Colbert

Visited this place as we walked most of King’s Road with the family on Xmas shopping spree.
As we approached the square noticed this bar/​restaurant and thought we’ll settle ourselves for a nice light dinner accompanied by a nice bottle of wine!
Imagine all that on a rainy day which would have been a wonderful finish to the day only to be brutally spoilt by the pompous attitude of the manager (?! small guy with some facial hair and receding hairline) at the door who said he «didn’t think he’d have a table» looooool
The poor guy MUST BE under the illusion he’s working at the Ritz!!!

(Located in slone square) Nice location, the décor was average. The cappuccino was very good and the mocha was average. The service wasn’t the best and the cheese omelette was very good. The egg Benedict was very sour and the lemon crêpe was average.

Had a nice family dinner here.
After a disaster dinner at Palm Court, Covent Garden last night, we decided to try our luck at this restaurant. We did not make a reservation, just turned up but surprised that the hostess said that there is table available for us (2 adults and a child). Service was good-​really good, beautiful food (and wine list): escargots for entrée, duck and chicken for main, staff knowledge of food was excellent. We’ll come back here again on our next visit to London. A happy customer!!!

Colbert’s service seems to be getting worse and worse each time I come here. From the rude hostesses at the door right through to the waiter, everyone is full of attitude, snippy comments and just generally not gracious at all. As for the food, it is a typical French bistro with the usual menu, taste and cuisine. You can do better going somewhere else.

Typical Euro Trash /​French bistro. Had a cup of coffee with a business acquaintance, with service the bill was £7.88. Paid £10 but had to ask twice for the change back. Like they expect us to just pay them higher tips, too bad we don’t have UKIP in power — we need to kick these Euro trashes out of the UK.

Welcoming, charming spot with friendly staff. Went here for lunch and had a generous pot of Moules Frites. Before getting our food, we were served warm bread with one of the better olive oils I’ve had at a French restaurant. There was a pleasant, vibrant buzz in the restaurant with some people standing at the bar for a glass of champagne, and some parties sitting down for a proper 3 hour luncheon this Saturday day.
I was brought here by a friend and his wife, and their 6 year old son. Although we had a little one with us and were casually dressed (with wet hair from the pouring rain outside…), I felt as welcomed as the well-​dressed women with impeccable make-​up (how did she do that?!) and a Louis Vuittion bag in her hand. The area is good for shopping with two of my favorite stores around the corner: Hugo Boss and Zara.
In essence, the high rating is primary given because of the vibe, and the staff. They were extremely professional, quick, and funny. Looking forward to going back soon.

This is a French restaurant that lacks the flair or passion to set it apart from every other French restaurant in London. The food is solid, however uninspired. For the prices that Colbert charges for its food, I would have expected better than average. However, average is precisely what what you get. Not to say that the food is bad by any means, but it won’t compel you to come back anytime soon.

We are a frequent visitor here while staying in London. The place is very charming, the staff is great, the food is consistently very good. It is a great spot to visit over and over. There is a good variety on the menu, all the food is prepared very simply and very well. The décor and lighting, specially at night, is very relaxed but nice. It is the perfect balance of somewhat upscale combined with relaxed unpretentious but good service. The bar drinks are extremely well made, so its a good spot for a few drinks as well. They also have a very good wine selection.
On nicer days you can grab a table outside. Sloane square is very pleasant and the architecture of building is charming. The lighting of the area at night is well done. And if you happen to be here during holidays you can see the decorations around the squares and the stores.
And finally the breakfast is also recommended. But be sure to book before you go, it is popular. They do manage you squeeze you when they can, so don’t hesitate to ask.

From the minute I saw this French bistro on Sloane Square, I knew I had to find an opportunity to come here. It reminds me of a restaurant I frequented during my university years in Philadelphia, called Parc and located right on Rittenhouse Square (which has a similar vibe to Sloane Square). Even the décor and the menus are quite alike! For a late lunch, I got the steak sandwich and my friend got the chopped chicken salad. The sandwich was on brown bread with the crusts cut off (I was surprised, was expecting more of a baguette given it’s a French restaurant), but both the steak and the caramelised onions were so tasty. It also came with a few leaves of lettuce with French dressing, which I appreciated very much. My friend’s salad was quite impressive… not your ordinary salad and definitely worth ordering if that is your thing. I also got an americano and loved that it came in a pot that served me the equivalent of 3 cups! I understand that perhaps 15 – 16 pounds for a salad or sandwich may seem excessive, but this place is SO nice. Definitely makes me feel at home.

Indoor and outdoor seating in the heart of Sloane Square. I had the croque monsieur and found it really yummy. Great service and nice atmosphere.

ooooh Colbert’s a bit fancy isn’t it?! I loved it though. I met my rock and roll Albanian fellow actorfriend here for coffee on Friday morning and he was already pissed out of his head. They gave us a table but were quite funny about how long we could stay for, they said they had a lot of lunch reservations coming up… either that or they could tell how drunk he was hahahaa. The coffee tasted amazing. And although we ordered just one each… it came in a massive pot which meant more like 3 each!

Eh, boring, old school and average food at above average prices. The steak tartar has zero spices/​flavour (even our waitress advised against it). The sunny seats are nice, and the wine menu is decent, but why not go to a real French brasserie, or the Botanist across the street, which is excellent? I just don’t get this place. Obviously the location is the best, and the brasserie décor is suitably Parisienne, but for foodies? No way.

I took my husband here for brunch for his birthday and as much as brunch is rarely, if ever, amazing we were pretty disappointed. The menu had egg smeared all over it, my Brouilles with Comte was really not nice and his eggs benedict was pretty average. The staff were great and it has a good atmosphere but certainly for brunch it does not justify the expense and waiting list. It is a VAST improvement on Oriels though!!!

The bread sticks are these warmed up little mini baguettes and I really love them. I never book and usually spend a ton of time waiting at the bar which, unlike most pubs, has the ability to serve efficiently despite being extremely busy. Service has always been good, though occasionally slow. Toilets flush as expected. Food is standard anglicised french but good. I almost always get an omelet (they are very good).
The best place in Sloane Square area.
Long Live Mumia Abu Jamal.

This review is long overdue but had to take the time to write it. Went there for a meal Had heard good things about colbert, and had gone in the months following its opening. Decided to have 2 mains as i was quite hungry. Had the croque monsieur which was cold on the inside, tasteless and just completly dissapointing. I was more optimistic about the boudin blanc that i had ordered but when i finally did get it, it tasted just horrible.
Cant remember what my date had at the time but that night at 4am she got up and was horribly sick all night long. At first she thought it was food poisoning and turned out to be Noro virus. Shortly after i got it too. Colbert being the only place i had been to since arriving in London it was without a doubt the source of it and when we did call to inform them that we had both been sick they didnt seem the least bit concerned.
Its really a pity to have such poor quality of food and service at this brasserie that has so much potential to be great.

Sloane Square manages to be one of the most outwardly pretty yet utterly vacuous London addresses and at 5 to six on a late week workday night, also seems to be home to more arseholes per square foot than a builders bum convention.
Within seconds of leaving the tube I’ve been buffeted by a spry fool in a pinstripe oblivious to anything but a night on the ‘lesh’ with the boys («on my way down the King’s Road now squire, you’ll spot me, I’m looking seriously sexy tonight») and watched as some infernal permatanned, pashmina clad princesses did her level best to get knocked over by one of the smug Astons prowling the Square by waltzing straight in front of it assuming that it would (like everything else in life) fit around her.
After that Colbert was a warm buzzing welcome. While a number of the arseholes had inevitably found their way indoors to loudly complain about the paucity of the residents parking in Ken and Chelski, there was enough space for me to slip unobserved onto a stool at the handsome marble bar. It’s a classy old fashioned sort of space that, with its comfortable booths and waistcoated French staff feels like it has been there since way before George Devine reopened the Court next door in 1952.
In actual fact, it’s been there for less than 2 years, when über-​restaurateurs Jeremy King and Chris Corbin took advantage of a famous tiff between the landlord and previous tenants Oriel in which the latter were booted out following a terrible meal experienced by the Earl of Cadogan and his family. Most people would have just refused to leave a tip.
Service is friendly, prompt and efficient (perhaps mindful of the fate of their predecessors) and it’d be hard not to recommend the location at least as a great spot for dinner before a show at nearby Cadogan Hall or the Court. The food was fine brasserie fare, though maybe just without quite the oomph I’d been hoping for.
Mini house baguettes were toasty warm spears of delight, built for scooping up thick butter, ideally the garlicky sort I’d been hoping for along with my starter of l’escarcots. The snails were plump, mild and inoffensive little fellows, like schoolboys from a minor public school. Their buttery bed was pleasant enough, though not a patch on the earthily vulgar bunch I got mugged by at Zedels. Admittedly though, these ones didn’t make you feel that you’d be growling parsley and garlic at people during interval drinks.
A Salad Nicoise was fine, but much less than the sum of its parts. Most of those parts were excellent, with the exception of a lump of slightly dry tuna, but it was difficult to ignore the keen £17.50 price point for a handful of haricots vert and an, admittedly perfectly cooked, egg.
The rest of the menu is textbook grand brasserie, with moules, confits and a section for crustacia. Plus plats du jour, all day dejeuner and some rather exciting looking patisserie to finish and you can breakfast all day or lunch from noon until night. If I’m in the area I just well might do either, or both. And it’d be the ideal place for your slightly risqué maiden aunt, just make sure she’s paying.

Highly recommended. Four of us went to Colbert in Sloane Square around 11:00pm on a Saturday night for coffees and desserts, after a comedy show at nearby Cadogan Hall — and we had a very pleasant experience. The excellent service was so friendly and polite that I was taken by surprise! Cappuccinos and cakes were delicious, and very reasonably priced, considering the classy setting.

This place is part of the Corbin and King stable that includes The Wolsey, Delauney and Brasserie Zedel. I mention this because I am very neutral on these places– great rooms, but unspectacular food.
I have tried to get in a couple of times before, but have been put off by the queue, and once my dining companion was put off by the fact that everyone else appeared to be an average age of 90. Anyway, on this occasion, we arrived on a Thursday evening at 9pm, when the clientele were of a broader age range, and were seated at the bar for a drink for less than 15min before we were called to the table.
The place itself is beautiful in a French brasserie Corbin and King way, and could conceivably have been here a lifetime rather than a few short years. Staff are friendly, efficient and fun, joking with us and checking that all was well. Clientele tend to be a little more mature, and of the easily elegant, moneyed Chelsea variety.
So on to the food. As I mentioned, I am not a fan of the food at related restaurants, but I was recommended the steak tartare (£20) by the waiter. As this is a favourite of mine, I had to go for it. It arrived with the hugest portion of good chips and a salad. And it was really, really good.
2 mains, 2 glasses of wine, water and coffees came to £90. I will be back. And check out the loos, the attention to detail with the old school French décor continues charmingly here as well.

I was visiting London for my FIRST time and my friend from Finland took me here. As soon as I walked in the doors I was enchanted by the dim lighting and authentic French décor. The two of us were seated on the spot, BUT, if you are going with a large party make a RESERVATION in advance (I tried taking a party of 6 here without a reservation and it was NOT happening). Our server was very thoughtful and knowledgeable of the menu. The food we ordered was brought out promptly and was very delicious. I would highly recommend this to anyone in the Chelsea area FOR SURE. I’ll be back as soon as I can hop the pond again…

I was immediately impressed when I walked through the door, and with all the hype surrounding the opening of Sloane Square’s stylish new place, that was unexpected. Instead of attitude I was greeted with warm welcomes. There was of course no room to sit, yet instead of that all too typical «too bad — good luck getting a table in the next year» dismissal, I was instead given at least the illusion that they were trying to help me out and wanted me to come back in the near future. I cannot express how refreshing it was to experience that, and how important it is that there are still places out there making an effort for the clientele. So on that alone I highly recommend checking out the hottest new eatery in Chelsea.
After a couple other attempts at getting a table I finally was able to experience a breakfast and then a couple weeks later, a lunch there as well. And I almost hate to say it, but the food was a bit of a let down. It was the weakest link in an otherwise enjoyable experience, and because of that I am giving Café Colbert a 3 star review. But the quality of the food is the most important factor of a restaurant no matter how lovely the space or friendly the staff. For the breakfast I ordered scrambled eggs with salmon which I thought would be a treat. I was a presented a very watery and soggy plate of eggs with some messy, coarsely shopped salmon thrown in. It looked unappetizing and while tasted all right it was far from fabulous. Thinking I ordered wrong, and again seeing that my first impression of the place was so positive, I went back again this time for lunch in hopes of it being much better. It didn’t have to be a culinary triumph, I was just looking for a good bistro meal. I ordered the cassoulet which was again, just OK. Good, better then breakfast, but still a bit dry and lack luster. And this time the service was slow as well. I am very much hoping the kitchen can turn things around as the location is prime, and the décor offers a little bit of Paris right in the heart of Chelsea.
Locals had been waiting a while for a much needed return of a neighbourhood hangout back on Sloane Square. In many ways Café Colbert fits the bill. It is convenient, lively, and familiar. But CC needs to improve the kitchen and soon.