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Passage Café

12 Jerusalem Passage, EC1V 4JP Full details & map

Bistro: French

Time Out says 5 Users say 5/5 Rate it

By Time Out Editors Posted: Oct 24 2011

This tiny yet ambitious venue offers a French neighbourhood feel in central London. Intimate dining is guaranteed in the small, candlelit interior decorated with art deco posters. The French owners have decided to drop their savoury crêpes and now focus solely on a bistro-style menu - with all mains costing £12.95, starters £6.50 and puds £5.

An expertly presented starter of beetroot-cured salmon came with a quenelle of horseradish cream and miniature pieces of pickled vegetables. Pan-fried gnocchi were crisp on the outside, giving way to a creamy interior flavoured with herbes de provence, aptly complementing the Mediterranean vegetables that came with them. Our portion was on the small side, though. Calf's liver arrived a tad too pink for our taste, and an intense flavour of sage overpowered the onion and sultana raviolo.

Nevertheless, the innovative French cooking convinced overall, and puddings continue the theme: baked chocolate soup with black pepper ice-cream, for instance.

Tags: European, French, Something different, Central, City, Budget, Snack bar/Fast food, Restaurant, Bistro

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Passage Café details

Address

Passage Café

12 Jerusalem Passage EC1V 4JP

Transport Farringdon tube/rail

Telephone

020 3217 0090

Passage Café website

Lunch served noon-4pm Tue-Fri. Dinner served 6pm-midnight Tue-Fri; 5-11pm Sat

Main courses £12.95

Credit cards AmEx, MC, V

Facilities

Tables outdoors ( 2, pavement ), Babies and children admitted, Available for hire, Takeaway service

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Comments & ratings 5/5 (Average of 5 ratings)

By Tobias - Feb 24 2012

5/5

At the Passage Café, they offer French food in their own perfectly developed way. The service is superb; personal yet professional, and then they let you get away with paying very little for it. Too, great wines from independent chateau's come at half price! This place is exactly what London should have more of. An independent business, which delivers a wonderful dining experience (based on 5-6 visits over last 2 years)

The Time Out review above doesn't do the place justice - just ignore it - go there, have 3 courses and a bottle of wine with someone you like. You will regret not having discovered it earlier and leave thinking about when you can come back.

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By Terry - Dec 22 2011

5/5

Ignore the sniffy Time Out review above - this restaurant is a little gem.
lovely range of authentic Normandy ciders too, at about half the price of St John down the road.

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By Mateo Martinez - Oct 11 2011

5/5

Love the food and the atmosphere one of my favourit restaurant in London

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By Beony - May 10 2011

5/5

Very cute little bistro with amazing value. The food is always excellent and changes regularly enough to keep things interesting. You have to try the chocolate soup with Sichuan pepper ice-cream. It will blow your mind!