What Does Prix Fixe Mean? Prix Fixe Menus in London
Prix fixe means fixed price: two or three courses for one set sum. Eight London prix fixe menus from £18.95, from a 1663 Highgate pub to a Soho bistro.
Prix fixe is French for "fixed price": a menu of two or three courses, chosen from a short list, for one set price. Provender in Wanstead serves two or three courses for £19.50 to £25.50, The Flask in Highgate £18.95 to £22.95, and Cloth in Smithfield £24 for two courses or £29 for three.
Last verified 19 September 2026. Prices and hours come from each restaurant’s own published menu and are refreshed nightly against the catalogue.
At a glance
Restaurants in the Michelin Guide come first, then the rest by headline price from lowest to highest.
| Restaurant | Cuisine | Price | Courses | Days | Served |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provender Bib Gourmand | French | £19.50 to £25.50 | 2-3 courses | Mon to Sat | Lunch 12pm to 4pm |
| The Flask | British Gastropub | £18.95 to £22.95 | 2-3 courses | Mon to Fri | Lunch 11am to 5pm |
| Olympic Studios | Modern European | £19 to £23 | 2-3 courses | Mon to Fri | Prix Fixe From 11.30am |
| Blanchette Soho | French | £19.50 to £23 | 2-3 courses | Mon to Sat | Prix Fixe 12pm to 3pm, 5pm to 6pm |
| Soutine | French Bistro | £19.75 to £24.75 | 2-3 courses | Mon to Fri | Lunch & Dinner all day |
| Wright Brothers Battersea | Seafood | £22 to £26 | 2-3 courses | Mon to Fri | Prix Fixe 12pm to 6pm |
| Cloth | Modern British | £24 to £29 | 2-3 courses | Mon to Fri | Lunch 12pm to 2.45pm |
| Bellanger | French Bistro | £28.50 | 2-3 courses | Sun | Sunday Lunch From 12pm |
01 | Provender
Wanstead | French | Bib Gourmand
£19.50 to £25.50, 2-3 courses, Mon to Sat, Lunch 12pm to 4pm.
Provender writes its prix fixe around the market, so the dishes change with what comes in and each day's menu goes up on its Instagram stories. It serves two or three courses £19.50 to £25.50, Mon to Sat, 12pm to 4pm.
02 | The Flask
Highgate | British Gastropub
£18.95 to £22.95, 2-3 courses, Mon to Fri, Lunch 11am to 5pm.
Parts of The Flask date to 1663, and its stable block keeps two 17th century horseboxes. The French term has made it onto a pub menu here: the Prix Fixe, launched this year, is two or three courses £18.95 to £22.95, Mon to Fri, 11am to 5pm.
03 | Olympic Studios
Barnes | Modern European
£19 to £23, 2-3 courses, Mon to Fri, Prix Fixe From 11.30am.
Olympic Studios opened as Byfeld Hall in 1906, spent 1966 to 2009 as a recording studio and reopened as a cinema in 2013. Its set menu is called the Cinema Express: two or three courses £19 to £23, Mon to Fri, From 11.30am. The steak and frites main carries a supplement.
04 | Blanchette Soho
Soho | French
£19.50 to £23, 2-3 courses, Mon to Sat, Prix Fixe 12pm to 3pm, 5pm to 6pm.
Sharing plates are the habit at Blanchette Soho, which Hot Dinners describes as a menu of "French tapas". The set menu packs them into two or three courses £19.50 to £23, Mon to Sat, 12pm to 3pm, 5pm to 6pm. That second window is the hour before the theatre.
05 | Soutine
St John's Wood | French Bistro
£19.75 to £24.75, 2-3 courses, Mon to Fri, Lunch & Dinner all day.
At Soutine, the prix fixe changes monthly with the season and never stops for the afternoon: two or three courses £19.75 to £24.75, Mon to Fri, All day. The café looks over St John's Wood Church Gardens.
06 | Wright Brothers Battersea
Battersea | Seafood
£22 to £26, 2-3 courses, Mon to Fri, Prix Fixe 12pm to 6pm.
Oysters and mussels come to a fixed price at Wright Brothers Battersea, whose weekday set menu draws on the dishes it is known for, burgers included. The restaurant says its fish comes straight off the Brixham day boats. Two or three courses £22 to £26, Mon to Fri, 12pm to 6pm.
07 | Cloth
Smithfield | Modern British
£24 to £29, 2-3 courses, Mon to Fri, Lunch 12pm to 2.45pm.
Wine leads at Cloth, a bistro beside St Bartholomew the Great whose list runs from German Riesling to northern Italian Nebbiolo, with bottles to take away. Lunch is two or three courses £24 to £29, Mon to Fri, 12pm to 2.45pm.
08 | Bellanger
Islington | French Bistro
£28.50, 2-3 courses, Sun, Sunday Lunch From 12pm.
Red leather banquettes and dark wood panelling line Bellanger on Islington Green, where the kitchen takes its cue from the regions of France. Its prix fixe carries on into the weekend evenings: two or three courses £19.95 to £23.95, Mon to Sun, Mon to Fri from 11.45am, Sat to Sun after 5pm.
What prix fixe means on a London menu
Prix fixe is French for "fixed price". The restaurant sets a short list of dishes for each course, the diner picks one from each, and the price of the food is known before ordering. In London it is typically two or three courses, each with its own price.
Prix fixe and set menu mean the same thing, and London menus use both; What is a set menu? covers the wider term. À la carte, by contrast, prices every dish on its own.
A prix fixe usually runs in set hours, often a weekday lunch window. Some carry a supplement on one dish, as with the steak and frites at Olympic Studios. Blanchette Soho serves its menu again for the hour before the theatre, one of the pre-theatre set menus in London.
How London kitchens fill a fixed price
The fixed price sets the shape of a menu, never its contents, and each kitchen fills that shape with its own habits. Provender follows the market and posts each day's menu to its Instagram stories. Soutine changes its prix fixe every month with the season.
The setting shapes a lunch as much as the dishes do. The Flask is a Grade II listed pub named for the flasks once sold there to collect spring water around Highgate and Hampstead Heath. Bellanger is modelled on the neighbourhood pavement cafés of France.
The name promises one thing, a price known before the first course arrives. What fills it is up to the kitchen: a market lunch in Wanstead, oysters by the river in Battersea, Riesling from an independent producer beside St Bartholomew the Great. The set menu guides sort the rest of London by area and occasion.
Questions people ask
What does prix fixe mean?
Prix fixe is French for "fixed price". It describes a menu with a short choice at each course, usually two or three courses, sold for one set price. Provender in Wanstead serves two or three courses for £19.50 to £25.50, Monday to Saturday lunch.
Is prix fixe the same as a set menu?
Yes. Both describe a fixed number of courses, chosen from a short list, for one price. The Flask in Highgate calls its menu a Prix Fixe, while Olympic Studios in Barnes calls its version the Cinema Express set menu.
How do you pronounce prix fixe?
Say "pree feeks". The x at the end of prix is silent, and fixe rhymes with "weeks".
When are prix fixe menus served in London?
Often at weekday lunch and in the early evening. Soutine in St John's Wood serves its prix fixe all day Monday to Friday. Blanchette Soho serves one from 12pm to 3pm and 5pm to 6pm, Monday to Saturday.
Is a prix fixe the same as a tasting menu?
No. A tasting menu is a long run of small courses, usually with no choice. A prix fixe offers a choice at each of two or three courses, as at Cloth in Smithfield: £24 for two courses or £29 for three, weekday lunch.