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Picture Marylebone - Removed from website August 2021 (closed) - Marylebone, London

Upscale British-European Restaurant 

Category : Restaurant Cuisine : British
Address : 19 New Cavendish St., Marylebone, London, W1G 9TZ, UNITED KINGDOM
Web : www.picturerestaurant.co.uk/menu/marylebone
Opening Times : Mon–Sat: 12pm–2.30pm / 6pm–10.30pm


  • Picture Marylebone - Removed from website August 2021 (closed)  one of Innerplace's exclusive restaurants in London
  • Picture Marylebone - Removed from website August 2021 (closed)  one of Innerplace's exclusive restaurants in London
  • Picture Marylebone - Removed from website August 2021 (closed)  one of Innerplace's exclusive restaurants in London

With the memory of its elder sibling still fresh in our minds, we walked over to New Cavendish Street to visit the freshly opened Picture - which is lending new energy to the seam of classy shops and top bistros along Marylebone High Street. As with the original restaurant, Picture offers delicious fine dining at an incredibly reasonable price, with a set of alumni that share a wealth of experience working in two of W1's most exceptional value Michelin-starred restaurants. Alan Christie and Colin Kelly rattled the pans as head chefs at Arbutus and Wild Honey respectively, whilst the front of house is run by Tom Slegg, who formerly worked as restaurant manager at both locations. They're continuing the mission they embarked upon in Fitzrovia, offering mouthwatering bites with one of the least expensive six course tasting menus in London (as well as a great a la carte option of course).

We visited early on a Tuesday night and the room was already humming, with only a couple of tables available which were promptly snapped up. The room shares common DNA with its sister restaurant, offering a calm, grown-up ambience in which to tuck into their modern European food. The walls are white, the light, when not natural, is provided by exposed filament bulbs, and there's a nice wooden bar area where staff will mix up your drinks. We were a bit more interested in the wine, however, and were greeted with a mineral bottle of Azabache Verdejo Viura  from Rioja, which paired tremendously well with our chilled summer vegetable soup - served in an earthenware cup with an artful drizzle of cream. This was  followed by a modish dish of charred cauliflower on a bed of sea purslane, peas and shallots which was as flavourful as it was nutritious.

The high point of the meal came in the form of lightly smoked pork served in a terrine-style tranche beside with a clever arrangement of watercress, radish and wisps of pork skin. It packed a saline punch with every mouthful. Stonebass with a ratatouille style accompaniment of courgette, aubergine, and black olive was lovely, our only gripe being that maybe it should have come before the pork skin, as it felt like a bit of a step down in terms of big taste (a very small gripe indeed). We then enjoyed the bovine wallop of 28 day aged beef with bone marrow crumb and red wine sauce, a dish we know well from the other restaurant, and a coup de grace of dark chocolate mousse with caramel crumble, another one of our favourites.

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