• The Providores & Tapa Room

     
  • RUNNER-UP - BEST BREAKFAST

    Time Out Eating & Drinking awards 2008

  • If the test of a good restaurant is a negative answer to ‘could I cook this at home?’ then the Pacific Rim fusion at Providores passes with rocketing colours. It’s not just that Peter Gordon dazzles with such epicurean obscurities as barrel-aged Banyuls vinegar, from a French seaside town better known for its fortified wines; it’s also that some produce is imported from his native New Zealand and is a rarity in London, as is the case with kumara (a uniquely flavoured sweet potato). Factor-in that dishes – even starters – are so complicated their descriptions snake down several lines of the menu, and you could feel overwhelmed. Fortunately, the flavours work in blissful harmony: witness the robust wild hare fillet, accompanied by a creamy cabbage purée with toasted walnuts, goat’s cheese and tangy pomegranate. Cocktails are commendable, the wine list a New Zealand tour de force. In the past, service has been excellent, but this time staff were unsmiling – a small slip, perhaps, yet with mains around £25 and elbow room at a premium, no lapses should be tolerated. The ground-floor Tapa Room, tailored to extravagant breakfasting and exuberant evening drinks, was quieter than usual too.

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  1. Posted by ralf Graeser on 08 Oct 2008 22:59

    A great venue to escape the business of the streets and/or the crowded downstairs.
    However the setting of the upstairs floor is refreshingly tranquil, the staff and its service appear anxiously disarming.
    A true welcoming is missing, which is a pity as the menu offers a lot to discover..
    All in all we will have to rethink to choose this place again as the arts of fine added value seem to be a well-hidden secret to the staff serving deliciously composed food.
    Nevertheless it always counts more with whom you are with.

  2. Posted by Ryan on 06 Oct 2008 09:27

    In the upstairs Providores room, the menu was delightfully complex and original, while the food was quite palatable. However, the service was so consistently discourteous and error-prone that it overshadowed the meal. It is not the place you would want to take a date or expect to have a feel-good, welcoming meal at.

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  • 109 Marylebone High Street, Marylebone, W1U 4RX
  • Area: Marylebone
  • Tel: 020 7935 6175
  • www.theprovidores.co.uk
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  • Category: International
  • Travel: Baker Street or Bond Street tube
  • Times: The Providores Lunch served noon-2.45pm daily. Dinner served 6-10.30pm Mon-Sat; 6-10pm Sun. Tapa Room Breakfast served 9-11.30am Mon-Fri; 10am-3pm Sat, Sun. Meals served noon-10.30pm Mon-Fri; 4-10.30pm Sat; 4-10pm Sun
  • Price: The Providores Main courses (lunch) £18-£26. Set menu (dinner) £29 2 courses, £42 3 courses, £52 4 courses, £60 5 courses. Cover (lunch Sat, Sun) £1.50. Tapa Room Tapas £2-£14.40
  • Credit cards: AmEx, MC, V
  • Services:
    • Child facilities: Babies and children welcome: high chairs
    • Disabled: toilet
    • Outdoor tables: 2, pavement
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