Plateau

Plateau absorbs the length of Canada Place's fourth floor (take the lift to the right of Waitrose), huge windows affording unparalleled views of the area's dazzling modernity. It's a vast place, stretching from the buzzing bar (with its own menu) to the private dining rooms. The restaurant comes with the easy combination of formality and unstuffiness that characterise most operations opened by the Conran group (now D&D London). It is sleek, if sterile. The white and beige decor mixes with the formal office attire worn by the diners (at least during the week) to create a vision in monochrome. Happily, the food, which is at least as expensive as you'd expect, comes with more colour. A dressed crab starter was subtle, even mild, topped with strands of green apple and a little rye crisp; Loch Fyne smoked salmon arrived with a gentle if superfluous brioche. For mains, a gastropubby rotisserie poussin was served on a bed of spinach and garlic mash; it was decent, but the real treat was barbary duck with candied almonds, an unexpected but successful combination that more than made up for the accompanying cubes of slightly fibrous swede. One of Docklands' destination restaurants.

Services

Available for hire: Separate rooms for parties, seating 15 and 24
Child facilities: Babies and children welcome: high chairs; nappy-changing facilities
Disabled: toilet
Dress code: smart casual
Outdoor tables: 17, terrace

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