• About The Hedonist
  • Bar Talk-Where we’re drinking
    • The Polo Bar @ The Westbury
    • Pink Chihuahua
    • 69 Colebrooke Row – Review
    • The Bar at the George V Paris – Review
    • Duke’s Bar – Review
    • Bassoon Bar – Review
    • Banca – Review
    • THE EGERTON HOUSE BAR -Review
    • The Lucky Pig – Review
    • Beagle – Review
    • 214 Bermondsey – Review
  • London Restaurant Reviews
    • Caractère – Review Notting Hill
    • Patri – Review
    • Villa di Geggiano – Review
    • African Volcano @  Great Guns Social  
    • Beso – Review
    • Padella – Review
    • 28°-50° London Wine Workshop and Kitchen – Review
    • The Goring – Review
    • Freakscene – Review
    • CUB – Review
    • Tsukiji Sushi – Review
    • COYA Angel Court – Review
    • Nutbourne – Review
    • Galvin Bistrot de Luxe – Review
    • Palatino – Review
    • Lao Café – Review
    • Galvin at The Athenaeum – Review
    • 7 Park Place – Review
    • QP London – Review
    • Cinnamon Bazaar – Review
    • Chinese New Year @ Hakkasan
    • Dinner by Heston Blumenthal – Review
    • The Ritz @ Xmas – Review
    • Coriander – Review
    • El Parador – Review
    • Inamo – Review
    • Ostuni – Review
    • Chai Wu – Review
    • Shotgun BBQ – Review
    • Ormer Mayfair – Review
    • Review-The Angler
    • The Harcourt – Review
    • Pizzicotto – Review
    • The Painted Heron – Review
    • All Star Lanes – Review
    • Kurobuta Harvey Nichols – Review
    • Bangalore Express – Review
    • Zero Degrees – Review
    • Chakra – Review
    • Cottons Caribbean Restaurant and Salon de Rhum – Review
    • Lotus – Review
    • Charlotte’s W5 – Review
    • Massimo – Review
    • Brasserie Les 110 de Taillevent – Review
    • The Dalloway Terrace @ The Bloomsbury hotel – Review
    • Plum + Spilt Milk – Review
    • Bella Cosa – Review
    • Roka Aldwych – Review (with Bookatable)
    • Brasserie Gustave – Review
    • Muga – Review
    • Barrafina – Review
    • Charlotte’s Place – Review
    • The New St Grill – Review
    • The Lockhart – Review
    • Kêu – Review
    • The Richmond – Review
    • Allan Pickett @ Sanderson – Review
    • Scents of Summer Afternoon Tea @ The InterContinental London
    • Tartufi & Friends @ Harrods – Review
    • The Five Fields – Review
    • West Thirty Six – Review
    • Evoluzione @ Hotel Xenia Kensington – Review
    • Rex & Mariano – Review
    • Kitchen Table @ Bubbledogs – Review
    • John Doe – Review
    • Ceru – Review
    • Kouzu – Review
    • Enoteca Rabezzana – Review
    • Old Tom & English – Review
    • The Wallace – Review
    • Zaika – Review
    • Xmas at Boulestin – Review
    • Crocker’s Folly – Review
    • The Cavendish – Review
    • Laurent-Perrier at The New Angel – Review
    • Assado – Review
    • The Life Goddess – Review
    • Bubba Gump Shrimp Co – Review
    • Ember Yard – Review
    • The Palomar – Review
    • Blanchette – Review
    • Cannizaro House – Review
    • 1901 Restaurant at Andaz – Review
    • Notting Hill Kitchen – Review
    • The Guildford Arms – Review
    • Curry for Change @ Cafe Spice Namaste
    • Chotto Matte – Review
    • Lyle’s – Review
    • The Clove Club – Review
    • Quo Vadis – Review
    • Polpetto – Review
    • Osteria dell Angelo – Review
    • Amsterdam-Johannes Restaurant – Review
    • The Worlds End Market – Chelsea
    • Brigade Bar & Bistro- Review
    • La Polenteria – Review
    • Mele e Pere – Review
    • La Mancha – Review
    • The Well – Review
    • Harrods The Salad Kitchen – Review
    • Layla – Review
    • See Sushi – Review
    • Pescatori Mayfair – Review
    • Flesh & Buns – Review
    • Grain Store – Review
    • Acciuga – Review
    • Pizza Pilgrims – Review
    • Les Trois Garcons – Review
    • Little Social – Review
    • Review-Ametsa with Arzak Instruction
    • Review-Balthazar
    • Reviews-Brasserie Zedel
    • Review-Copita
    • Review-Hawksmoor Air St.
    • The Glasshouse – Review
    • Review-Coya
    • 214 Bermondsey – Review
  • Travel
    • Tuscany
      • Tuscany-A Florentine Feast with Anna Bini
      • Tuscany-Olive Oil Pressing in Pistoia-Olio Nuovo
      • Tuscany-Pecorino and Ricotta from the Pistoia Hills
  • Music
    • When A Gig Goes Wrong – Pop Music’s Hall of Shame
  • Follow me on Twitter

The Hedonist

Brasserie Gustave – Review

December 2, 2015 by Adrian

Brasserie Gustave                                                                        Chelsea

4 Sydney Street, SW3 6PP
http://www.brasserie-gustave.com//020 7352 1712Brasserie Gustave

Somewhere in the depths of my unconscious mind I have my own fantasy version of France. I am strapped down on a chaise longue being force fed Marrons Glaces by Leslie Caron whilst Edith Piaf warbles in the background. It’s a place I go when I need some respite from the Northern Line, Boris Johnson and assorted modern day horrors. Chef Laurence Glayzer and manager and sommelier Richard Weiss have gone one better creating their own imaginary France on a corner in Chelsea and Fiona (whose photos these are so thanks to her) and I have been invited to review.Brasserie Gustave interiorTheir Brasserie Gustave, named after the redoubtable Monsieur Eiffel of the tower, has mustard yellow walls, red banquettes and posters of the Orient Express on the wall in case. The menu reads like a rundown of the classic hits of French bourgeois gastronomy and to top it all Richard Weiss, who hails from Alsace, is a dead ringer for Green Card era Gerard Depardieu. If you don’t know what I’m talking about you’re too young and should read another blog.Brasserie Gustave MackerelI start with pickled mackerel with fennel, carrot and onion. This dish is insanely good and Fiona is only allowed a tiny taste. The pickling has left the fish really tender with a piquancy that cuts through its natural oilinessBrasserie Gustave SnailsFiona goes for half a dozen garlic and parsley buttered snails out of the shell, their naked shame protected by tiny croutons and a puff pastry lid. In her blog she says that six were enough but confidentially she let it slip that she could easily have eaten a dozen of the little gastropods which were oozing sauce and sensuality.Brasserie Gustave GrouseSeeing Fiona’s reaction to the snails Richard realised she was a game old bird and proposed for her main dish their last grouse of the season ‘roasted in the English style’. Still pink on the bone it was full flavoured but tender and came with game chips that didn’t last very long on the plate.Brasserie Gustave CodPour moi a dish of salted cod came poached in milk and served with a black olive crust. It tasted like the sort of winter dish you would pine for as the bitter north-westerly Mistral wind chilled you to the bone-that’s if you were living in one of those Provençal hilltop villages. I don’t but I pretend…Brasserie Gustave Crepes Suzette prepDo I have any regrets in life? Yes. Not naming either of my daughters Suzette. The making of a Crepes Suzette is one of the great moments of gastro-theatre and one I strive to experience as often as possible. It’s as close to a religious experience as I am ever likely to have. It’s a baptism by fire and the holy trinity of orange, pancake and alcohol makes sinners of us all.Brasserie Gustave Crepes Suzette 2With the recent closures of Racine and Chabrot Bistrot d’Amis the banking quartiers of west London have lost two redoubtable outposts of French gastronomy. However if you are looking for something authentic then Brasserie Gustave more than fits the bill, which isn’t cheap-but in this neck of the words why would it be!

4.5 / 5 stars     

Filed Under: Restaurants & Bars Tagged With: Brasserie Gustave, Chelsea

Tags

Acciuga Belgravia Brighton Bruno Loubet Camden Chelsea Chiswick Cocktails Covent Garden Curry D@D Fitzrovia Gallery Mess gin Hackney Harrison's Harrods Hoxton Indian Islington Italian Japanese Kensington King's Rd London London-Unattached Marylebone Mayfair Namaaste Kitchen Negroni Notting Hill pan-asian Peru Peruvian Pizza Restaurant sake Sam's Shoreditch Sloane Square Soho tapas The Hedonist The Saatchi Gallery Tony Conigliaro

Copyright © 2021 · Magazine Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in