London’s Best Truffle Menus

You know it’s almost truffle season in London when the fresh, rich, and more-ish truffle reaches its peak aroma and taste. Over the next few weeks, expect an abundance of seasonal fresh Italian truffles popping up at London’s finest restaurants, with bespoke truffle dishes spoiling you for choice across many of the city’s best menus. Earthy, rich, and oh-so luxurious – here’s where to get your truffle fix this season.

CORD by Le Cordon Bleu

CORD is keeping things classic for truffle season with a new Truffle Pasta from Executive Chef Karl O’Dell. Fresh pasta comes with sautéed girolles, spinach, aged Parmesan and toasted pine nuts, before fresh truffle is shaved generously over the top tableside. It’s rich without throwing absolutely everything at the ingredient, with the mushrooms and Parmesan doing much of the heavy lifting alongside it.

Where: 85 Fleet St, London EC4Y 1AE
Website: www.cordrestaurant.co.uk

The Italian Greyhound

There are two reasons for truffle lovers to head to The Italian Greyhound this season. Start with beef carpaccio paired with truffle and honey moscatel, before moving onto the orecchiette with winter truffle, cacio e pepe. The latter is exactly the sort of pasta we want when the temperature drops: creamy, peppery and finished with plenty of that unmistakable earthy truffle richness.

Where: 62 Seymour St, London W1H 5BN
Website: www.theitaliangreyhound.co.uk

Smith’s Bar & Grill

Sometimes truffle is best left uncomplicated, and Smith’s Bar & Grill understands the assignment. Its Truffle Tagliatelle sees ribbons of fresh pasta tossed through butter and Parmesan before being finished with a generous shaving of truffle. Order it at the Paddington Central restaurant and accept that lunch by the canal has been sorted.

Where: Central, 25 Sheldon Square, London W2 6EY
Website: www.smithsbarandgrill.co.uk

House of Ming

For something beyond the inevitable truffle pasta, House of Ming at St. James’ Court is bringing the ingredient into its Sichuan and Cantonese cooking. There’s Mushroom & Truffle Dim Sum, alongside Roast Duck in Black Truffle Oil Sauce, using truffle’s earthy richness against the restaurant’s Chinese flavours.

Where: 54 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6AF
Website: www.stjamescourthotel.co.uk

Mistress of Mayfair

This stunning Parisian-inspired restaurant and members lounge is nestled below street level on the corner of St. James’s Street and Piccadilly. Discreet and exclusive, Mistress of Mayfair serves a decadent truffle rigatoni that’s a luxurious blend of earthy truffle, manchego and pasta.

where: 48 ST JAMES’S ST LONDON SW1A 1JT
website: www.mistressofmayfair.com

Meraki

Meraki has got truffle breakfasts covered. The signature rosti Greek style has been quite the hit at the Fitzrovia-based restaurant, where truffle shavings are scattered over the dish alongside crunchy potatoes, sunny-side-up eggs, truffle and cretan butter.

Where: 80-82 Great Titchfield St., London W1W 7QT
Website: www.meraki-restaurant.com

Circolo Popolare

We’d be impressed with this restaurant purely for its stunning interiors – think Sicilian trattoria with string lights, pretty foliage, and thousands of bottles lining the walls – but we’re even more impressed by its dishes, especially when there’s truffle involved.

For an indulgent meal, order their signature doppio tartufo pizza with truffle cream, mozzarella, sautéed mushrooms and fresh truffle. Or a fresh pasta called Le Nostre Mafaldine al Tartufo, made with Mafaldine with truffle sauce, mascarpone and fresh truffle.

Where: 40-41 Rathbone Pl, London W1T 1HX
Website: www.bigmammagroup.com

Sparrow Italia

It doesn’t get much more sumptuous than Sparrow Italia, a modern Italian restaurant in the heart of Mayfair. Spanning four floors and a rooftop terrace, the space is gorgeous, and the menu is unapologetically indulgent especially when it comes to truffle. Tuck into wagyu carpaccio with pickled seasonal mushrooms, pine nut umami aioli and shaved black truffles or the crispy arancini with wild mushroom risotto, Parmigiano and truffle aioli.

Where: 1-3 Avery Row, London W1K 4AJ
Website: www.sparrowitalia.com

Truffle Burger

The clue’s in the name… burger experts Truffle Burger celebrate all things truffle-infused, giving London some of the best truffle and parmesan fries around, and ladling truffle into their iconic burgers.

Think succulent meats topped with truffle mayonnaise, truffle and parmesan glaze, truffle burger sauce, truffle honey and truffle butter.

Where: Multiple Locations
Website: www.truffle-london.co.uk

The Little Violet Door

This flatshare turned bar and restaurant serves an incredible house party, with some great food on the menu too. One of the favourites here is the Top Bun burger – a gorgeous cheeseburger with minced chuck, smoked applewood and confit onions served with fries or a bibb salad.

where: 9 Kingly St, Carnaby, London W1B 5PH
website: www.thelittlevioletdoor.co.uk