The Don Restaurant & Bistro

The Don Restaurant & Bistro Restaurant Review:

There is plenty to like about The Don, which occupies the building that once stored Britain’s favorite sherries and ports. It is the grown-up part of the group that also owns the Bleeding Heart Tavern. The downstairs vaulted cellar houses a charming bistro serving the likes of parsnip and apple soup and a grilled lamb burger to an appreciative clientele. Upstairs, huge windows looking out onto a small courtyard make the main restaurant, with its striking art on the walls, light and bright. Try the sliced breast of wood pigeon with poached quail egg and game consommé, or wild mushrooms in a shallot sauce, then go on to the freshest fish, or cannon of lamb with aubergine mousse and rosemary sauce. Quantities are generous, so all the more excuse to wash it down with a seriously good wine. A 350-bin list trawls the world and also has bottles from the restaurant’s own vineyard in New Zealand.