Elystan Street
Modern European restaurant · Chelsea
43 Elystan St, London SW3 3NT, United Kingdom
Highlights
Modern European dishes, seasonal ingredients, elegant dining room
Modern European dishes, seasonal ingredients, elegant dining room
"Elystan Street is a fine dining restaurant in Chelsea that has the feel of a living room where you’re worried about breaking anything for fear of bankrupting yourself. Despite the wannabe chill but quite unchill atmosphere, the changing seasonal food at this modern British restaurant is tasty. It’s bolshy flavours—things like scallop and crab-stuffed courgette flower, gorgeous lamb with a garlic purée you want to exfoliate with—that you can gobble up like a trust fund." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, sinead cranna, rianne shlebak
"This fine dining restaurant feels like a living room where you’re worried about breaking anything for fear of bankrupting yourself. But the food at this modern European spot is tasty. This isn’t fiddly, fancy stuff you play around with. It’s bolshy flavours—like scallop and crab-stuffed courgette flower, gorgeous lamb with a garlic purée you want to exfoliate with—that you can gobble up like a trust fund. For a blowout meal or a treat-yourself set lunch, Elystan Street is a restaurant you could easily settle into." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna
"Elystan Street is a neighbourhood restaurant, but as that neighbourhood is Chelsea, you can expect to find elegance and style in spades. It’s a collaboration between Philip Howard and Rebecca Mascarenhas, and with its huge windows, well-judged lighting and friendly service, it's an equally charming spot for a light lunch or an intimate dinner. The cooking comes with well-defined flavours and a lightness of touch, exuding a pared-back, unfussy style that suits the frequent Mediterranean influences. Barbecued octopus with aioli, crispy chickpeas and tardivo is a prime example." - Michelin Inspector
"Chelsea doesn’t want for posh restaurants with mediocre food, but if you’re going to shell out for dinner with your folks, the food should at least be good. Elystan Street delivers in spades on that front, and is the kind of sleek yet grown-up kind of place that the parentals will appreciate. You’ll get formal service that’s also laid-back for this part of town, as well as very good upscale French and Italian food." - david paw
"Imagine you had a wealthy godparent who had just become known to you. Imagine they invited you across town to a world of gleaming white Georgian architecture and four-door Porsches. Imagine you were sitting in a sedate room with them eating a very posh Twix. Well, you’re in Elystan Street. The fine dining restaurant in Chelsea has the feel of a living room where you’re worried about breaking anything for fear of bankrupting yourself. Despite the wannabe chill but quite unchill atmosphere, the food at this restaurant is tasty. This isn’t fiddly, fancy stuff you play around with. It’s bolshy flavours—scallop and crab-stuffed courgette flower, gorgeous lamb with a garlic purée you want to exfoliate with—that you can gobble up like a trust fund. The à la carte menu is similarly bolshy in price, as is the tasting menu. But for a blowout meal or a treat-yourself set lunch, Elystan Street is a restaurant you could easily settle into. photo credit: Courtesy of Elystan Street" - Jake Missing
