{"id":14796,"date":"2011-04-15T19:10:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T18:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=14796"},"modified":"2021-11-01T22:46:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T22:46:22","slug":"bistro-bruno-loubet-the-zetter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=14796","title":{"rendered":"Bistro Bruno Loubet @ The Zetter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Loubet&#8217;s restaurant at <a title=\"The Zetter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thezetter.com\/en\/restaurant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Zetter<\/a> has had some excellent reviews. Indeed it was voted 3rd Best Restaurant in the UK at the National Restaurant Awards, just behind <a title=\"The Ledbury\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=13066\" target=\"_self\">The Ledbury<\/a> and <a title=\"The Fat Duck\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=803\" target=\"_self\">The Fat Duck<\/a>.\u00a0 That seemed a bit odd to me I have to admit, as this is a very different type of restaurant to the fine dining establishments I have just mentioned.\u00a0 Bistro Bruno Loubets is a &#8220;proper&#8221; bistro that serves good homely french food. It&#8217;s not fine dining, nor is it trying to be.<\/p>\n<p>We visited on a Monday lunch time and were on the whole surrounded by affluent dinners enjoying business lunches. \u00a0 The tables are very close together, so you can not help but overhear conversations. I picked up a least one investment tip \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>The staff are friendly and efficient, you could probably even manage a one hour turn around if you needed to here.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-14796 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040291.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040291-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040306.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040299-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040301.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tn_P1040301-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>For starters I had a snails, meatballs and mushroom dish, a bit wintry for the lovely spring weather, but very tasty all the same. My companion had the Beetroot ravioli, which was lighter and more suited to the climate, it was accompanied by a fresh rocket salad. For main course he ordered the braised oxtail stuffed with cabbage and I had roast rabbit crumbed with almond and &#8220;forgotten&#8221; winter vegetables, that included <a title=\"Atomic Red Carrots\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seedaholic.com\/carrot-atomic-red.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">atomic red carrots<\/a> and some type of root vegetable I did not recognise.<\/p>\n<p>We moved on to dessert, I had a very light Tarte Tatin with cinnamon ice cream and my companion ordered the white chocolate and passion fruit mousse with raspberry sauce. We accompanied this with a small and reasonably priced bottle of <a title=\"Domaine de l'Ancienne Cure 2007\" href=\"http:\/\/www.josephbarneswines.com\/sweet-\/france\/the-south-west\/domaine-de-l%27ancienne-cure-monbazillac-2007-%27jour-des-fruits%27-%2812-bottle%29-.aspx\">Domaine de l&#8217;Ancienne Cure 2007. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>We then went on to explore the surrounding area.\u00a0 In the same square you have <a title=\"The Modern Pantry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themodernpantry.co.uk\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Modern Pantry<\/a> which\u00a0 looked inviting and the rather interesting building opposite is the Priory Church of St John which is part of the <a title=\"Museum of St Johns\" href=\"http:\/\/www.museumstjohn.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Museum of the order of St Johns<\/a>.\u00a0 The Zetter has also expanded into the square with its sister venue <a title=\"The Zetter Townhouse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thezettertownhouse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Zetter Town House.<\/a> which has a small rather quirky cocktail bar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Top page - Noexpert.co.uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\">Return to top page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Loubet&#8217;s restaurant at The Zetter has had some excellent reviews. Indeed it was voted 3rd Best Restaurant in the UK at the National Restaurant Awards, just behind The Ledbury and The Fat Duck.\u00a0 That seemed a bit odd to me I have to admit, as this is a very different type of restaurant to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=14796\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bistro Bruno Loubet @ The Zetter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,356,8],"tags":[505,528,51,529,530,432,504,531],"class_list":["post-14796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london","category-out-door-seating","category-uk","tag-bistro-bruno-loubet","tag-domaine-de-lancienne-cure","tag-fat-duck","tag-modern-pantry","tag-museum-of-the-order-of-st-john","tag-the-ledbury","tag-the-zetter","tag-zetter-townhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14796"}],"version-history":[{"count":133,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30081,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796\/revisions\/30081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}