london
Mere
• European• Fitzrovia
About the restaurant
Seasoned chef Monica Galetti’s first restaurant serves fine-dining food with an eclectic array of influences, from her native New Zealand and the Pacific Islands to Europe and the UK. A six-course tasting menu, priced at £85, is a great way to experience the best of it.
Mere is a collaboration between Galetti and her husband David, who hails from the Jura region of France. The couple worked together at Le Gavroche, where Monica was a sous chef under Michel Roux Jr, and David was a sommelier.
Mere is located among a glut of great fine-dining restaurants on Charlotte Street, including The Ninth and Kitchen Table. Its top floor is a stylish bar with a list of creative cocktails, which makes the perfect place for a pre-dinner drink, while down the spiral staircase is where the bulk of the action is, in a crisply decorated dining room full of marble tables.
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Critic reviews
The Infatuation
The thing is, the people behind Mere have a lot of experience and they’re well-known. And when we say ‘well-known’, we mean, ‘she’s been on the telly and you might have panic-bought your sibling a copy of her cookbook for Christmas’.
Standard
Mere, at the less hectic northern end of Charlotte Street, is a grown-up place with a menu and a wine list the chef rightly and refreshingly describes as “pretty straightforward”.
The Telegraph
The steak was great, but very small. In fact, this was true of the dishes in general: beautiful to look at, but not a lot there
Time Out
This, the first restaurant proper from Monica Galetti – late of Mayfair stalwart Le Gavroche and some tellybox thing called ‘MasterChef’ – is an oddly old-fashioned place.
The Nudge
Confidently dropped on Charlotte “London’s restaurant epicentre” Street, the interior bleeds class, with muted colours, understated lighting, and traditional Samoan artwork on the walls (Monica was born there).
- 74 Charlotte St
- W1T 4QH
- London
- +44 20 7268 6565
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