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The Clove Club
• Modern British• Shoreditch
About the restaurant
After working at the Ledbury, among other top-echelon restaurants, The Clove Club’s Orkney born chef-patron, Isaac McHale formed a trio with Ben Greeno and James Lowe (now co-founder of Lyle’s) named The Young Turks. The trio operated experimental supper clubs in and around London. McHale opened The Clove Club in 2016, and it has retained a Michelin star and been a fixture in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list in the years since.
The Clove Club makes use of one of the most enviable settings in East London. The grand and historic Shoreditch Town Hall makes a beautiful home for the restaurant, which has trappings of fine dining in its service style and food but whose dining room is sparse and minimal enough to feel down-to-earth.
Food here is somewhere between modern British and New Nordic, with standouts like the Orkney scallop with Périgord truffle jostle, alongside new-school dishes that use clean flavours and artful presentation. The full tasting menu is £145, and with the wine pairing for the same price, it’s not cheap, although a short lunch menu served Monday-Thursday and priced at £65 is good value.
Reviews from the Web
Critic reviews
The Guardian
There's a no-choice menu. You either like it or lump it. There are few cheffy indulgences, hardly any blowsy carbs. But it's some of the loveliest food I've eaten in ages
Standard
It just seemed that this menu had been devised to show off the chef’s innovation, rather than to please the eater
The Independent
The Clove Club, inside the repurposed Shoreditch Town Hall, is spartan – dark wood and pale walls, high ceilings and an open kitchen of severe beauty, with tiles in my very favourite colour: cerulean.
The Telegraph
The fact is, it was perfectly nice, but in this kind of conception your food has to be really swell, unusually, explosively good, to justify the ambition and pretension
- Shoreditch Town Hall, 380 Old St
- EC1V 9LT
- London
- +44 20 7729 6496
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