Noble Rot Soho

"The longstanding gold standard of set lunches, Noble Rot offers one of London’s best deals at their restaurants in Bloomsbury, Soho, and Mayfair. If you’ve got £30-ish knocking about, this is where you spend it. You won’t get better-value fancy-ish restaurant cooking anywhere else. The set lunch menus change daily but expect lovely, light-touch, European-leaning things like braised chicken leg with beans and aioli before finishing with some kind of tart or homely pudding." - jake missing, sinead cranna, rianne shlebak

"Noble Rot's Soho location is right in the thick of it on Greek Street. Despite no official bar area, this sibling spot to the original Bloomsbury location retains the magical sounds of chatter and clinking glasses, alongside the reassuring glug of wine being poured. Add in the European menu—chicken liver parfait, ricotta gnocchi, roast pink fir potatoes, and a chocolate mousse with brandy prunes—and you have the perfect early evening to before-bedtime venue." - jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, daisy meager

"Chocolate mousse, brandy prune & hazelnut biscuit “Like all first-rate new media food writers - sorry, bloggers - I judge how good the food I’ve eaten is by the pictures I’ve taken, rather than by my tongue. Only in most cases, it’s not the images like a perfectly captured tarte tatin, so glistening, so bronzed, that a teenager might blu-tac it to their wall. It’s the ones where there’s a blur of hands. Or a clean plate in memorandum. It’s the ones like above, where I’ve had to shoddily zoom in on another picture of dessert to look for evidence. It’s Gregg Wallace presents Watchdog. The scene of this criminally crap photo was the new Noble Rot on Greek Street. The victim: their chocolate mousse. It was described to us as a mousse and ganache hybrid, but a better description would be ‘a non-sharer’. The mousse is sweet and not too rich - a milk and dark mashup - and the texture is temptingly spreadable. Yes, I have been thinking about it on toast. Alongside there’s a shot of brandy masquerading as a prune, plus some cream and a perfectly crisp biscuit. The details are unimportant though. What’s important is that you’re holding a spoon, not your phone, when it’s put on the table”. - JM" - oliver feldman, heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, rianne shlebak

"Maximum Capacity: 10 Minimum Spend: £500, and a £250 deposit on reservation. Minimum spend increases to £1000 over the festive period. Noble Rot serves some of the best bread in London. Plus some delightful slip soles, deeply sexy leather banquette seating, and an award-winning wine list. You’ll find the private dining area on the second floor of the exceptional Soho spot, adjacent to the self-proclaimed ‘wine cellar of dreams’. For smaller groups you can kick it a la carte, or if you’re rolling with more than six people, choose a set menu of its modern European dishes, or a reduced a la carte menu. " - heidi lauth beasley, sinead cranna

"Unless your surname is Roux, you’re unlikely to find better value fancy-ish restaurant cooking in London than at Noble Rot. The Soho location is a convenient middle ground for everyone, and the daily-changing set lunch menu is a steal at £22 for three courses. Expect lovely, light touch things like braised chicken leg with beans and aioli, or poached trout and beetroot salad, as well a wine list that will ensure this catch-up goes on, and on, and on." - heidi lauth beasley, rianne shlebak, jake missing, daisy meager