Chocolate Week 2026: six London set menus from £19.50
A gold-leafed chocolate moelleux in Wanstead and a dark chocolate pavé by Richmond Park, from £19.50
Chocolate Week lands in mid-October, and the surest place to find a serious chocolate dessert in London is at the end of a set menu, where the kitchen has already decided how the meal finishes. Provender in Wanstead keeps a double chocolate moelleux topped with gold leaf among its puddings, and its prix fixe runs at lunch and at dinner.
Taken together, these kitchens show two ways of treating the sweet course. Some put chocolate at the centre of the fixed price, like the chocolate cremosa that closes the sample menu at Trinity Upstairs and the dark chocolate pavé at The Dysart Petersham. Others have a signature pudding with no cocoa in it at all. For Chocolate Week, that is the contrast worth knowing before you book.
01 | Provender
Wanstead
Two or three courses £19.50 to £25.50, Mon to Sat, 12pm to 4pm.
Escargots in garlic, parsley and tarragon butter, onion soup finished with Gruyère, then flat iron steak frites with Béarnaise, Roquefort or poivre vert, at Provender on Wanstead High Street. The prix fixe follows the market, so the day's dishes change with what comes in and are posted to the restaurant's Instagram stories. Time Out found a double chocolate moelleux topped with gold leaf among the desserts, and the Michelin Guide calls the whole operation a little piece of France in Wanstead.
02 | Trinity Upstairs
Clapham
Three courses £40, Sun, 1pm arrival.
The Sunday Lunch Club at Trinity Upstairs changes every week, cooked to order from an open island kitchen in the dining room above Trinity in Clapham Old Town. Small plates are built for sharing, and the sample menu ends on a chocolate cremosa with milk ice cream. Absolutely's review found the same cremosa with salted caramel ice cream, a measure of how often the card is rewritten.
03 | The Dysart Petersham
Richmond
Three or four courses £75 to £89.50, Thu to Sat, 12pm to 2.15pm.
A dark chocolate pavé with cumin caramel and vanilla ice cream sits across several of the menus at The Dysart Petersham, in a 1904 Arts and Crafts building on the edge of Richmond Park with the Thames in view. The kitchen reduces its own stocks and sauces, and the Michelin Guide singles those sauces out, honey and verjus with John Dory among them. Leaded windows, pastel walls and a log burning stove do the rest.
04 | Pied à Terre
Fitzrovia
Three courses £49.50, Wed to Sat, Wed to Fri 12pm to 2pm, Sat 12pm to 2.30pm.
Thirty-five years on Charlotte Street, and Pied à Terre marks it with an anniversary menu of an amuse bouche, a starter and a main, written in full omnivore and plant-based versions at the same price. Dessert or cheese is an addition rather than a course, so the chocolate here is a decision made at the table. On the omnivore menu it is a dessert named L'Or Noir du Criolla, and on the plant-based menu a passionfruit crémeux with 80% Mayan chocolate. Ask for the Anniversary Menu when you book, since it is not offered by default.
05 | The Ninth
Fitzrovia
Two or three courses £39 to £45, Mon to Sat, 12pm to 2.30pm.
Not every kitchen answers the week with cocoa. On Charlotte Street, The Ninth finishes on a pain perdu with tonka bean ice cream, the dessert the restaurant itself calls famous. Before it, the set lunch runs to girolle tagliatelle with a hazelnut autumn truffle pesto and chargrilled pork neck with king oyster mushrooms. The Michelin Guide likens the two floors of closely set tables to a lively bistro de-luxe.
06 | Wild Honey St James
St James's
Three courses £45 to £60, Tue to Sat, 5pm to 6.15pm.
In a Grade II listed former banking hall on Pall Mall, Wild Honey St James is known for a custard tart the Michelin Guide says would cause protests on Pall Mall if it ever left the menu. The card changes daily with what arrives from suppliers each morning, and the higher tier adds a glass of Laurent Perrier Champagne. Geometric sphere chandeliers hang over the dining room.
Chocolate Week is a good excuse, and a fixed price is a better one. Order the pudding you came for, and where the kitchen's pride is a custard tart or a pain perdu, order that instead. More set lunches across London are on the lunch list.