Soren Jessen’s 1 Lombard Street inhabits an imposing Grade-II listed banking hall, converted into a busy brasserie, bar and restaurant in the grand European tradition.
Bucking the trend for fusty City restaurants, it is bright, elegant, sophisticated. Executive chef, Herbert Berger, is as adept with Bangers and Mash as Pot au Feu of Lobster, Thai Spices and Lime infusion.
The brasserie opens at 7.30am, serving food throughout the day, while the restaurant, secreted in a comfortable sanctuary behind the main room, offers more elevated dishes at lunchtime and in the evening. The menu might include a signature salad of artichokes, wild mushrooms and French beans dressed with pumpkin seed oil and old balsamic vinegar and for dessert, roast figs with camargue rice pudding, blackberry and port reduction and honey ice cream.
Berger’s rural upbringing in the Austrian Alps provides a foundation from which he approaches flavour; his international cuisine eschews out of season produce for wild food wherever possible, resulting in ‘a triumph of deep-flavoured luxury and inventiveness?
Opening Hours
Mon-Fri: 7:30am till Midnight
Executive Head Chef: Herbert Berger
Capacity: 200
Dress Code: Casual Smarth
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A NON SMOKING RESTAURANT
IF YOU WISH TO SMOKE, WE INVITE YOU TO DO SO IN THE BRASSERIE
