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sketch Lecture Room and Library

9 Conduit Street, London, W1S 2XG

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Opening times:

  • Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat: 12:00pm - 2:00pm, 7:00pm - 11:00pm
  • Sun: 7:00pm - 11:00pm

Diner ratings

  • food: 8.4
  • value: 7.4
  • service: 8.8
  • based on 119 ratings
  • toilets: 8.8
  • ambience: 8.6
  • recommend: 8.5
  • overall rating: 8.4 

Party & group booking

Top tips for booking the Lecture Room and Library - Getting into London’s top restaurants can be tough. Here are some top tips for booking success: Book in advance. The Lecture Room and Library only takes reservations exactly three calendar months prior to the requested booking date. Look for alternative days. Friday and Saturday evenings are the most popular times to dine out. Try dining earlier in the week Mondays or Tuesdays are good bets. Be flexible with times. The most popular booking times are in the mid-evening, so take a look at dining earlier in the evening or even late at night, around 10pm or after. Please note that sketch Lecture Room and Library accepts bookings up to 3 months in advance. In the case of cancellations, the restaurant requires 24-hours notice.

room information seating standing
The Lecture Room & Library at sketch 1 - 40 -
The Library 12 - 22 -

About sketch Lecture Room and Library

Located on the first floor, the Lecture Room and Library at sketch boasts an elegant high-ceilinged dining room and a Michelin star. French master chef Pierre Gagnaire has adapted his distinctive menu style to create a range of unique menus that include an affordable Gourmet Rapide set lunch, in addition to the full à la carte and tasting menus. Each dish combines top-quality ingredients to create exquisite tastes and sensations, with menu highlights including the legendary starter – langoustine five ways; a main course of pan-fried fillet of Simmental beef; and the indulgent grand dessert – five miniature signature delicacies. An award-winning international wine list of 1,200 bins is carefully chosen to complement the food. Please see our top tips for booking below.

Sample menu

Signature dish

Scottish red mullet.

Sample dishes

  • Seaweed (gillardeau oysters, green mango, leek, caviar, tofu, dried bonito, warm kombu bouillon, shellfish, cauliflower somite, crab with nori seaweed and potato mousse, fresh seaweed and fennel kohlrabi marinated in sake, scallops in grapefruit juice and coriander), £30
  • Challans duck (duck fillet with cinnamon and cumin, sautéed crosnes, salsify and grapes with sauternes, sologne stuffing on toast, kimchi and lamb’s lettuce, pear sorbet with Beaujolais jelly), £35
  • Chocolate puddle (bitter chocolate ganache with ginger, crunchy samana chocolate leaf, cocoa spun sugar), £14

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Snapshot

cuisine: French
price: Over £45 | €51 | US$70
opening times:
Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat: 12:00pm - 2:00pm, 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Sun: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
dress code: Smart

Essential information

A credit card is required to secure a reservation, if there is availability - this is simply to secure your booking, absolutely no money will be charged to the card except in the case of late cancellations. Late cancellations (within 24-hours of the reservation) will incur a charge of £25 per person for lunch reservations, and £60 per person dinner reservations. No shows will incur a charge of £60 for lunch and £100 for dinner reservations. There is a 2-hour turnaround on all tables.

Checklist

  • allergy friendly dishes
  • business/discreet
  • celeb chef / owner
  • celeb spotting
  • cocktails
  • comprehensive wine list
  • kid friendly
  • live music/dance
  • low carb dishes
  • michelin starred
  • private dining room
  • vegetarian friendly
  • wheat/gluten free

Diner reviews for sketch Lecture Room and Library

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2 Aug 2010

Reviewer :  Iain Munro  -  foodie

Quite simply the best meal I've ever had in London (apologies for the superlatives, but really, it was THAT good). The food was brilliantly presented, thorougly tasty and cleverly put together. Service very attentive without being irritating and knowledgable without being snobby or arrogant. A surprise dessert at the end of the meal for our anniversary was the icing on the cake (no pun intended). If you need somewhere to celebrate a big occasion, go to Sketch. It is outstanding.

  • overall: 9.2
  • food: 10
  • value: 7
  • service: 10
  • toilets: 10
  • ambience: 9
  • recommend: 9

29 Jul 2010

Reviewer: (Anonymous)

Over the top, over complicated, over priced. I can't exactly fault anything exactly but nothing felt right. The service was atttentive and my special dietary needs were catered for well, but it's not an experience I would like to repeat and I wouldn't recommend it to others either. Most surprising - having never met a dessert I didn't like - was the fact I could not finish my chocolate treat (it was AWFUL!).

  • overall: 4.5
  • food: 5
  • value: 2
  • service: 7
  • toilets: 7
  • ambience: 5
  • recommend: 1

29 Jul 2010

Reviewer: (Anonymous)

The rooms are stunning and the food was beautiful. The service was also perfect, attentive but not overbearing.

  • overall: 9.2
  • food: 10
  • value: 8
  • service: 10
  • toilets: 9
  • ambience: 9
  • recommend: 9

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