Soutine | Grand Café Dining by Regent’s Park
Chaïm Soutine was a Russian-French painter, born the tenth of eleven children, who – when he got his big break in Paris and sold 60 paintings at once – jumped straight into a taxi to Nice, over 400 miles away.
His eponymous restaurant, meanwhile, is the seventh restaurant from the reigning monarchs of Grand Café revival, The Wolseley Hospitality Group.
Settled into a large Edwardian building on a corner of St. John’s Wood High Street, a stone’s throw from Regent’s Park, Soutine is a more casual, laissez-faire offering than some of their other, more opulent eateries like The Wolseley and Brasserie Zédel. A zinc-topped bar commands the front room, which is a little slice of the continent with a multitude of vintage posters, autographs and paintings lining the lacquered cherry-panelled walls. Hugging the pavement outside are tables and benches for people-watching with a cup of coffee; while the back room, with its skylight, art nouveau motifs and fringed lamps, is the spot for dinner à deux. Particularly now as Soutine has just launched its new spring menu and naturally Nudge Members (and up to three guests) can get 50% off it from 12th April to 3rd May.
Soutine
The food at Soutine is staunchly French in character, with brasserie-style comfort food being the order of the day. In the morning, you can perch at the bar for pastries, omelettes and eggs Benedict , or commandeer a whole booth at the weekend for a feast of potato rösti with double-fried eggs, pancakes, and Croque Monsieurs. And by night, you can whisper sweet French nothings (by saying ‘rien, rien‘) over oysters, steak tartare and garlic-heavy snails; before tucking into chicken schnitzel, steak frites or Bouillabaisse.
As the evening draws to a close, you’ll order yourself a tarte au citron or strawberry & pistachio start, polish off a vermouth or Champagne cocktail, and head outside for a languorous, twilit stroll home…
…or a taxi.
NOTE: Soutine is open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner, from 11am-10pm (Monday – Friday), 9am-10pm (Saturday) and 9am-9pm (Sundays). You can find out more, and make a reservation, HERE.
PERK: Nudge Members +3 can get an exclusive 50% off the new spring menu from 12th April – 3rd May. Find out more under the ‘50% off Food’ banner above. Not a Nudge Member yet? Sign up for a free 7 day trial.
Soutine | 60 St. John’s Wood High Street, NW8 7SH
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