Restaurants

Reviews of London restaurants plus great special offers

Home Features Offers Top 50 Your Favourites New Openings

Search over 2,500 restaurants

Smiths of Smithfield

67-77 Charterhouse Street
EC1M 6HJ Map
Farringdon
020 7251 7950
Venue's website

Category: Modern European
Travel: Barbican tube/Farringdon tube/rail
Wine Rooms Open/dinner served 5.30-10.30pm Mon-Wed; 5.30pm-1.30am Thur-Sat. Dining Room Lunch served noon-2.45pm Mon-Fri. Dinner served 6-10.45 pm Mon-Sat. Ground-floor bar/café Open/meals served 7am-4.30pm Mon-Fri; 9.30am-5pm Sat, Sun
Wine Rooms Main courses £10-£28. Dining Room Main courses £11-£12.50. Ground-floor bar/café Main courses £4-£7.50
Credit cards: All AmEx, DC, MC, V

User ratings

Ambience
Service
Value for money
Food
Overall

Need inspiration?

Most popular reviews
Add to your favourite Restaurants & bars  Print this page

Smiths of Smithfield


The extraordinary popularity of John Torode’s four-floor warehouse is testament to its reliability. No matter how busy it gets, standards remain constant. The ground floor holds a bar perpetually packed with a democratic mix of City workers and night owls, its fever-pitch vibe at odds with the more demure British restaurant, Top Floor. The first floor has recently been converted into ‘Wine Rooms’, offering small and big plates and wines, but the hub of the operation remains the second-floor Dining Room, its bare-brick walls and raucous acoustics offering an ad-agency approximation of kinetic urban style. Repeated visits have taught us a few fail-safe lessons, not least that eating fresh pays dividends. For starters, simple but beautiful asparagus was more successful than uninspiring Portuguese saltcod fritters. For mains, the excellent burgers remain better bets than the cheap-tasting steaks. We also enjoyed a characterful risotto made with truffled leeks and jerusalem artichokes. The wine list contains a few cheapies, but you’ll need to spend at least £20 to get anything of substance. Table service, as usual, was excellent; on a packed Saturday night, our waitress made a very difficult job look easy.

Time Out Eating & Drinking Guide 2008


Send to a friend

Services:

Child facilities: Babies and children welcome (restaurant): high chairs
Disabled: toilet
Entertainment: DJs 7pm Thur-Sat ground floor
Function room: Separate room for parties, seats 26
Outdoor tables: 4, pavement; 6, terrace


See other:




Latest user reviews

over priced boring menu that has not changed in 2 years. Chips soggy !!!!
Anonymous  Feb 25 2008

Tell us what you think - Review this restaurant





More ways to enjoy Time Out