Noble Rot Soho

"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

"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—smoked mackerel pâté, Toulouse sausage, braised savoy cabbage, and a sour cherry and almond roulade—and you have the perfect early evening to before-bedtime venue." - jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, daisy meager

"Two or three courses: £22/£26 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." - jake missing, sinead cranna, rianne shlebak

"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

"In a city full of rising costs and villainous landlords, the consistent value and deliciousness of Noble Rot’s set lunch menu shines through. The Greek Street restaurant is a yellow-lit, velvet-clad space that harks back to long lunches of Soho old. How long said lunch goes on is up to you. The daily changing, European-leaning two-course set menu is £22 (£26 for three)—and you can eat anything from poached chicken with aioli to apricot tarte tatin— while the wine list is much, much longer." - Oliver Feldman, Heidi Lauth Beasley, Jake Oliver, Rianne Shlebak