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Rochelle Canteen Shoreditch
• British• Shoreditch
About the restaurant
Rochelle Canteen started almost by accident – co-founders Margot Henderson and Melanie Arnold were offered the site by chance by a friend in the early days of running a successful catering company, which they still operate from the restaurant.
Co-founder Margot Henderson is a titan of the London food scene, having worked at The French House Dining Room with her husband and St John chef-patron Fergus Henderson. The couple were both awarded an OBE for services to culinary arts in the 2021 honours list.
Rochelle Canteen's food is strictly seasonal, with most dishes designed to share and menus changing regularly. The style continues the kind of modern British cooking Henderson pioneered at the French House, with a nose-to-tail philosophy and fish cooked whole for the table to share.
Reviews from the Web
Critic reviews
The Infatuation
Rochelle Canteen is one of our favourite restaurants in London. It’s a place that we only associate with good things. Things like free-flowing glasses of crémant, slabs of terrine, and three hour meals in the converted bike shed of an old school.
The Guardian
I love the informality of the cooking, its absolute confidence to be itself: a little messy, entirely unfussy, wholly enjoyable. Rochelle Canteen’s food is nourishing for body and soul, and the breakfast- and lunch-only restaurant is enormous fun
Standard
After locating the buzzer that gains you entry, expect an artsy crowd and a menu that changes daily, offering innovative but unfussy plates that champion top-end ingredients, including those grown in the adjacent garden.
Time Out
An airy, modern space act as the canteen for the creatives working in this patch of Shoreditch - short but enticing menu and ace cooking.
The Nudge
We know that sometimes you just want a nose-to-tail inspired, subtly-secret restaurant from Melanie Arnold and Margot Henderson inside the repurposed bike shed of an old Victorian Era school’s grassy playground.
- 16 Playground Gardens
- E2 7FA
- London
- +44 20 3928 8328
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