London, part of the premium restaurant group D&D's portfolio and located on the top floor of the South Place Hotel. It gained a Michelin star in the 2014 guide and retained it in 2015.
Located on the 7th floor of the South Place Hotel in the heart of the City of London, Angler restaurant was for most, the surprise winner of a Michelin star last year. I say surprise winner because it came onto the scene quietly and not many people had heard of it when the stars were being handed out.
Memoirs Of A Metro Girl
+4.5
The service was absolutely brilliant, the dining room was comfortable and light and the food was delicious and presented beautifully. For the high quality of food, it is pretty good value, especially for The City. I’m not surprised to hear it was awarded a Michelin star, executive chef Tony Fleming and his team thoroughly deserve it.
London’s fish restaurant scene is going from strength to strength. Whether you’re looking for the sophistication of Corrigan’s or the lively atmosphere of Randall & Aubin , seafood is getting some fine treatment across the capital. And somewhere that really embodies this movement is the D&D restaurant group’s second starred restaurant, Angler. Set atop of the South Place Hotel, the elegant Angler dining room is long and slender, which creates a quiet atmosphere with a lovely outdoor terrace at the western end. Once you’re seated you’ll find an a la carte or tasting menu from which to choose. An inventive starter to go for is the octopus carparccio, which is as visually stunning as it is delicious. Incredibly thin slitters of chilli and paprika marinated octopus are laid down as a bed for an array of refreshing, Mediterranean morsels. Instant surprises are the dollops of lemon curd, the chucks of watermelon and tangy mango, which balance-out the salty deep-fried tentacles and the Sp
My scallop and lobster ravioli was delicious - the pasta was wafer-thin, but packed full of shellfish. The buerre blanc was pretty stellar - this is the point of Angler, classical techniques applied to the best possible ingredients.
There are times when I have a meal which is immaculate. Those times are few and far between, because normally something isn’t quite in order, even if it is simply the background music or a member of staff having a bad day rather than the food itself. When it happens, it is a joy, whether the food is a burger or the most perfect three star Michelin dinner. On this occasion, Angler at the recently opened South Place Hotel in the City, managed something that for me was quite perfect. And, it was also quite unexpected. My invitation to review the food at South Place Hotel crossed over from last year when I took a very quick look at the restaurants and asked if we could visit Angler, simply because I planned to take The-Hedonist , my pescatorian friend, and thought he’d appreciate the extensive range of fish dishes. If, like me, you find the buzz of the city oppressive and look for calm and tranquillity when you are dining, then do make the same choice regardless of your preference
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Angler is a relatively new seafood restaurant which deserves its Michelin star. The dishes are beautifully presented and very tasty. They have a good value dinner set menu (£35).
I, however, decided to go à la carte tonight, so I picked their signature starter, the yellowfin tuna tartare. I could have eaten a few portions, that's for sure - this was very good. My main was the halibut fillet, which came on a lasagna of shrimp with mushroom cream. The fish was perfectly cooked, and the shrimp lasagna was very good too!
For dessert, I went for the cheese cake - this was nicely deconstructed on the plate and came with olive oil ice cream - unusual but very good for an olive oil lover like me.
Service was professional, although one of the waitresses did pour tap water over my friend's sparkling water. Also, I felt a bit rushed with the drinks, especially at the beginning of the meal. They seemed to want to pour the wine and the bottled water very quickly (so we would order more?).
Overall, a good experience in a nice setting - worth a visit!
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This week has been a week of two big changes and a very yummy dinner (I’m thinking of one in particular, though there have been a few…)
I left my part-time job, working as a private chef in Mayfair, to focus my energy one my one-on-one cooking workshops and I moved house. Possibly two of the most stressful things to fit into one week, but also simultaneously pretty damn exciting.
Definitely worth raising a dirty martini to…
Having waved goodbye to Fulham green, I am now a proud dweller of a very cool south ken flat, right around the corner from The Good Life Eatery – hands down the only place in London to make a matcha latte worth getting out of bed for. I am very excited that I am also right next to La Cave a Fromage too. One of the most fantastic cheese shops in London. I am very excited for this new chapter, although living next to Bibendum too, I am slightly worried for my wallet! I predict many an oyster and champagne blog post in future…
Anyway back to the subject of London’s best… because this place really is one of them.
London really is a wondrous city. Just when you think you know it pretty well, you catch wind of a new hotspot. An event, a bar/restaurant you had never heard of… This week I discovered the seafood restaurant Angler. A true hidden gem, nestled onto of the super-swanky South Place Hotel.
The restaurant’s head chef Tony Fleming (a master of seafood in all forms) had us bamboozled with his un-intimidating, yet sophisticated yet menu. Pairing classic ingredients like mussels with saffron, or a langoustine and lobster twist of the british favourite – prawn cocktail, with more unusual combinations like scallop and wine-braised beef. Needless to say, we were spoilt for choice.
It was a great excuse to see my beautiful gal Belles (and her fab leopard print glasses), I lured her to dinner to celebrate my new move, and raise a glass to both of us in new jobs.
After about 20 minutes of deliberating between starters, umming and ahhing between mouthfuls off soft buttery crab meat with roe on toasted crostinis and light and airy cheese puffs (yes those are the technical term) we settled on four. Yes FOUR starters to share… Perhaps slightly excessive but undoubtedly called for after a long journey across London.
These were the Mixed Seafood Stuffed Ravioli, Octopus Carpaccio with Mango, Lemon Curd, Watermelon and Crispy Squid, Seared Scallops and Red Wine Beef with Butternut Squash Puree and the favourite (we mutually agreed) the Tuna Tartare with Chilli and Apple garnished with lovely Avocado Cream.
After all our faffing, and a martini or two down, we were both pretty peckish by the time the starters arrived. The plate didn’t stay pristine too long.
The Tuna was a slightly asian influenced dish with hints of sesame, apple and chilli. Never to much of either to detract from the quality of the tuna itself. Aside from my hankering for a little extra citrus coming through, Annabelle and I agreed we could have happily had this dish for both main course and pudding too.
The slow cooked beef and scallop was genius. The lightness of the scallop, giving great airiness of texture in the mouth, in contrast to the heavy meat. True the flavour was very much dominated by the wonderful glazed from the beef and the squash, but this had been cleverly compensated by a perfect 2/3rd scallop or beef ratio. Ensuring the subtle seafood flavour was never lost.
For main course Bells went for the fillet of Salmon with Kale, Bacon and dark, delicious (boeuf bourguignon inspired) Red Wine Sauce. The flavours were strong and earthy, the bacon and kale working wonders with the rice meatiness of the salmon. Wonderful flavours and beautiful pink salmon, but after so many starters it definitely pushed us greedy piggies to the limit.
I went for the fillet of Halibut with a Spring Vegetable Casserole and Smoked Salmon Sauce. I was glad they brought the sauce out separately. I found the lightly poached fillet pleasing and refreshing with only a light drizzle of sauce. The herbs really sang through and the fish was, displayed nothing short of cooking perfection.
After so much beautiful food we took a pass on pudding, got a few more martinis and a couple of fresh mint teas. The perfect digestif, to relax the stomach and aid digestion after such a big meal.
Of course when the petit fours came out, we couldn’t say no. The fudge was unexpectedly not fudge. Well not fudge as I know it… It was light, but less buttery and definitely less sweet then usual. The texture like a cross between halva and fudge. I was a big fan – surprisingly since I usually don’t like fudge. The little button of cakeyness was a pistachio soufflé. Light soft, delicious and wholeheartedly pleasing…. like the whole experience.
Need I say more…
For anyone who is as big of a fan of seafood as me, this is a place you much try. It is definitely the place for a special occasion dinner or even a drink, if you work nearby. It not cheap but it is worth the splurge! (It beats a pair of new boots any day!) The amazing terrace bar has amazing views of the city, not to mention THE best (and I don’t say this lightly) dirty martinis in the city that I have discovered thus far.
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This was my second meal at Angler, the flagship restaurant at the South Place hotel. A pair of cheese gougeres as nibbles were very nicely made (16/20). Shellfish velouté was a further amuse bouche, with a little sausage of crab as well as lobster, the stock having intense flavour (16/20). Seafood raviolo (£13.50) was enjoyable, with tender lobster amongst the ingredients used in the filling, the pasta well made (15/20). Langoustine and lobster cocktail (£18.50) with brown shrimps and baby lettuce was a sophisticated take on the classic prawn cocktail dish, the gem lettuce crisp, the sauce well-made and the shellfish tender (16/20).
Roast halibut (£22.50) with brown shrimp, capers, butter and parsley was less successful, the halibut slightly overcooked, and rather a lot of butter being used, though the capers did provide some contrast here; the dish was also a little salty (13/20). My main course was better, loin of pork (£22.50) with ravioli of pig cheek, served with asparagus and morels with a truffle duxelle. The loin of pork was pleasant but the little ravioli was lovely, the pork filling inside well seasoned and full of flavour. The asparagus and morels were carefully cooked and the truffle duxelle provided an extra texture and flavour (16/20). On the side triple cooked chips were good though still could have been crisper (15/20), whilst green beans were cooked accurately but were swimming in butter (14/20).
Hazelnut cake (£7) with salted caramel was served with lime and vanilla sorbet. I thought that the sorbet worked very well, its texture good and flavour refreshing, though the hazelnut cake seemed merely pleasant, bordering on dry (14/20).
Service was very good indeed, friendly and attentive. The bill came to £117 a head, albeit with some good wine. Water was £4 a bottle. Overall I found the meal a little less successful than my first visit, though still with much to like about it: an appealing menu with dishes designed to please rather than challenge, with some skill and care in the cooking marred only by one technical error with the fish dish. As an overall experience Angler is a most enjoyable place to have a meal.
Excellent lunch set menu with a reasonable price.
Some of the best food I’ve had in the UK. I was extremely impressed with Angler, I was a bit worried as our group had a set menu as I can be a bit picky but wow, I kept trying things and was just so impressed with how much flavor everything had. It was nice having the chef come explain every dish but we still had no idea what we were eating with some dishes. Partially because of his accent but also likely largely because of the different names and foods that we just don’t know.
If you are looking for THE FOOD AND DRINK EXPERIENCE this is the place. Amazing food, drinks, atmosphere and really friendly and professional staff.
Worthy every penny. In the heart of Central London in the top of the building. With a terrace also. Totally recommended.
It was a decent place but would’ve expected more it being a Michelin star establishment. The service was fantastic and the Quilty of the food was really good but overall I didn’t feel the experience was all that more exceptional compared to other “non-Michelin” restaurants I’ve visited.
We had the Travel Zoo voucher meal and it was absolutely amazing !
We were looked after the moment we entered the hotel for drinks and then for the whole meal in the restaurant.
The food excellent with the flavours oozing from every dish. Service was faultless and friendly and the Sommelier was helpful and very informative.
Definitely recommend this wonderful restaurant.
Thank you for a lovely experience
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I booked a ten-course tasting menu for my partner's birthday last week and we enjoyed most dishes. Their starters are to die for, although we were not too keen on the sea bass tartare - a bit "too raw". We also had a complimentary glass of Nyetimber sparkling wine each - which was a lovely gesture. The two desserts on the menu were definitely the highlight - we both loved them and the complimentary chocolates at the end of the meal wowed us even more.
The only downside of our dining experience was that I felt quite ill and had an upset stomach shortly after. I can't blame the food as my partner was fine, so clearly, something didn't agree with me.
The service was outstanding - our waiter (French, based on the accent) really looked after us and was rather entertaining.
You also get some nice views from the 7th floor of the restaurant. I would definitely inject more colours into the decor but I guess it's meant to be kept that fresh when the food is of such an amazing presentation and quality.
We had the tasting menus, paired with wine. The food was good, tasty and interesting. But it was not wow, it did not blow us away like other Michelin starred restuaurants did.
Had the tasting menu for lunch. Absolutely exceptional cooking from start to finish. Gary’s food shines with every dish- can’t recommend more, get yourselves down here. Impeccable service from Jo and Daniele. Thanks
so much we can’t wait to come back 👊
We had the tasting menu, with wine pairings, which I can't recommend highly enough!
It was our first visit to a Michelin restaurant, and all the staff made us feel at home quickly. The pace of dinner was great; with seven courses, we were left looking forward to the next course while never feeling overly full, but left not wanting more.
One of the surprising highlights was the bread and butter! The caramelised yeast and malt butter was stunning.
The wines offered a lovely selection of white pairings. The wine pairings were a great way to explore some wines for my guests, with there being a varied selection of tasting profiles.
The atmosphere was quiet for a Friday night in London. There were never more than five tables on at any one time.
A delightful tasting menu full of fresh seafood. I am especially happy with the citrus and herbal flavors that played complementary roles with the fish, crab, and langoustine.
By far the standout dish was the fresh codfish. It was fluffy, flaky, lightly buttery, and immaculate. Our dinner party was sure that it was the best cod fish we have tasted ever.
A very close call was the crab with lime sorbet. The flavors were just astounding and invigorating. It made me celebrate with giddiness on the spot.
Service was excellent with our party left with nothing wanting.
Fantastic place to eat. Food is incredible - fresh, and beautiful cooked, all showcasing the seafood. The dishes are all so unique and beautifully plated.
The service is impeccable. The only downside is that the table I was given was right next to the service station and kitchen, so it could get a bit noisy/disruptive.
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