Claude's Kitchen

Really excellent. We arrived in time for our booking but ended up seeing a friend downstairs so asked if we could delay our dinner by an hour or so and sit downstairs with them. Nothing was too much trouble - when the dinner did come, how delicious. Utterly unpretentious but with real effort made in not just the ingredients and balance of flavours but presentation also. The wines are lovely but they don't have a great selection by the glass in the restaurant I have to say. It is quite expensive - from memory the wine list (downstairs too in the bar) cheapest was nearly £40 and went right up to 100+. At the £50-60 a bottle range we tried three different ones and all rather lovely wines and they represented decent value in fact. My guests who didn't know prices were certainly full of nothing but praise for them. It was a Thursday night and the atmosphere downstairs was great. When we first turned up around 7 it was still relatively quiet and people were just having a glass of wine or two at tables but by the time we came back down after dinner (around 10) and stayed there until the end - the live singer was on and the atmosphere was epic. The sort of thing in central London/Soho parts you may expect to find but by Fulham standards, what a find! Full marks to all the staff - all in all we had a really great night. Would I come here again? Probably not just for a bottle of wine at 5,6pm - there are other places you could go for literally half the price - but if I fancied the restaurant upstairs and/or drinks (including wine) later in the evening with that atmosphere, the atmosphere there makes it a no-brainer. Great place for dinner/drinks with mates or a date. Quite young crowd - Id say 80% of the people there were between 28-35.