Address: Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
Website: Visit restaurant website
Telephone: +44 20 7654 7800
Modern glitzy restaurant located in the Royal Festival Hall with a spectacular panorama across the River Thames… from skylon-restaurant.co.uk
Latest reviews of Skylon
Chris Pople, Cheese and Biscuits
19 December 2012
It was, (…), a complete waste of time and money, an anachronistic bear-trap of a place hoovering up Southbank revellers while their guard is down after too many cups of Christmas Market Glühwein. Well, at least that was my mistake. But it won’t be one I’ll make again…
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Time Out Editors, Time Out
18 October 2012
Whether you’re perching by the bar, tucking into steak and fries at the grill, or marking an occasion with a fine dining meal – it is the marvellous vistas that make this venue so memorable…
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Andy Hayler, andyhayler.com
13 August 2010
Wild salmon from Scotland was surprisingly limited in flavour, though cooked correctly, served with a watercress cream and pomme mousseline (3/10). Chateaubriand was cooked well enough but had only fair quality beef…
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Hugh Wright, TwelvePointFivePercent
15 August 2009
It was all exceptionally good to eat and exceptionally well presented (…) I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again for the record: I love Skylon, all of it, from the restaurant to the grill via the bar, and can’t recommend it highly enough…
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Time Out Editors, Time Out
18 October 2012
Whether you’re perching by the bar, tucking into steak and fries at the grill, or marking an occasion with a fine dining meal – it is the marvellous vistas that make this venue so memorable…
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Mark Bolland, Evening Standard
19 November 2007
All in all, I would sing Skylon’s praises: it strikes exactly the right note…
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Matthew Norman (Guardian), The Guardian
29 September 2007
Lamb in three cuts -shoulder, fillet and kidneys – was “lovely and pink, and very good indeed, although not improved by the vegetables”, which included a gratin of Swiss chard…
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Andrew Billen, London Magazine
1 September 2007
If the executive chef Helena Puolakka, late of Harvey Nichols, is going to present an English/European menu so unvarnished that it includes sea bass, steak and chicken supreme, her cooking had better be extraordinary. It isn’t. It’s ordinary…
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Giles Coren, The Times
30 June 2007
They use great ingredients here, and you have to pay for that, but the prices for these well-made brasserie standards are still pretty startling…
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AA Gill, The Sunday Times
17 June 2007
Bland is too exclamatory a word for what it actually tasted like. Testicular froth is the leitmotiv of the kitchen. Everything has been whipped into ecstatic spurts of warm lather…
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Mark Palmer, The Telegraph
9 June 2007
The chilled pea and mint soup comes with a little wafer carrying a piece of terrine that collapses into the green abyss; pan-fried foie gras with smoked eel and Granny Smith salad is wonderfully light but packed with flavour…
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Richard & Peter, Harden's
30 May 2007
Everything – with the exception of a rather unremarkable sticky toffee pudding – was done very well indeed. In fact, we almost came away thinking that we’d like to come back and try the fine dining…
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Fay Maschler, Evening Standard
30 May 2007
It was a particular pleasure to eat food this fine with graceful cutlery designed by David Mellor, drink coffee from a Nick Munro Skylon-inspired silver coffee pot…
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What the Bloggers say
Chris Pople, Cheese and Biscuits
19 December 2012
It was, (…), a complete waste of time and money, an anachronistic bear-trap of a place hoovering up Southbank revellers while their guard is down after too many cups of Christmas Market Glühwein. Well, at least that was my mistake. But it won’t be one I’ll make again…
Read full review »
Andy Hayler, andyhayler.com
13 August 2010
Wild salmon from Scotland was surprisingly limited in flavour, though cooked correctly, served with a watercress cream and pomme mousseline (3/10). Chateaubriand was cooked well enough but had only fair quality beef…
Read full review »
Hugh Wright, TwelvePointFivePercent
15 August 2009
It was all exceptionally good to eat and exceptionally well presented (…) I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again for the record: I love Skylon, all of it, from the restaurant to the grill via the bar, and can’t recommend it highly enough…
Read full review »