Foxtrot Oscar

My husband and I (Americans) wanted to go to an English «celebrity chef» restaurant, so we chose this one because it was the closest to our hotel. The place did not disappoint. (Although I was disappointed that my menu choice wasn’t available and we weren’t told about that prior to being given menus to peruse), but we ended up enjoying the food immensely. My husband had the salmon, and I had gnocchi — delicious! The service was not as friendly as we like, but that seems pretty common in Europe. I would definitely return to this restaurant if I travel to London again!

We went for dinner to Foxtrot Oscar, the more casual Gordon Ramsey restaurant on Royal Hospital Road (the other is his flagship 3 michelin star gaff which would have been nice but is a bit out of our price range!).
Whilst we made our menu choices, we enjoyed some Chapel Down Brut Rose which was a nice start to the evening and had a lovely spring freshness.
We kicked off our meal with Scottish Smoked Salmon and a refreshing Kentish beetroot salad.
Next we tucked into a flavourful Dingley Dell pork chop, and perfectly cooked pan-​fried sea bream fillets which went well with the salty samphire.
We opted for desserts of Sticky Toffee Pudding and cheesecake. The sticky toffee was delicious with none of the burnt aftertaste that it can sometimes have but it continued the theme of small portions. I thought the cheesecake would be the baked New York style but it turned out to be more like a ginger & vanilla mousse which was complemented by the slight tartness of the forest berries.

Gordon Ramsay je l’aime d’amour. C’est un peu mon chef préféré, il né s’encombre pas de chichis ou autres fioritures, il va à l’essentiel et sa cuisine est simple mais parfaite.
C’est donc avec beaucoup, BEAUCOUP d’espoir que lors de notre séjour à Londres nous avons réservé une table au Foxtrot Oscar dans Chelsea.
Arrivés pour le dernier service nous avons été accueillis parfaitement et avons pû choisir notre table. L’ambiance est très cosy et la décoration sombre ma chaleureuse incite à la détente.
La clientèle est huppée mais en rien pompeuse, en clair on se sent des VIP mais avec une certaine décontraction !
A peine installés on nous apporte quelques miches de pain chaud et du beurre salé (n’oublions pas que Gordon a travaillé en France). Avec le froid, cette entrée en matière est plus qu’appréciée !
En entrée, j’ai choisi des betteraves rôties au miel, mousse de chèvre, pomme granny et jeunes pousses de basilic. Premier orgasme culinaire !
L’ensemble est simple mais extrêmement bien assaisonné et surtout parfaitement coordonné.
Pour le plat — et c’est là mon véritable coup de cœur — explosion de saveurs avec des gnocchi maison sauce pécorino, cèpes et pignons de pin.
C’est bien simple, à chaque bouchée j’ai poussé un soupir de contentement. Les gnocchis étaient aériens, absolument pas bourratifs et la sauce… La sauce ! On dit que la faim est la meilleure sauce, eh bien, celle ci se mangerait sans faim ni gourmandise tant elle est parfaite !
Pour terminer j’ai opté pour le Lemon Posset et ses baies de printemps. Ce qu’il faut savoir, c’est que le Lemon posset est un dessert datant du moyen-​age, qu’on prescrivait alors comme remède. Devenu depuis un dessert simple mais gouteux on le retrouve souvent dans les restaurant traditionnels britanniques. C’est une sorte de panna cota (pour la consistance) au citron très acidulée. Parfaite pour terminer un repas conséquent.
En terme de prix c’est très raisonnable pour ce niveau de qualité: entre 7 et 9£ pour les entrées, 14 et 20£ pour les plats et 6 et 7.50£ pour les desserts.
C’est donc 4 étoiles largement méritées pour ce restaurant de Gordon Ramsay, j’ôte une étoile en moins pour le service qui à la fin de repas fut un peu moins sympathique, l’heure tardive peut-​être?

Visited this restaurant while on my trip to London. Went with my family and friend, great atmosphere and waiters were very content. Food was great, really recommend this place!

My wife and I went to Foxtrot Oscar on our recent trip to London. I’ll make this review short and sweet.
Go to Foxtrot Oscar, you will not be disappointed.
We had the full experience (starter, wine, entrée, dessert, coffee) and couldn’t be happier.
We split a Courgette flower starter and it was life changing! The flower was stuffed with goat cheese then deep fried. It was also sitting on some olive tapenade that complemented it very well.
My wife had the chicken for dinner and I had the burger, and both were prepared excellently.
The staff was excellent as well, our waitress answered all my questions and didn’t scoff when I asked dumb questions (example: «What is a courgette?»)
This is a gem in London! If you are visiting or live in London, check it out!

Wait staff was very polite, and the truffle fries were decent. That gets 2 stars. The food? Awful. My husband and I come here for lunch last month while on vacation, after an amazing dinner at Maze. We each ordered the world’s priciest cheeseburger, because we were starving, and truffel fries. We were one of two tables in the restaurant. Our burgers took over 30 minutes and, once they arrived, I could see why. They were charcoal. Burned outside, totally flavorless, no juice or pinkness at all. I had to pair every bite with a sip of water because it was so dry. I complained to the waiter, who told me that they had to make them like that or people complained. I told him I’ve never had a burger so overdone. He said that’s just the way it is – if there’s any pinkness to the beef people complain. Basically, I paid a lot of money for a lunch of french fries.

Simple bistro, reasonable price, great service.
This is my first time in the UK (I’m from Brazil) and I went there to celebrate my birthday (dinner).
The menu is small but every dish I saw in mine or other tables looked perfect. My courses came perfect and the staff even put a birthday candle and wrote happy birthday in my dessert plate, which was a lovely surprise.
Fernando explained every dish and even gave me some tips to discover London. I am absolutely sure I’ll come back there next time I’m in London (I might even get back again before this trip is over).

Very lovely restaurant with great food and fantastic service. Thank you, Matcial, the manager of the restaurant to make sure we had a fabulous time.

The service was just shy of abismal (long wait for waiter, didn’t offer any cocktails or drinks when he took the order). The starters were good including the caesar salad and bone marrow. The steak was not good. We should have tried the burger, I suppose, since that was what everyone around us was eating. Being fans of Steak Las Vegas and Restaurant Gordon Ramsey down the street, it was disappointing. We knew it was a more casual restaurant, but the taste just didn’t make up for the service or seem worth the price. Meh.
–Mrs. Kendall C.

Like most places in London, this is a pleasant place where you can take your parents to dinner and everyone will be happy, but no one will be excited. For a chef known for his fiery, food-​passionate persona, would have expected some more spark, but was sorely let down.
Place was a bunch of ups & downs. Menu had good variety, but wine list was identical to the York & Albany. Burger & chips well done, but pesto pasta was like M&S prepared dinner. Tomato salad: exciting with fresh mozz and various multi-​colored tomatoes; sticky toffee: dull as. Service was pleasant although a little awkward, ambiance was pleasant although a little on the side of boring.
Basically giving 3 stars instead of 2, out of fear that Gordon will read this review and take a meat cleaver to his head chef. I can’t have that much blood on my hands.

Simple and satisfying bistro food at reasonable prices. Great relaxed and cozy ambiance and super friendly service. We really liked our waitress and she gave us some good laughs.
We tried the…
Roasted marrow bones, parmesan crust, garlic butter, parsley and lemon £7.00
Classic Caesar salad with crispy smoked bacon and poached egg £7.00
Foxtrot cheese burger with smoked bacon, chunky chips and tomato relish £14.00
Moules and frites £13.50
Cherry and apple crumble with vanilla custard 6.00
It was my first time trying roasted marrow and it was as I expected it to be. Rich, rich and rich! I really liked this dish but I think it is better for sharing than for one person to consume. The caesar salad was good and you cant really go wrong with poached egg on anything. The cheeseburger was thick and juicy and made how a burger should be made. Moules and frites were a delight as well. Fries here were thick cut and crispy. Cherry and apple crumble with vanilla custard was a sweet end to our meal.

Reasonable, but I felt it was a normal restaurant with Gordon’s name attached to it.
I had the Auvergne starter which was pretty nice. The pork belly was tasty but I was disappointed with the kind presentation I would expect if I was cooking it in my own kitchen.
Good selection of beers and wine on the menu though, particularly that they serve goose island IPA which has become a favorite of mine
Overall I was happy, but expected a little more

My partner and I went to Foxtrot Oscar on a date and to celebrate his birthday. Granted, it was with a daily deal voucher, I wasn’t expecting great service as a result. Basically, it lived up to my expectations, and wasn’t great service.
We were confined to choosing the most expensive item on the menu, a braised pork belly with rice and asian inspired salad and a cheesecake for dessert. What I didn’t understand is why you would confine diners to the most expensive thing on the menu and NOT let them choose a cheaper item that would have then been perhaps more profitable for the business anyway. We were also confined to a particular wine choice, which I think is fine, but we then waited about 15 minutes for wine to be served and we weren’t asked if we wanted a top up.
Anyway, back to the food, since the service was a bit disastrous. The pork belly was nice, braised asian style in a dark soy sauce jus. It was tasty, but I knew I couldn’t count on an English fine dining establishment at getting the entire flavor profile of Chinese braised pork belly correct. Additionally, the cheesecake was very creamy, and tasty, but as a self professed amateur baker, I’ve made better cheesecake myself.
All in all, a good romantic atmosphere that served the purpose of the occasion well, but food and service thoroughly disappointed. Tube takers beware, this place is a good 15 minute walk from the Sloane Square tube. Oh well. Would I go back, probably not. I’m sure there are better Gordon Ramsay restaurants out there. So, Foxtrot Oscar, Foxtrot Oscar.

We had an absolutely lovely time here.
The setting was intimate. It was quiet and we felt great value for money. The food was really delicious. I had the risotto, yum yum, but not sure if that was seasonal. The menu was small, but everything on it was fantastic. I would definitely recommend it.
Parking is probably tricky, but we took a taxi.

Very nice location, I went here during my stay in London and walked thru a cute small neighborhood to find it. My initial attraction to the place was Gordon Ramsay but I was satisfied by the food/​drinks regardless.
Would absolutely go back!

With visitors from out of town we thought the perfect Sunday Brunch would be a Ramsey restaurant. Something that isn’t in every city. We planned a lunch followed by a day of sight seeing and walking about the city so I made reservations for 12:30PM thinking we would be out by 2PM at the latest.
We arrived early and were clearly at the start of the day’s guests. We made a drink order immediately (visitors and a Sunday, we want a drink!) but it took them what seemed to be an astronomical amount of time to serve the drink on ‘special’ — a raspberry Bellini. We were anxious waiting but the Bellini’s were delicious (worth the wait, we though).
Next it took awhile for the waiter to come and take our orders (we get it, it’s Sunday Brunch) and most of us ordered the two-​course lunch. Some of us got starters instead of dessert so we waited for the starters (we get it, people are starting to come in now, it’s getting busy). Starters come, it was an OK soup and aubergine salad was very tasty. It didn’t take long for four people to finish two starters so then we found ourselves waiting again. Might as well order a bottle of wine. After about 15 min plus wait for mains after our starters were cleared we did enjoy a beautiful Sunday roast. Our guests opted for the more traditional roast with Yorkshire pudding (which was actually way too heavy!) My beef was lovely. The dish had a parsnip purée that was just fantastic.
After food was cleared we were given dessert menus… (why we asked ourselves since we had already ordered dessert through the two-​course lunch menu)… but we still had to sit there awhile looking at the menus. The waiter (the same waiter mind you that TOOK OUR ORDER) then came to our table to take dessert orders. Confused, we pointed out that we had already ordered dessert. He laughed and said, «of course!» and disappeared. Twenty minutes later we were still waiting for our desserts. By this time we were a little sick of trying to reason why things are running so slowly and just got annoyed. It took awhile for them to give us the bill and then to pay.
All in all we were walking out a little after 2:30PM. Two hours for Sunday roast?! Maybe in Ramsey’s world.
If service at a restaurant is disjointed, obviously slow and confused, even if the food was delicious and famous I wouldn’t go back again.
Maybe that’s why they called it Foxtrot Oscar?

Excellent bistro food, and the service was impeccable. I had the English Onion Soup start and the Goose leg entrée. The English Onion soup quite possibly could be better than the French version! My wife got the pork belly and loved it. Service was excellent and the atmosphere was great.
We went here b/​c it was a Gordon Ramsay restaurant, but would go back even if it wasn’t.

We recently went to this little bistro a few blocks from our place… little did i know it was owned by Gordon Ramsey. The food was delicious and very appealing to the eye. We had braised pork cheeks with celeriac and wild garlic gremolata, sauteed courgetts and parmesean, a pea, broad bean and goat cheese salad with hazelnuts and mint, and a salt cod brandade with grilled chorizo and red pepper relish. Delicious all around!

More intimate than I imagined it would be, with a nice walk from the tube through a charming Chelsea/​S Ken residential neighborhood before getting there.
It was basically good. I got the special of the day — roast with yorkshire pudding, chips, and veggies. The buttered carrots were really nice. The yorkshire pudding was nice — but it was a bit more flakey than I wanted (more substance, please).
My friend’s salmon dish was delicate… almost too delicate. As in tiny portion with hardly any garnish, taking up 10% of the plate it was served on. It tasted good, though.
The treacle pudding with clotted cream was too rich for me to eat more than ¹⁄₃ of the dessert over a 20-​min time period. The two of us couldn’t get through half.

I really want to give this 3.5 stars, just rounding up.
My boyfriend and I had reservations at 6:15 before a show in London. The wait staff were courteous, nice and really quick with our orders.
I had the raspberry Bellini and boy was it tasty and it hit the spot.
we ordered the Pork belly & Lamb neck with 2 sides of mash potatoes and buttered greens.
The food was spot on, quick, and delicious. It was perfectly cooked and the buttered greens had a hint of lemon that made me re-​think how I make my wilted greens. It was a great meal.
For that pretty basic meal cost us £ 69.
A little steep, but I’m a huge fan so once in awhile is worth it.

I guess I was expecting a lot more. Our server’s language was limited to yes please, and despite his attempt to seem polite, it was clear that he wasn’t really interested in what we wanted, but rather to get things over with.
Chips were alright, green beans were fairly well cooked as well.
As for the main entrees, the fish — which came whole, was fresh but lacked any particular «wow this is so great, I’d love to come back»
Most of the fair here seemed to be on the heavier side, and represented British cuisine. But to me, British cuisine represents the culture too — so if I really wanted to go out for British food, wouldn’t I go to a pub? Especially with the service anyhow.
Oh, and the dessert (we got a strawberry tart) — the strawberries a bit too mushy, the glaze overpowering, and the tart entirely soggy as if someone had left the custard sitting on the tart outside all day.