Nutshell

Restaurant · Covent Garden

Nutshell

Restaurant · Covent Garden

30 St Martin's Ln, London WC2N 4ER, United Kingdom

Highlights

This stylish spot brilliantly reinterprets classic Iranian fare with a rotating menu and a chic vibe, making it a must-visit for fans of modern cuisine.

30 St Martin's Ln, London WC2N 4ER, United Kingdom Get directions

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@infatuation

"This Iranian spot in Covent Garden has an enticing Nowruz feast box for two on offer. Each box includes kuku sabzi, pan fried chalk stream river trout, saffron tahchin, and Iranian baghlava, with a choice to add things like bazaar bread, beetroot borani, and kofte tabrizi. Order soon to get it delivered anywhere in the UK before the 20th." - Rianne Shlebak

Persian Restaurants, Specialty Supermarkets, & Meal Kits For Nowruz At Home - London - The Infatuation

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@eater

"Saudi-born owners Mohammad Paknejad and Marwa Alkhalaf bring their take on Iranian regional cooking. Currently offering a winter menu and a selection of feast boxes for two or four, which are to be finished off at home via Slerp for local and nationwide delivery. Expect crispy confit duck, bazaar bread, beetroot bohrani and lamb kofte." - Angela Hui

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@infatuation

"Nutshell is a cute restaurant. It’s got gold detailing, pink seating, and the kind of tiling that takes up several megabytes of data in your photo folder after a summer holiday. The food is at its best in the mezze section: brik sambusach are crispy and light, the smoky aubergine dip is great alone and even better piled onto warm bread. Bigger plates are a little so-so, but the kofte tabrizi, a rice-stuffed meatball, isn’t. It’s great. All in all it’s a solid spot in central, especially if you aren’t looking for anything too heavy on your stomach or your bank balance." - Jake Missing

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Google

I love this place a lot! Super nice and elegant interior, exquisite food! Always come here when I’m in the neighborhood. The food is super refreshing! I’m a bit fed up with pizza and pasta. The menu here is not like in other places and it’s constantly changing. Could you please bring back green dates? They are the best what I’ve tried IN YEARS! I read a lot of comments about portion sizes and high prices, but: 1. You can go to some other places, where pizzas and burgers are served, you’ll be well fed there. Isn’t it a bit absurd to go to a high cuisine restaurant and then complain it doesn’t serve a kilo per dish? 2. Prices are a bit high, but consider the ingredients (which are excellent), interior design and location. Again, isn’t it a bit absurd to go to a restaurant (not a cafe) in the city centre and expect to be charged £15 per person? It’s impossible. The staff was always nice and friendly to me.

Chloë Faye

Google

Really enjoyed my meal here, the flavours are just incredible! And the presentation of the dishes are beautiful too. Had the bread to start, which was very fresh, with tzatziki followed by the lamb and the duck. The only thing I’d say is the portion sizes are quite small, but the flavours certainly make up for that. Would visit again for sure!

Priya Sen

Google

Nutshell is in a great location. The decor is very nice and they have created a good atmosphere. The service is also very good. The menu is interesting - a lot of the food lacked seasoning or just flavour in general. I actually found some dishes to be quite bland - for instance the hummus. The bread is delicious. The mushroom croquettes were decent. The beetroot dish was tasty. They appear to know how to cook meat very well - the lamb was outstanding (although we both needed to add salt) - however as an overall dish it’s somewhat lacking. Without ordering a side of the chips you would be left hungry. The deserts were good. Cocktails seemed good too. Almost everything is hugely overpriced. We ordered the set menu and were told we would get all the starters (we did not) and, they offer a specific cocktail as part of the set menu however if you don’t want that specific drink they are not able offer a different drink as part of the deal. Overall an interesting place to go once - I won’t be rushing back.

Dishes with David

Google

In a Nutshell…… Food quality 9/10, Portion size 5/10, Price 6/10 The service was friendly and the venue design was a little made.com. Being sat downstairs meant we could see the kitchen staff. Some looked a bit bored, albeit occasionally joked between each other. Would be great to see how this could be made more inclusive as I’ve been to places with an open kitchen and they use this space to create a buzzing atmosphere and encourage customers to be sat around and watch the food unfold. We went for the set menu for two people. When the hummus came out, it was the equivalent of 2 tablespoons of their hummus with herbs on top. It was nice and tasty and it set the tone for the portion sizes of what was to come. At £45 per head, the plates were more a taster whereby two scoops of each dish was the quantity standard. The mushroom croquettes were nice, yet small in size. The dessert was yum and plated beautifully. The quality of the ingredients were good overall. Add a £30 bottle of wine and water and the bill came to £140. It felt very steep for what we received on the plate.

George Eid

Google

The food was amazing and the service was good, but all of a sudden, they rushed us to finish our meal and get out. The weird thing is that we made a reservation and placed our order for a cocktail and the four course tasting meal almost immediately. We ate as fast as they brought the food, but they said that our reservation was only for an hour and forth five minutes, we were taking too long and we needed to clear out before the next table shows up. How exactly are we suppose to eat a four course meal plus a cocktail beforehand in that timeframe. It’s an insult to the food. An amazing meal and kind service went down the drain instantly as they acted like we were doing something wrong. As if the next table was royalty, we were warned we had to rush when they brought out dessert. Then literally 5 min later, we were scolded for not being finished and brought the check. We paid as we tried to finish. Then two min later some guy, presumably the boss, comes over and yells at us to get up. Bizarre! A five star restaurant with a four star ending in the matter of 10 min.

Daniel Levison

Google

Service was great, we sat at the bar. Food so so unfortunately. Some of the dishes were great and some weren't :/. It is a very nice modern twist on traditional Persian food, very creative menu with a very nice variety. If you are a a big fan of this cuisine you need to come here. More about the food: The dumplings weren't fully prepared (You could still see the unprepared color of the dough)and the sauce was a bit too sweet and not thick enough. The beef was great! Same for bread and sambusak.

Samar Saliba

Google

All 6 of us really enjoyed our meal here. We practically ordered everything on the menu and it was all delicious. Items that stood out include: the starter bread, the short rib and the samosa-like triangles. A couple of people ordered some of the gin drinks which seemed interesting on paper but ended up tasting just like any regular gin and t. My only other reservation was that the portions were on the smaller side, especially for mains. So although they’re meant to be shared, we had to order more to make sure everyone could have have a taste of everything.

Luca Pich

Google

Great food, excellent dishes with attention to detail, note on the cooking of meat. Friendly and professional staff, nice local and pleasant atmosphere to accompany the whole. A must in London to taste Persian cuisine. Hope to return soon.