The Balcon - Piatti

I was there with a group of colleagues. it is a very beautiful place with a beautiful ambiente. nice for groups and meet overnight. I ordered a burger as I believed. it tastes good!

Overall, the French hotel's festive afternoon tea is decadent and delicious, staying true to their luxury standards. The reviewer was pleasantly surprised to find vegetables incorporated into the meal before indulging in the buche de Noel. Tres magnifique!

Although the experience has had it’s highs and lows, a full meal plus cocktails might cost you the very premium price of around £100 per person. All in all it’s exactly what you might expect from a hotel restaurant, and my advice would be to pace yourselves. Read the full review on my blog! Visualizza piatti

that was my first afternoon tea experience and it was a good one of all measures. I must be served in a lot of tea, what I think is an Asian teepot (ironic for a French named place in london) with salty and sweet bites that were very tasty. for a price they can add a glass of champagne the formula that I did and found it quite good, but I did not appreciate to receive the tea and champagne at the same time (not sure what the label is in such an event).

This was my first time enjoying afternoon tea, and it was excellent in every way. I had a wide selection of teas to choose from, served in what I believe was an Asian teapot (ironic for a French-named place in London). The tea was accompanied by delicious sweet and savory bites. For an additional fee, I added a glass of champagne to my experience, which I found to be quite enjoyable. However, I was not sure of the etiquette when both the tea and champagne were brought out at the same time. Overall, it was a wonderful experience.

after a fantastic meal visited in august, unfortunately the main meal I had in august, what I must say was one of the best meal I ever had was not that time and was completely different in taste and appearance, ideas were sent back, which was no problem, we were both offered another meal we rejected. the waiter was very efficient and professional in the way that he dealt with it and was very apologetic. this would not deter us from the return and has our decision not only to eat here again, but to stay in november because of the professionalism of the staff in the hotel. Visualizza piatti

All the right points were hit seemingly with prescience during my recent dinner at the Sofitel St James Hotel’s Balcon resulting in one of the better restaurant experiences of my year thus far. In many ways, The Balcon’s dinner menu appears as though it were written just for me – almost eerily so in fact. A starter course of pan-fried snails with chorizo, sweet potato purée, oloroso jus, and hazelnuts £11)? That’ll do just fine thank you – and how did Chef Matt Greenwood manage to read my mind for a perfect way to commence a meal? Ditto on the roasted hake fillet, with ratatouille, green olive tapenade, and shellfish oil £21) main course and strawberry, pomegranate...read more

And the winner of the trickiest place to eat in London contest is… Sofitel London St James! What?! You mean you missed my tricky food contest? How could that happen? Because it wasn’t announced. Not to you or to me. The Sofitel London St James tricked me! And they got me good… You see, a few months ago I was invited to Sofitel London St James for the launch of their Vegetable Exhibition showcasing the work of French artist Patrick LaRoche. I had a fabulous night viewing vegetable sculptures, eating vegetables and drinking lots of cocktails featuring vegetables. And then I faced the feat of blogging about vegetables. Let me tell you, that was a big blogger challenge. Sunny in...read more

A question often asked to me and my fellow food lifestyle bloggers is: 'How do you eat all that food yet stay slim? ' On my blog you may have seen tucking into multi-dish tasting menus at Chotto Matte, an epic Indian feast at Trishna or a sugar-packed afternoon tea at The Intercontinental Westminster whilst still fitting into my dresses. Well the answer is: I don 't eat like that all the time. I like to adopt an 80 20 rule (80 good days and 20 treat days). So generally during the week I 'll be as good as gold, eating healthy home cooked meals that are nutritionally balanced and doing lots of hard core exercise. Then at the weekend I 'll have my splurges! I don 't really eat junk food...read... Visualizza piatti