The Rib Room Bar & Restaurant - London

The rib room bar restaurant is located in the heart of knightsbridge, at the corner of the sloane street and cadogan place – for over 55 years feeding and entertaining customers and visiting this city. from the sloane street you cannot miss the restaurant located on the front of the jumeriah carlton tower hotel. enter the restaurant and discover the most magnificent marble top bar for cocktails, plough green leather chairs and decadent mirror walls. it is all very gentlemans club inside, with a nod on the classic American steakhouse.

It was as jay rayner says ‘an essay in the finer points of dull’. it only occurred to be later that the set course has a notable absence of ribs. that’s a bit like going to steakhouse that serves a set lunch without steak.

For every Nobu and The Ivy that is name-checked as a celebrity hang-out, there exists a far less conspicuous restaurant providing the same, if not better dining experience for those moments when London's rich and famous want to dine without the blinding f

If they want to feel like they want to get on the set of a james bond film set, they need to visit it. blooming brilliance is up to the 2nd august 2015, but don't let them stop visiting it. we sat in the rib room for a drink that already felt like a secret spy and ordered a martini, not stirred, but unfortunately it comes so that I could not say the iconic line. the martini with an orange was shaken a beautiful drink for me, during my wonderful stay at the bar too sip. we talked to rihards, the barman who was a fountain of knowing about the hotel and every cocktail and drinking behind the bar. he introduced us...read more

The haggis here is beautiful, served with a wonderfully pink loin of venison. My favourite course was the cullen skink an interpretation really, served like a croquette with scallops. Lovely.