Otto's French Restaurant London

"Otto’s French Restaurant has been supporting the ICU at St. Thomas’s Hospital since lockdown 1.0. They’re currently asking for donations to help them continue delivering meals to frontline workers. Donate here. We haven’t been here yet, but want you to know this spot exists." - Team Infatuation

"Actualment, Monsieur Otto n’est pas français – mais Otto’s est possiblé le restaurant plus français dans tout le cité. Regard, le canard à la presse! Le pigeon d’Anjou! Le quenelle de poisson Lyonnaise! Le menu est completement en français aussi. Merveilleux. Encore de Côtes du Rhône, s’îl-vous plait. Ou est la plume de ma tante?" - Emma Hughes, James Hansen

"At least every other word on the à la carte menu at Otto’s is one of the keystones of la grande bouffe philosophy: truffles and mushrooms, veal and poulet de Bresse. But true sybarites know to seek out the famed Canard à la Presse. “One Duck, Two Guests, Three Courses” reads the website with admirable if somewhat misleading economy: this is a grand tour of old haute cuisine’s greatest hits, featuring morels, brioche, pommes soufflés, foie gras and black truffle in addition to the main event itself, a whole Challans duck. It costs £180: small beer for such transportive whisking back to a time when Escoffier was still in his pomp." - George Reynolds

"To step into Otto’s as a neophyte is to be mechanically ravished in broad daylight, just off Gray’s Inn Road. Otto Tepasse has won fame and admiration for reviving the 19th-century art of duck pressing, on which he was schooled at Paris’ Coq D’Argent. Otto’s is called Otto’s because this restaurant exists entirely in the brilliant, anachronistic image of the man — and his art." - Adam Coghlan, James Hansen

"Otto’s French Restaurant has been supporting the ICU at St. Thomas’s Hospital since lockdown 1.0. They’re currently asking for donations to help them continue delivering meals to frontline workers. Donate here." - rianne shlebak