St John Restaurant Will Bring Modern British Menu to Marylebone | Eater London

"Opening on Marylebone Lane on Wednesday 19 October, this new outpost will operate as both a wine bar and dining room with an all‑day menu inspired by Parisian and Tuscan wine‑bar culture — a convivial, all-hours spot for coffee, tartines, champagne with doughnuts, and three-course meals. Breakfast offerings will come from the group's Bermondsey bakery on Druid Street, supplying its well-known doughnuts, breads and granola served with yoghurt and seasonal poached fruit, and the between-breakfast-and-lunch service even encourages champagne alongside fruit, custard or chocolate doughnuts. The lunch service will transplant the daily changing blackboard tradition of small, shareable plates from the original Clerkenwell site and Bread and Wine, with the menu overseen by Fergus Henderson and chef‑director Jonathan Woolway; it will be driven by and paired to a celebrated wine list that highlights the group's own Minervois wines, white‑label French bottlings and long‑standing vigneron relationships alongside cuvées from exciting new winemakers. Expect a seasonal, local focus drawn from the group's classic repertoire but with cheeky luxury touches — including a possible hint of caviar — and a new savory signature: deep-fried, croquette-like stubbies of Welsh rarebit. The venue signals the group's first standalone restaurant opening since 2015 and a renewed emphasis on wine within its London portfolio, while retaining traditions such as the Clerkenwell 'elevenses' pairing of caraway seed cake and Madeira." - Adam Coghlan