Brasserie Zédel

Französisches Restaurant inmitten des Hotspots Soho in London. Ich kann sowohl die Cafeteria im EG empfehlen als auch das Restaurant im Untergeschoss.
Die Brasserie betritt man über das kleine gemütliche Café, war sich darunter verbirgt, wird man zunächst nicht vermuten. Zedel war früher wohl mal eines der größten und luxuriösesten Hotels mit seinerzeit über 1000 Zimmern. Verblieben ist im Untergeschoss ein prunkvoller Saal im Artdeco Stil (wohl um 1930 ausgestattet). Hier befindet sich die Brasserien mit etwa 100 Tischen, wo man sehr gut französich essen kann. Kleine aber feine Karte. Der Saal ist etwas laut, da sehr groß, die Wände in Marmor sind schön, aber sorgen für eine laute Akustik. Also mein Tipp, etwas später kommen. Ich hatte für 2145 einen Tisch reserviert, bekam dann aber problemlos schon gegen 2115 einen Tisch. Gegen Abend wurde es dann etwas leerer und entspannter, wobei man nicht das Gefühl hatte, dass man dort Feierabend machen wollte. Also fast wie man es in Paris erwarten würde.
Die Crème Brulee kann ich ans Herz legen.
Für ein Essen mit zwei Personen, Trinkgeld, je zwei Wein und Kaffee plant man hier 80 Pfund ein. Für London fast ein Schnäppchen.

I’m a born and bred Londoner who is not a huge fan of central London, particularly Oxford Circus/​Picadilly Circus, so when a friend suggested this place, I didn’t have high hopes. I was in for quite a surprise…
The first surprise is the entrance. Even though the small, cute, French-​looking café your walk into is nice, it doesn’t prepare you for the beautiful, decadent, art-​deco style interior as you walk downstairs. My next big surprise came when I saw the prices… considering it’s central London, the prices are incredibly cheap with a set menu starting at around £13.
The food is generally pretty good — not amazing — but good. having said that, if you’re a crème brûlée fan like me, order that! You won’t be disappointed.

Had dinner at Brasserie Zédel for pre-​theatre which is one of their most popular time!
The service was very fast and our Portuguese waiter was excellent! His services was worthy of a fine dining establishment with great menu recommendations!
The Steak Tartare was a bit of a let down as the meat was minced too thinly and worked way too much with sauces. I’m sure the quality was good to start with but the taste was lost in the mise en place process.
I would highly recommend to make a table reservation to avoid disappointment!

Brasserie Zedel is truly a hidden gem in London, and it seems it has just got a touch better if I was to directly compare it to my last visit. One of the great things about this restaurant is its always buzzing atmosphere, along with the classic brasserie décor, feels just as if you are in France, this place is perfect for a date or for families. Service was also decent, not overly formal or careless. To sum it up, if you are a fan of traditional French food, Brasserie Zedel is a great choice. It might not be the very best in London, but totally value for money, in a superb location.

oh dear me! what a disappointment. a breathtaking entrance — old word glamour and the promise of great French food and loads of atmosphere. we know we’ll have to wait for a table (we tried to book 2 days ago). we are told it’ll be 45 minutes to an hour. we can wait at the bar. we make our way there, where we’re offered a wine list. the first wine we order comes and it is a different vintage from the one advertised, I question it. I decline. they insist. we try it. the concensus is «no». we order a different bottle. again they bring us a younger vintage (is it me or is someone having a laugh here?). we are fobbed off with the explanation that the wines change in February. I explain that it’s mid– February. we wait. we get a bottle of wine which is the grape and vintage on the wine list. oh thank goodness!
we drink wine. we talk. we wait for our table. after 50 minutes we ask how the table is doing because it’s now 9:35 and we are tired. small acknowledgement at the bar. I go back to the maitre’d. he says just another 10 minutes, «max!!» we wait another 20 minutes. we see quite a few empty tables that can seat four. we are a party of three.
we are shown to a table. the band is playing. we are deposited under their noses. I can see three empty tables within a table-​length of us, further from the volume of the brass section. we can hardly converse. the tables around us fill up. we order. we eat. it’s good food. the clock is now ticking.
would we like some dessert? one of us has to go home to Brighton. we explain that and ask for an espresso. no, they don’t do an espresso. they do a cafetière. fine, lets have that. time passes. the Brightonian has to leave. we discuss the bill. she leaves. the coffee arrives — we explain its too late for three, but if we could please just have coffee for 2. «okay» they say, and whisk it away.
we eat our dessert. it’s delicious. we drink our single cafetière. we ask for the bill. we have been charged for an extra cafetière. and a discretionary 15% service charge. we don’t pay that. we pay under a 10% tip and hope they’ll get the message.
ha! the place is almost full when we leave at 11pm. I don’t think they’ll get the message. we joke about how familiarly French it feels

The place looks frankly, amazing. Great service and some pretty decent music after 9pm. The only problem, the food, fairly bland and nothing to write home about in the vegetarian menu. Can’t say I’d recommended it.

I visited Brasserie Zedel on a Wednesday evening with two friends. The venue inside is beautiful and when you finally walk into the restaurant it does feel magnificent. It does have a slight bazaar feeling to it and you feel like people are being bustled along. We hadn’t seen each other for a little while and spent a while catching up when we sat down. The waiter asked 3 or 4 times for our drinks order even though we had explained that we were catching up and kept getting distracted. In other restaurants they tell you to get their attention when you are ready — this wasn’t the case here. When we asked some questions about the menu and when we didn’t understand the waiters explanation his response was an impatient «do you want a menu in English». When we eventually ordered food and our drinks it arrived as we ordered and really quickly. The food was really reasonably priced and was ok. It was spot on for the price you pay. It felt much more like a really quick transaction than an eating experience. Overall I would go back again but only if I was looking for somewhere in central London to eat out that was going to serve food quickly.

Brasserie francesa com comida honesta e bom preço, destaque por ser bibi gourment michelin!

Excellent buzzy atmosphere inside this spacious, dramatic dining room. Fairly straightforward french food served by the efficient waiting staff. Great value for money as well. Good for groups.

What a bad place for diner. Too many staff members but still the service is amazingly slow and some staff are really idiots.
Food rather Mediocre with the 20£ menu. Beef very very fatty and starter full of wasabi. Desert was not even close to French cuisine.

A throwback to the Roaring ‘20s, Brasserie Zédel is an excellent place to score a perfected signature cocktail. With great music to match the scene, a generally fully house, and a number of delicious cocktail choices, this is sure to please either before going out to dinner, or for some post-​dinner drinks.
The few downsides worth noting would include: service can be slow, double-​check your bill (we got charged for a bottle, instead of a glass, of wine), and the drinks aren’t cheap (think £12-£14– range for a premium cocktail).
But it’s worth it for the glamorous experience, the mood lighting and music, and a start to a wonderful evening in the heart of London

Brasserie Zedel is right off the Piccadilly Circus tube station, boasting its central location and posh burlesque style. The brasserie itself is downstairs, so be prepared to have no service connection.
Once you are downstairs, you’ll find yourself in a beautiful spacious and brightly lit hall. It is advisable to make a reservation, especially for a large party as it gets pretty busy on a weekend.
The service was very nice and professional. We were in a group of 9 people and got a complimentary dessert liqueur shots on the house at the end of our meal.
The food was comforting, I tried chicken fois gras and escargot in garlic sauce. I wasn’t very much convinced by the escargot as they came with no shell and seemed less authentic. I had profiteroles with hot chocolate poured on top for dessert and they were absolutely delicious! Definitely worth a try ;)

Before I write this review, I hasten to add that I suspect on a good day, this is a place well and truly worthy of an extra star. I think I was probably unlucky in the time and day I went!!!
Anyway, a group of myself and nine friends had ordered a table to eat here last Tuesday evening. It’s easy to get to, the setting is absolutely gorgeous, and our orders were taken quickly and efficiently. The service for the starters was very quick indeed, probably given that the starters were mostly raw: we pretty much all picked set menus, and the Prix Fixe and Formule menus give you carottes râpées and céleri rémoulade respectively as a starter!
For the main, however, the service was disappointingly slow. It must have taken nearly an hour after we had finished our starter to bring our main (which given pretty much the entire table was eating rare steak haché, or the beef bourguignon which was probably cooked in bulk, is a little surprising!). The food for both courses was good, well-​cooked (or rather, perfect all the more because it wasn’t cooked too much, as it’s supposed to be!) and reasonable French food. It was nothing that would blow your mind, but it was tasty and well-​prepared.
The other blow to the service came after pudding — one member of our table had been waiting half an hour for a glass of wine they’d ordered, and four of the coffees supposed to come with the Formule menu didn’t arrive… I will give the place the benefit of the doubt and assume this was not an intentional attempt to see if slightly more merry customers (luckily I wasn’t drinking that evening!) would forgo their coffee, but it does make one wonder… Anyway, the waitress wasn’t particularly helpful or polite when dealing with the request RE: the wine, trying to insist that we’d had the glass and pointing at the glasses of other members of the table, who had been drinking their wine far before my friend had ordered his (never received) glass… She was rather shirty considering we were the one who’d been slighted, and by this point the restaurant was almost empty, so she didn’t even have the excuse of juggling several tables at once.
Overall, the place has good, well-​prepared standard French food, and the setting is beautiful, but the service is a little hit-​and-​miss. If you’ve a spare hour, don’t go in case you don’t finish in time; if you’ve a spare two/​three, you’ll probably have a wonderful evening!

This place is über with a capital oooh. It’s like walking into the 1920s and also really quite like walking into the Brasserie Georges in Lyon. This really is as good as France gets, set a hundred years in the past and located in London. The food is fabulous, the prices are even easier to digest, they have live jazz, I just love it. I really could wax lyrical about it for ages but I won’t so you will need to go there for yourselves to check it out.

The perfect place for pre theatre drinks and dinner. A place for all budgets with a greatest hits of French classics. Always love going here…

A insanely huge busy restaurant. Group of four seated at table, which was probably slightly too small to accommodate us comfortably. A nice wine selection and great plat du jours, which I ended up getting. Would come back again. (Visit — 29/​05/​2014 Dinner)

What a wonderful experience, took my mother here for her birthday to the brassiere and it was enjoyed by all. Great food and great service — warning though menu is in French. The staff was very attentive and explained anything we didn’t understand also very good topping up the drinks, they were also good with children and keeping them entertained. The cost was average or cheap for so central so highly recommend but there is 15% service charge. If you like Art Deco this is the place for you all has been kept original from the hotel and the bar has the décor by far

‘A buzzing and unique restaurant with a great value menu.’
This was my third visit to Brasserie Zedel and I was once again very impressed. I joined two friends for a relaxed Friday night after work supper. We were greeted by very charming hosts and quickly escorted to our table. Our waiter was attentive but discreet and was always aware of our needs.
We ordered the house red carafe, reasonably priced at £13.50. The wine was easy drinking and complemented our food perfectly.
We all opted for three courses (due to the great prices!). For starters my two friends had soup — the tomato and the fish. The soups were plentiful and brilliantly flavoured and seasoned. The soups came with croutons and cheese on the side — a welcome addition. I had the quiche, which was simple yet tasty.
For mains, it was the chopped steak that was the star of the show. Shaped into a patty and cooked to a perfect medium-​rare, the meat was excellent quality and had a delicious charcoaled taste. The pepper sauce was smooth, creamy and was perfectly mopped up by the crunchy fries. The chicken dish was very moist and every element was very well cooked. The fish main was excellent, with a tangy sauce complemented by the sharp capers.
Puddings were great! I opted for the floating island — the soft spongy meringue was floating in a smooth cream with little bites of caramel and nougat. The chocolate praline cake was a little heavy, but tasted decedent. The lemon tart was sharp and had a lovely consistency.
The bill came to under £90 which was very reasonable for three courses and wine in a central London restaurant. The atmosphere, décor and staff made it a lovely evening.

Oh my! Much like other reviewers, I found Brasserie Zedel very good! Service was excellent! Food was amazing, I had the beef bou… well, you know how it’s spelled… And the prices are excellent to boot. The only thing is that it is quite cavernous inside and the noise level was very high. There is a strong echo factor meaning everyone’s conversations and the clanking of the cutlery sounded much louder than it needed to be. And I don’t mind loud but it was a bit much for my taste. Toilets are quite nice and fancy. :) But I’d go again, but prepared with ibuprofen beforehand to avoid a noise headache.

Swung into the Bar Americain last night. We took our first cocktails by the bar until our table was available. Sat down and drank up. A great place to hang out with friends, enjoy some classic concoctions, and having a few laughs.
A top night indeed!!!

Such a cool little spot in a busy part of london!
the main restaurant is amazing, like walking into a film — and the food is just as good. very cheap too considering — main meals are about 9 – 10 pounds, and 5 pounds for dessert — we had the ile flottante which was just beautiful!
waitress was lovely too — totally recommend this place!

This place is spectacular to walk into and the staff couldn’t be friendlier, however I found the food a little disappointing. It is very reasonably priced but just didn’t live up to my expectations, I ordered the hanger steak rare and it was more on the side of medium and not as tasty as I would have liked! A friend of mine ordered off their vegetarian menu (which you have to ask for separately) and was served a cauliflower and cheese mush.
I had very high expectations of the place and in every other aspect (wine, ambience, staff, coffee…) it lived up to them, it was just a shame about the food, perhaps I ordered the wrong thing?

Holy mother. A friend took me here as a surprise, and it was amazing! Upon walking in, a non-​descript café, and then walking down several flights of marble stairs adorned by French posters, it opened into the Brasserie Zedel and American bar! The Brasserie was fantastic — the décor is completely Art Deco and very well maintained, the service was top notch, and the food is not only affordable, but delicious as well. We had some escargots (already out of the shell!), I had some duck confit (perfect! And only 13.50!), and had the Ile Flottante and Baba de Rhum for dessert. A perfect meal in a decadent location right out of a movie. I will return! Also: love the entertainment, so much atmopshere!

My friends and I went for a Friday night dinner, and it was solid.
First, the food was great. I ordered the beetroot and goat cheese salad for starter, then the steak with pepper sauce and chips for main. I particularly liked my starter — it was both fresh and tasty in an authentic French way. I enjoyed my main as well, though I did feel like it was a bit lacking in creativity. Solid, but 2% shy of perfection. Finally, the crème brûlée was on the dot and came in healthy portions as well.
Second, the service was phenomenal. Our waitress was prompt and kind, even patient enough to bring out two types of wine for us to try and decide upon. Given how busy the restaurant was, I was quite impressed with the high quality of service.
Finally, the ambience was top notch. Once we climbed down the stairs, we found a spacious, glamorous space before us, making it hard to believe we were even in London anymore. There seemed to be a performance going on at the same time in the adjacent room as well. It’d be great if I could combine food with a performance next time I’m here.
Overall, a great experience and highly recommended when you find yourself in the happening Piccadilly Circus.

Visited for the Bastille Day celebrations and decided to have the Menu Formule which is a set price of £19.75. Included in that are 3 courses, a glass of red or white wine and a coffee to finish. For value for money it probably can’t be beaten in the area.
The actual meal itself was mainly a hit. The starter of Céleri Rémoulade felt like more of a side and is not something I’ll be rushing to try again however it’s not the worst thing I’ve ever had but the Bœuf Bourguignon was fantastic. Big chunks of beef just falling apart and tasty creamy mash. This was definitely the highlight. The dessert of Ile Flottante was also tasty and was just enough to finish the meal off.
While the meal is ok Brasserie Zédel is more about the experience. The dining room is fantastic and has to be seen to be believed and the staff were all very helpful and extremely knowledgeable about both the food and the wine. This is a place you need to visit

Absolutely positively love this restaurant. This is one of my favourite restaurants in London, amusingly somewhat because it reminds me of my favourite places in NYC. The décor is timeless, the staff highly professional, and the food… simply superb, especially for the price.
Saunter in and feel you’ve been sucked back into the late 1930s. The amber lighting is warm and enticing… and looks particularly good on any complexion. The waitstaff are immaculately dressed, and their manners… impeccable. (cue: wow what good service). Décor: Have a look at the photos posted, they speak for themselves. The menu is what you would expect from a brasserie, but a few notches higher on the quality scale. I’ve had a few fish dishes here and my companion had the steak several times, all of which have been perfectly cooked, seasoned, and served in a generous portion every time. From what people tell me ordering steak in London can be a bit hit or miss, but not here.
Highly recommended. And visit the neighboring Bar Americain. It’s a dream.

Brasserie Zedel is a crazy place. It doesn’t look like much from the outside but after walking through the small café area and down the stairs you are confronted with a huge restaurant.
We arrived at 2 pm on a Saturday without a reservation and every table was taken so we waited at the bar. The staff were really good and allowed us to snack on bread while we waited but the table was ready after 15 minutes wait.
I ordered the steak and chips which was delicious and didn’t break the bank. Now I now it is here I will try and return as it is such a good spot for lunch.