New London set menus, from an £18.95 steakhouse lunch to The Wolseley on Piccadilly
Six set menus added to All Set this month, from £18.95 at Gaucho to £35 at Kutir in Chelsea
October has brought some fantastic new names to All Set. A grand café in a former car showroom on Piccadilly, a garden brasserie on the King's Road, an Italian seafood kitchen in Bermondsey, a Latin American dining room on Berkeley Square, a Chelsea townhouse cooking from across India's regions, and an Argentinian steakhouse on the river beside Tower Bridge.
Between them they cover a quick weekday lunch, a long afternoon and an evening out, across six neighbourhoods. Every price, day and window below was checked against the venue's own menu on 15 October.
01 | Gaucho
Tower Bridge
Set lunch: two courses £18.95 or three £20.95, Monday to Saturday from 12pm.
Gaucho's Tower Bridge restaurant sits at More London on the south bank, with the river and the bridge right outside, about ten minutes from London Bridge station. The set lunch opens with a brilliantly crisp squid chicharrón, then a salmon fish cake with a poached egg and red pepper confit, and a dulce de leche pancake to finish. The same two and three course set runs at Gaucho's other London restaurants too, from Piccadilly and Covent Garden to Richmond and Hampstead, each with its own listing on All Set.
02 | The Ivy Chelsea Garden
Chelsea
Cool Britannia: two courses £19.96, Monday to Friday and Sunday, from late morning until close.
The Ivy Chelsea Garden takes its name from the gorgeous garden behind it on the King's Road, fourteen minutes from South Kensington. Cool Britannia is the set to know: bang bang chicken with cucumber, peanuts and chilli, glazed onion soup or smoked mackerel mousse to start, then a hand-rolled Cumberland sausage with mash and crispy onions, or pan-roasted sea bream with a roasted red pepper and Calabrian chilli sauce. Doughnuts After Dark, pumpkin-spiced with dark chocolate sauce, add a third course for £8.95. It runs from 11.30am on weekdays and 11am on Sundays right through to close, for tables of up to eight.
03 | Baccalà
Bermondsey
Midweek Deal: two courses £25 or three £30, Tuesday to Friday, 12pm to 5pm.
An Italian seafood restaurant cooking from the coast, with handmade pasta and a list of artisanal Italian wines, eleven minutes from London Bridge. The midweek set starts with baccalà mantecato, the whipped salt cod the restaurant is named for, with fennel, or a chickpea salad with celery and grilled vegetables. Then mezze maniche with mussels, sweet garlic and courgette, or rigatoni with aubergine, basil and pine nuts, and a lemon sorbet for the third course. The window stays open until 5pm, which makes it as good for a late lunch as an early one.
04 | The Wolseley
Mayfair
Prix fixe: two courses £29.95 or three £34.95, lunch and dinner every day.
The Wolseley keeps the grand café tradition alive in a former 1920s car showroom on Piccadilly, two minutes from Green Park,. The prix fixe is served at lunch every day and again each evening: French onion soup with gratinéed croûtons or salmon rillettes, then pan-seared sea bream with bouillabaisse sauce or chicken fricassée, and an incredible salted caramel éclair to finish. Lunch runs from 11.30am to 3pm and dinner from 5.30pm, until 11pm Wednesday to Saturday.
05 | Amazónico
Mayfair
The Ejecutivo lunch: three dishes £34, Monday to Friday, 12pm to 3pm.
Latin American cooking threaded with Asian and Mediterranean influences, on Berkeley Square and five minutes from Green Park. The Ejecutivo business lunch arrives with a seasonal gazpacho while you wait, then two plates from a list that runs from hamachi tiradito and a classic sea bass ceviche to wagyu empanadas, and a main such as black mint marinated lamb chops or sea bass nikkei in a garlic and ginger broth. Three dishes for £34 on Berkeley Square is a brilliant way to spend a weekday lunch.
06 | Kutir
Chelsea
Linner menu: three courses £35, every day, 1pm to 4pm.
Kutir cooks from across India's regions in a Chelsea townhouse on a quiet street six minutes from Sloane Square, with its signature elephant plates on the tables. The Linner menu, a lunch that runs into the afternoon, brings prawn masala with Roscoff onion and coconut, sea bass Neelgiri with jaggery and curry leaf, and coconut payasam to finish. It is served every day from 1pm to 4pm for tables of up to six.
All six are on All Set with the full menu, the serving window and a direct booking link on each. Amazónico is weekdays only, Baccalà runs Tuesday to Friday, Gaucho Monday to Saturday, and The Wolseley and Kutir serve their sets every day.