Court Restaurant

3 Reviews on “Court Restaurant”

• Lisa

  I’d booked a restaurant/ticket package which combined aticket to the exhibition with a three course lunch. At the end of 2013 the restaurant underwent a significantrefurbishment which took three months. I hadn’t visited the old restaurant, butapparently the redesign was to make the restaurant more welcoming to visitors.It now boasts an open kitchen and a charcuterie counter in the centre of therestaurant and is run by Benugo.Although there is an a la carte menu, our package included aColombian inspired lunch from a set menu. We settled down for drinks as wechose our Colombian inspired dishes. There were three choices for each course.As a starter I opted for the beef carpaccio, shaved fennel, caper and parsleysalad.While my boyfriend chose the soup. It was supposed to beavocado soup according to the menu, but apparently there wasn’t any so it was adecidedly less Colombian tomato soup. I did try some though and it wasdelicious.For our mains, my boyfriend chose the roast hake, tenderstembroccoli, capers and parsley butter. However, they were out of hake, so it wascod instead, so a minor substitution. He thought it was nice for a simple dish.I chose the chargrilled sirloin steak, chimichurri and yuccachips. Only, they didn’t have sirloin so it was rump. We really didn’t hit agood day for substitutions. Also, I’m not sure what yucca chips are but thesewere bog standard chips. It was nice but a fairly standard steak and chips.Dessert was where I couldn’t make up my mind as to what tohave, I was slightly torn between the roast pineapple carpaccio and coconut icecream and the churros. My boyfriend was more decisive and opted for the plumand apple crumble with creme anglaise.Having had one carpaccio already, I ended up opting for thechurros with chilli chocolate sauce. Have you ever had food that is really hotwhen served but you can’t wait to dig in so you end up burning your mouth orfingers because you just can’t wait? The churros were that food for me. Theywere boiling hot but I just couldn’t wait to dig into the chilli chocolatesauce. I wasn’t too sure what to expect from the chilli chocolatesauce, but it mostly just tasted of chocolate, the difference was that therewas a residual warmth and depth to it from the chilli. Delicious, although Idid need some help with the churros (there were five!), so we shared, taking itin turns to dip into the little pot of chocolate.I loved the idea of pairing an exhibition with food inspiredby the exhibition’s subject. This is definitely an idea which should be takenup elsewhere. notquiteenough.co.uk

  March 9, 2015, 7:39 pm

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• Joseph Frost

  When I came here I had the afternoon tea. It was very tasty sure, but what you’re really paying for is the atmosphere. You sit under a sprawling dome surrounded by the artefacts of ancient civilisations and the bustling people of a modern one, a dozen different languages intermingling at once. Perhaps I am doing the food service an injustice, the service was extremely personalised and the waiter spends time explaining what all the options are to you and even prepares much of it out in the open. The very good variety of teas come in beautiful porcelain and the ham hock on Ciabatta bread is to die for. It’s still hugely expensive though.

  June 29, 2013, 8:55 pm

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• Hungrydave

  A lovely lunch. What a charming setting! Right at the top on a parapet attached to the reading room. Undoubtedly the best of our architectural millenium projects (or tate modern – can’t decide, damn!) this little rstaurant offers the best chance to see it and delivers lovely food, be it on the expensive side. A set menu for lunch might be a plesant addition, but lovely starters (scallops) a great steak and terrific chococlate desert with chilli (always a good idea in my book!) made for a super lunch. The deserts are extravagantly presented with that flying circus quality that James Martin employs (In other words slightly over the top – but always a talking point!).Overall, a great chance to eat good food in a unusual and dynamidc setting. Well worth it.

  January 14, 2010, 8:07 am

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