Reviews Bread Street Kitchen & Bar - St Paul's

Amazing place in London. I love the food. can’t wait to come back here again. Congratulations to the staff.

The food was fantastic. I had a ribeye steak , it was very flavourful and good. I also ordered the beef wellington, the presentation was fantastic and it tasted great. Their selection of drinks is very good. The staff are polite and cooperative.

Bread Street Kitchen is a nice little spot in St Pauls. Owned by Gordon Ramsay and straight opposite Jamie Oliver's Barbecoa. With these two right beside each other you feel spoilt for choice. We opted for Gordon's as we know one of the Managers and Waitresses from working other places. Without them being there, there place would be friendly. It is a grand space with high ceilings, ornate design, very airy and a massive bar offering. It is over a first floor and ground floor. Nice little areas inside to set up in. The downstairs, with a one chair corner for some alone time as you come up the stairs. The restaurant area, bar top and bar area. The bartenders have good cocktail knowledge and like to deliver beyond what is on the menu, in fact they love the idea of creating something bespoke for you. We didn't have food on this occasion, but this is definitely a good spot for some mid week drinks as it doesn't get to mad busy.

One New Change is worth visiting for its fabulous roof terrace view of St. Paul’s Cathedral and the London skyline. It’s free admission to enjoy this viewing platform and there’s a variety of drinking and/or dining experiences to choose from including Gordon Ramsay’s Bread Street Kitchen inside the mall. A fine dining experience, Bread Street Kitchen serves high quality food that excites and won't break the bank...

One amazing restaurant from the Super Chef Gordon Ramsay. In a recent trip to London, I wanted to visit one of Ramsay's restaurants and I chose carefully, That means, I wanted to visit one with a more attractive menu, without a specific type of food, but also without being the top of the cream since it would probably be out of my budget.

As a starter, we chose a Spicy Tuna Tartare, which was simply amazing. One of the best tartares I've ever tried, and I've tried many, which says it all, and the portion is big enough for two people to share.

To combine with the main dishes, we ordered the Macaroni Cheese with garlic roasted crumbs. Another good choice. I can even say that in a bigger portion, it could be a good pasta dish.

Regarding main dishes, we had a good and a not so good choice: Starting with the good one, Pork Belly with Apple Sauce, it was on the point. Crunchy and tasty. The other one, we didn't realize it was a Hamburguer when we ordered. It was good, but not what we thought we were asking.

The dessert we ordered was Chocolate Fondant with Ice Cream. Even without being a creative dessert, it's flavour could be any better.
A very good restaurant, indeed.

I mean. I was dying to go to one of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants! And this was my first. It was great, the service was amazing. I even got a dessert that I didn't order with 'Happy Birthday' written on it! It was a great experience, and the food, oh the food! The food is amazing!

Love your.... Onion soup!!!

Gordon Ramsey’s restaurant and bar, Bread Street Kitchen is much bigger than it looks from the outside. After climbing up the winding stairs, you’ll find yourself in a large, airy room with an open kitchen, lighted wine balcony and plenty of seating. The atmosphere was relaxed yet still buzzing on a Friday night.

A great restaurant with a good atmosphere and menu, will definitely go back, if not just for the salt and pepper squid which is on the bar menu and very addictive! (This was one of the canapés from previous).

Well that's twice now I've eaten so much food at Bread St Kitchen that I was close to vomiting through sheer gluttony. I didn't love Bread St Kitchen the first time round, but for Christmas, Duncan's parents got him a £150 gift voucher to use at any of his restaurants. This was a particularly thoughtful gift as it meant I got a share of it. For Christmas, my parents got me a Christmas card that said words to the effect 'Merry Christmas, we can't wait till you come back to Australia'. Great. Thanks parents. So in summary, I got nothing, Duncan had something. Once we left the house, it had started to snow. It took forever to walk to Old Street. This was purely my fault; not the snows. I love snow. I pretty much had to be dragged to the station because I kept stopping to marvel at the snow. Once we arrived, we were lead to a table right near the entrance, directly in front of the kitchen. Not a great table, and to be honest, we probably could have requested to be moved, but I'm still pre

The beef was so tender, so flavoursome, and so perfectly season that I was in the state of shock. It was an aphrodisiac, it was orgasmic.. it was just wow. And thats all I have to say.

All-in-all, Bread Street Kitchen is a pretty impressive package. The food's good - not amazing, but nor is it trying to be, the prices while high - three courses, drinks and service will easily reach £50-ish - won't bother the target customer (younger, not-quite-so-stratospherically-salaried City suits) and the design really is great fun.

Top. Espaço moderno com ambiente agradável, faz lembrar NY. Adoro a carta de vinhos. Portugal também está representado. O serviço é bom. Um pouco barulhento, mas quem é que se importa?! ;-)

A great variety of wine choice, superb advices from waiter which one goes better with your food. Meat is perfect, even children love it. Very child friendly, love round tables, make the atmosphere more private.

Location:
Born just 22 days before my visit (ok so it took over a year to open) Bread Street Kitchen is the latest Gordon Ramsey outpost, situated in One New Change.

Spread out over two floors (the lower floor is small and has a cafe feel, and other one school canteen cum french bistro style cavern), every element of design at BSK has been nailed in painstaking detail. The array of pink-tinted victorian glass lampshade chandaliers. Angle poise lamps perched menacingly around the edges, hybrid bric-a-brac pieces welded together to make other lamps (we were next to a lathed engine part that had been welded to some plumbing, sprouting lightbulbs out of their taps - I kid you not).

I'd tweeted Executive Chef Simon Gregory (@chefgregory01) earlier in the week to say we'd be coming in, and once we arrived he came over to talk a little bit about the concept and the food. He'd been working 22 days straight to bed everything down, and with 170 booked in for a Tuesday lunchtime, he was comfortable BSK was on the right track. The team cooking are a mix of people from a number of GR's other restaurants, as well as The Ivy and Hawksmoor, so I was pretty excited about the food we'd be getting.

Simon sent us several starters out to whet our palettes, which were pretty special. A nutty, creamy Atlantic crab cocktail with celariac, and a subtle stone bass finished with a sprinkles of ground seaweed and zested wasabi. Both were absolutely delicious. The was, however, only one thing on my dining companion 'the dame' and my minds - the Bread Street Kitchen Short Rib Burger - so how did it fare?

Price:
Short rib burger - £11.50.
Hand-cut chips - £3.50.
Cabbage and red onion coleslaw - £3.50.

Presentation:
Impressive. This burger poses imperiously on the plate. It dominates the space around it. It's big, it's heavy, it cheekily shows a bit of what might lie underneath. If it were a lady, it would be less geisha, and more glamour.

A perfectly polished metal beaker of dark golden hand-cut chips and ramekin side of creamy coleslaw arrive separately.

Toppings:
Perfectly harmonious. Every element in this burger has its exact place. The slightly spicy tomato ketchup is a reduction of tomato, star anise and peppers, pureed and applied liberally on top of the cheese, and it sets off the rich, fatty flavours of the rest of the burger magnificently. The cheese was changed to Ogleshield (from the usual Bermondsey Frier) and the thick, salty, slightly melted wedge added dimension (along with the sliced pickles) to a burger that gave up little resistance to a determined jaw. Underneath the burger lay a chopped iceburg 'slaw, mixed with garlic and mustard mayonnaise.

Meat:
Bloody great. The patty is made up of of a combination of short rib, chuck and beef fat in a 50%, 30%, 20% ratio. This translates into a pretty juicy burger. The meat is coarsely minced, and then hand-formed into the 8oz-ish patties that go between the buns. With the high short rib content, the taste is creamy and almost veal-like, with huge amounts of satisfying juice and fat, yet in spite of the light beef flavours, they are complemented by the acidity in the cheese, spicy ketchup and mustard mayonnaise iceburg 'slaw.

As this burger oozes and gushes juice down my chin and hands, I'm thinking, this burger is almost TOO wet and juicy...but it's a fleeting thought.

Bun:
Excellent. This is the Miller's brioche bun, and I have come to the conclusion that it is close to indestructible. Given the massive amounts of juice oozing from the patty soaking the plate, my fingers, and my chin, you would be forgiven for thinking this bun would collapse under the weight of the tidal wave of liquid gushing forth. Tested at depths of 300m under the sea (true story*) this bun has been built to withstand the most serious of tests.

As an aside, it turns out Gordon Ramsey restaurants have been using this same Miller's brioche bun since 2003 when they first put their veal and fois gras burger on the menu at another well known outpost. 
*not a true story

Accessories:
Very good. Ordered separately off the sides menu are hand-cut chips, and these are some of the tastiest chips I've had in a while. Cooked almost like roast potatoes, the outsides of the chips are deep golden and have a firm, slightly chewy crunch to them. Once your through the skin, the centre is soft and fluffy. The portion looks slightly mean, but between two of us, we only just finished them (and I've eaten three burgers in one sitting before...). The coleslaw is creamy and crunchy.

Overall rating: 9.5/10
This burger execution has all the hallmarks of a great understanding about how the various element of a burger work together in perfect harmony. Creamy, fatty meat patties offset by spicy tomato ketchup. Ogleshield cheese adding structure to the soft, loose ground beef, Mustard and garlic mayonnaise moreishly blending with the juice from the patties. At £11.50, this is a great burger at a great price.

Get your arse to Bread Street Kitchen, as this burger goes straight into my 'Top 5 Best Burgers in London' list.

After the burgers were well and truly dispatched, this was the point any normal person would have stopped, but not 'the dame' and I. Simon wanted us to try a couple of the signature desserts that were screaming out at us from the pudding menu so, in the words of Yoda, "ate some more, we did." And it was awesome.

Good

I went here at Christmas with some work colleagues and had such a wonderful evening. Lovely modern and elegant decor. A great wine list with a British White wine on the menu which is always great to see.
Had the scallops to start and wasn't disappointed, they were fantastic.
Sea bream was amazing. Haven't had fish that good in a long time and a really great portion size. I ordered vegetables for the table but we didn't really need them.
Will definitely be coming back here and would recommend highly for a work do or a date!

I've been here a few times with mixed results. The cocktails here are fantastic, as is the venue, but unfortunately the food doesn't always quite match up.

I've had steak here a few times and on one occasion it was over-cooked, a cardinal sin for this sort of price, and the pork belly starter was a bit rubbery. Also some of their flavour combinations do not work at least for my taste buds.

However the crowning glory, if you can get it as availability seems to be scarce, is the dessert tasting menu. If you're a dessert fan then I would recommend visiting purely to give it a try as each dish whilst small is perfectly formed - the sticky toffee pudding, salted caramel brownie and passionfruit cheesecake in particular happily spring to mind.

Looking for breakfast around St Paul’s and we stumbled across Bread Street Kitchen, we had no idea that it was a Gordon Ramsey joint! The decor was amazing and the staff were very friendly and attentive. The food was spectacular, the English Muffins were fresh, light and crispy. The Eggs Royale were by far the best I’ve ever had. The menu was strange, I found it weird that you HAD to have two course on the brunch menu. And the only choice of second courses was dessert, which felt strange at 10:30AM. Although once the Tropical Fruit Sundae arrived all my issues with this menu disappeared. It was sensational. It was obviously expensive, but by the time we sat down and realised it was a Gordon Ramsey restaurant there was no turning back. A great experience nonetheless.

A superb evening at Bread Street Kitchen from start to finish. As someone who lives in London and eats out often, I rarely go out of my way to leave a review. However, the food, ambiance and staff at Bread Street Kitchen and Bar were beyond excellent. As soon as my friend and I entered the restaurant, a friendly, smiley gentleman named Rafael, (who said he was the Guest Relations Manager) welcomed us, effortlessly making conversation - a thoughtful touch was that he offered us the choice of two tables, either by the window or more a central seating area. We chose to sit by the window where Rafael attentively asked if he could get us any drinks. Once drinks were ordered, a lovely waitress whose name I have unfortunately forgotten, greeted us and asked if there were any dietary requirements - she helped me navigate through the menu as I mentioned that I was vegetarian. From what started as a standard 1 course meal with a friend, ended in a 3 course feast. The fresh menu selection, coupled with the wonderful waitresses great recommendations, led to my friend and I having a table full of food, which did not disappoint. And lastly, Rafael, who initially welcomed us, personally delivered our desserts. A superb evening. A restaurant that has a family feel, yet with top class food and a great atmosphere. I will definitely be eating here again.

Alice and the team were wonderful. Such warm, friendly, knowledgeable service. Really took care over everything and made us feel welcomed and relaxed. The food in the 'Street Pod' was beautiful. A very nicely done tasting menu with more than enough to satisfy two adults. Highly, highly recommend.

Visited on a Sunday and had the roast pork dinner. It was really beautiful, no complaints. My mum had the sea bream , which could have done with some potatoes with but she enjoyed it. My daughter had Mac n cheese which she also enjoyed. Chocolate fondant for dessert which was just perfect. The negatives were that when making the booking, the restaurant was informed it was my daughters birthday but when she received her brownie (which was just a whack of cold brownie) there was no effort made to make her day special. Also felt our waiter was looking down his nose at us, with my daughter commenting that she seen him look me up and down when I stood to use the bathroom. Overall, food was good. Effort from the floor staff let it down.

We went here while on vacation in London. Highly recommended, the food was incredible and the drinks were perfectly crafted. It was odd that at 6pm on a Friday night the restaurant was empty though. Definitely try the beef Wellington.