Product details for Clos Maggiore - Clos Maggiore's Restaurant, London - award-wining French gem, a la carte dining

Clos Maggiore's Restaurant, London - award-wining French gem, a la carte dining

Clos Maggiore's Restaurant has introduced diners in Covent Garden and the West End to a refreshing new approach to modern French and Provencal fine dining. Owner, Paul Corrett had one thought in mind, to create a restaurant where the right combination of food, wine and service brought special people together. With the ethos of three deceptively simple ingredients, quality food, made by talented professionals, in a friendly environment make Clos Maggoire's a great dining experience.

Clos Maggiore's is a romantic remembrance of stylish country inns in Provence and Tuscany. Inside, the restaurant is a blend of heart-warming colours, a roaring log fire in a blossom adorned courtyard underneath a fully opening glass roof, offering alfresco dining during the summer and dining under the stars at night. Expect the highest standard of service from the moment you enter and allow the sommeliers to advise you on your choice of wine from the multi-award winning wine list.

With a menu that's inspired by the tastes and traditions of France, but not constrained by it, Clos Maggiore's is committed to real food, and real cooking. Quality produce should be the natural basis of every meal, but the menus demand knowledgeable cooking and traditional techniques. Head chef Marcellin Marc, formally of 2 Michelin Star 'Clos de la Violette', and his team use their training, skill and dedication to bring the very best out in every dish and highlight the inherent flavour of its principle ingredients. The result, cuisine that is both modern and traditional in style, sophisticated and honest in presentation.

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Staff pick

Clos Maggiores is magical, especially in the room at the rear of the restaurant - a conservatory that has a glass roof which opens in summer, and a blazing log fire to keep you cosy when its cold. In either case you dine under branches covered with blossom, and when I ate there with a theatre director the snow falling on the conservatory roof, combined with the white blossom, created an extraordinarily theatrical effect. That the wine (a 2001 Giaconda Shiraz from the Wazner vineyard, followed by a Beechworth, Victoria dessert wine) was stunning also helped, while the food - which included a beef casserole that dissolved deliciously - was first class. Excellent service by gorgeous staff also helped: this is a little touch of heaven in the West End.

Paul Webb - Theatre critic

Customer recommendation

Clos Maggiore's was great. The courtyard area is very pretty - the wild mushrooms on brioche were made to taste really special. I was even more pleased that the smoked haddock risotto equalled that very high standard.

Gaynor - September 2002

Details

• À la carte dining
• Lunch: Monday - Friday
• Dinner: Monday - Saturday
• An optional service charge will be added to your bil

The meal
This is a sample menu and may be subject to changes

• Peas and foie gras - cold velouté of English peas, mouillette of foie gras terrine and honey bread
• Squid - brochettes of seared squid wrapped in smoked bacon, tortellini of spinach and light parsley jus
• Brill - Pan-fried brill, etuvée of mussels and razor clams with chive, shellfish jus and butter emulsion
• Chicken - free-range breast of chicken poached in crayfish bisque, hand rolled fresh pasta
• Chocolate - warm chocolate fondant, with walnut crumble and whiskey cream
• Blackcurrant - vanilla and blackcurrant iced parfait, crispy brioche

Essential information

• This is a non-smoking restaurant
• Nearest station: Covent Garden
• Average cheque
  • Lunch - £35
  • Dinner - £55
• If you are more than ten minutes late the restaurant will cancel your booking
• 24 hrs cancellation notice is required or the restaurant may charge up to £10 per person cancellation fee
• The dress code is smart casual