Carousel
Modern European restaurant · Fitzrovia ·
Rotating international guest chefs & natural wine bar
Rotating international guest chefs & natural wine bar
"Carousel has cracked the eternal question of “how can you be a hot restaurant and also be timeless?” The answer is: have a rotation of impressive guest chefs from across the world in your buzzing open kitchen and also have a classic all-day neighbourhood wine bar up front. Cool and charming, it’s perfect for low-key birthdays, casual date nights, and catch-ups with that friend who’s really into the food scene." - sinead cranna, rianne shlebak, heidi lauth beasley, jake missing
"Carousel is a tale of two parts and they’re both fantastic. Up front is the intimate and zero side-eye natural wine bar—the kind of delightfully casual space Fitzrovia has needed for forever. At the back is the dining area where the chef residencies take place. Much like its namesake, this part of Carousel is always moving with a rotating line-up of chefs from around the world, that enable you to say smug things like “last night I ate a wild mushroom asado negro, hand-delivered by a celebrated ex-Noma chef from Copenhagen”. The pre-paid set menu will usually set you back around the £70 mark, but each residency is entirely unique. If you’re just in need of somewhere charming for a third date or a four-hour catch-up, the wine bar and its anchovy-smothered crisps have got you covered." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, rianne shlebak
"Imagine the grandeur of being able to say “actually I went to this wine bar in Fitzrovia and a chef visiting from Amsterdam handed me a dressed oyster”. That’s the power of Carousel, a warm but entirely cool wine bar with a rotating chef residency operation, where the servers will convince you to try a new zesty orange wine and you’ll actually like it." - jake missing, heidi lauth beasley, sinead cranna
"One day when we’re rich because we got confused and invested in Dogecoin thinking it was a pug help-to-buy scheme, we will get a beautiful flat in Fitzrovia and go to Carousel most nights. The main restaurant has a rotating line-up of guest chefs, but it’s their casual, cool wine bar up front that you and your pét-nat craving need to know about. Expect exciting low-intervention wines available by the glass or—why not—the bottle." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, daisy meager, sinead cranna
"Carousel has cracked the eternal question of “how can you be a hot hot hot restaurant and also be timeless?”. The answer is, have a rotation of impressive guest chefs from across the world in your buzzing open kitchen and also have a neighbourhood wine bar up front. Whichever one you go for, the atmosphere at the Fitzrovia spot hits the mark between cool and charming." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, sinead cranna, rianne shlebak
