The Ledbury
Modern European restaurant · Westbourne ·
Modern European fine dining with inventive tasting menus
Modern European fine dining with inventive tasting menus
"Announced as a new Two Michelin Star restaurant in the MICHELIN Guide Great Britain & Ireland 2023." - The MICHELIN Guide UK Editorial Team
"Set in Notting Hill, this Three-MICHELIN-Star restaurant blends superb ingredients, technical mastery and exquisite balance with a genuinely joyful atmosphere — I saw many smiling faces and found it to be as much a happy, wholehearted experience as a brilliant one. Brett Graham’s understated ethos is evident from the discreet canopy and modest signage to the calm, low-key dining room and his down-to-earth presence, serving courses without seeking the limelight; his stated aim of being people’s favourite restaurant seems to have been achieved. The success feels like a true team effort: Head Chef Tom Spenceley’s kitchen produces highly detailed dishes that marry complexity with restraint, and front-of-house, led by the warm Jack Settle, delivers attentive service that never feels aloof. Highlights from a lengthy tasting menu included a langoustine with lobster salt — tempura-coated and presented as a lollipop to be dipped into a hollandaise balanced with finger lime and puréed sea buckthorn; a playful two-part bread course (a laminated bow shaped like a bow tie filled with parmesan and truffle béchamel, then a Parkerhouse roll glazed with honey and bee pollen served with goat’s milk butter); the signature Mushrooms From the Cabinet (warm truffle royale, house-grown shiitake in a slightly jellied dashi with nettle sauce added at the table and tiny ricotta-filled pasta parcels); a hay-aged Anjou pigeon carved at the table with a croustade of liver and confit wing, a butter-soft breast, green peppercorn and cherry-kernel sauce, bitter baby turnips and a smooth vadouvan; and inventive desserts such as a fresh take on crème caramel with salted liquorice ice cream, blackcurrant sorbet, semi-dried beetroot and a brandysnap tuile. Make sure to admire the mushroom cabinet on the stairs, and if you can, visit during game season when the hunting-inspired dishes are especially superb." - The MICHELIN Guide UK Editorial Team
"Did you know that there’s British wasabi? We didn’t before we ate at The Ledbury. Arguably London’s most famous fine dining restaurant, the Notting Hill restaurant has been doing all sorts with British ingredients since 2005. The full tasting menu costs a chunk, but this is a special occasion restaurant and, unlike other prim and proper fine dining restaurants, it’s one where staff speak like regular people rather than AI Jeeves." - jake missing
"An acclaimed British tasting menu restaurant that doesn’t leave you counting down the courses, The Ledbury is a special occasion spot with some top-tier cooking. In the humming, foliage-heavy dining room, staff speak like regular people rather than AI Jeeves. Sure, you’ll learn about British wasabi and the mushroom cabinet downstairs, but also that fine dining doesn’t have to be a snooze." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna
"The Ledbury is a lovely place to be. Light floods the sedate Notting Hill dining room in the day, and the changing menu mixes French technique with quality British ingredients. Every sweetbread or Cornish turbot tastes better than any you’ve had before. It can be a bit finickety at times, but with every brush of British wasabi or scoop of turbot bone velouté, you learn just enough without feeling lectured." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, sinead cranna, rianne shlebak