• The Landau

     
  • RUNNER-UP - BEST DESIGN

    Time Out Eating & Drinking awards 2008

    • 3 courses & a glass of Champagne: £32.50

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    • Lunch: 2 courses & a glass of wine £24.50

      Lunch: 2 courses & a glass of wine £26 (Offer valid until Sun Aug 2)

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  • David Collins’ interior, with its otherworldly brass fittings and olde worlde wood panelling, smacks of an HG Wells novel. It perfectly suits a restaurant where chef Andrew Turner presents British ingredients with molecular gastronomy touches. Customers can enjoy a view of Nash’s All Souls Church and the BBC’s Broadcasting House through regal windows curved around one end of the oval room. Beautiful breads, presented in a silver bowl, included carta di musica smeared with fresh pesto, a baguette glistening with olive oil and nourishing seeded varieties. On the side – a pat of butter and a little pile of pink Himalayan sea salt. Slow-cooked roast chicken had a good crisp skin, which also featured as a decorative shard to garnish pommes purées. This was accompanied by reassuringly seasonal veg including morels and green and white asparagus, plus a lovely mushroom cream sauce. Expect some confident flavour combinations, such as in our sweetly spiced pastry parcel of duck confit with orange segments, green asparagus and sun-dried tomatoes. However, the foie gras terrine with passion-fruit and vanilla sauce was not quite a harmonious match. Desserts are excellent. Most popular are the profiteroles filled with raspberry sorbet and cream and covered with dark Amedei chocolate sauce at the table; their caramel antenna ‘allows you to pick up the BBC’, staff joke, and the assembly looks like something from The Jetsons. A substantial summer pudding came with well-balanced milk and mint sorbet (we doubt there’s a better mint ice in London) and a clever blob of vanilla-flavoured milk, formed by dolloping the liquid in a seaweed bath. The wine list offers plenty in the £28-£35 bracket but nothing under £25 a bottle. We weren’t impressed by the wine waiter pointing us to pricey bins, though the wine he eventually persuaded us to order was delicious.

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  • The Langham, Portland Place, Fitzrovia, W1B 1JA
  • Area: Fitzrovia
  • Tel: 020 7965 0165
  • www.thelandau.com
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  • Category: Haute cuisine
  • Travel: Oxford Circus tube
  • Times: Breakfast served 7-10.30am Mon-Fri; 7-11am Sat, Sun. Lunch served 12.30-2.30pm, tea served 3-5pm daily. Dinner served 5.30-11pm Mon-Sat; 5.30-10pm Sun
  • Price: Main courses £19-£30. Set lunch £27.50 2 courses, 32.50 3 courses. Set dinner £57.50-£72.50 tasting menu
  • Credit cards: AmEx, DC, MC, V
  • Services:
    • Child facilities: Babies and children welcome: children's menu; high chairs
    • Disabled: toilet
    • Dress code: Smart casual
    • Function room: Separate room for parties, seats 16
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