The Natural Kitchen

Uktest202

Great food. Love this place 10th March 2009

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Very convenient to my flat. really like all the food

Kuching

Stunning fishcake! 15th February 2009

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Went with my BF for lunch on Saturday. A bit like Providores down the road there was a queue but it moved very quickly and we were sat down within five minutes. Staff hand out menus to those waiting for seats which is helpful and speeds things up once you reach your table.

Once seated service was very quick. Although there was a range of appealing specials (Thai chicken curry, prawns with noodles and beef lasagne all merited consideration) my BF and i both went for broccoli and stilton soup followed by the fishcakes with salad. The soup was excellent with some lovely bread on the side but we were both blown away by the fishcakes; OMG! I never knew fishcakes could be quite so good. They were extremely fresh, worried would not be able to finish as portion looked very large but in fact they were very light and we left two clean plates. Served on a lovely bed of green salad with delcious tartar sauce.

Overall an excellent meal at a reasonable price; wine list looked very good value too but it was a bit early in the day for me....

Oskar

A London Gem! 27th January 2009

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I must admit I was hugely surprised by the comments by the previous reviewer. Must have been a one off.
I always have excellent food on my visits there and the staff are very friendly, chatty & knowledgeable.
Can strongly recommend it.

mrsevans101

Tasty brekkie 12th December 2007

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I came here wih my husband on a weekday morning when we were looking for a proper breakfast (harder than you'd think in Marylebone, chains aside).
We wandered into the store to browse the deli and saw a sign for the cafe on the first floor so trolled upstairs to have a look. A nice bright space with lots of windows and neat but rustic wooden tables with Daisy, a large carbon fibre cow outside on the roof.
We checked that they were offering their cooked breakfast (because it says "weekends or by request" on the menu) and they were - hooray! tehy also do egg and bacon sandwiches, but we needed more sustenance than this...
So, we both had a full English - two rashers of organic Berkshire back bacon, a meaty, herby sausage, a poached or scrambled egg, mushrooms and some cherry tomatoes, served with two half-plate sized slices of toasted fresh bread.

We were really impressed - bacon that tasted of bacon, tasty, dense sausage and a perfectly poached egg. And the toast! Oh the toast! I had brown sourdough bread that was tasy, chewy and had plenty of butter (on request). Hubby had milk and honey bread that he declared as "delicious". All for £8. We'll come back for more when we're popping to Conran and Skandium...

Hugo

Tasteful New Organic Mega-Mart 6th June 2007

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ProfessorMagellan's review is detailed and spot on, so I will try not to be repetitive.

This is a fun spot and feels like a hidden treasure. I was a little disappointed by the selection of food in the cafe and was not wowed by it. The chocolate cake was rather good though...so I might be most tempted to return for a coffee and snack, rather than expecting a tasty lunch. Did I mention that there is a view of a cow out of the window...

However, I was most impressed by the fun shop which has mini-shops by Paxton & Whitfield (the heroic Jermyn street cheesemongers) and Well Hung (the posh butchers) amongst other top offerings.

The manager also explained that they have local events around different types of organic food, cooking and the suppliers of their lovingly procured food.

Definitely worth a visit. Innovative, very Marylebone High Street and fun.

(Apparently the store is going to be opened this summer by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall of River Cottage at some date to be confirmed. This should create a bit of buzz...even though it was already pretty busy, even though it only opened a week or so ago on May 25th)

ProfMagellan

new addition to St Marylebone cafe society 6th June 2007

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Another huge food emporium a la Villandry with outlets on the ground floor (butcher, baker, candlestickmaker on the ground floor)and cafe up a flight of stairs. Marylebone High Street is now the cafe capital of London: Paul's (ghastly for sit-down lunch), the excellent Valerie, Divertimenti, Eat and 2 Veg, Orrery Cafe, Pain Quotidien - all within a few hundred yards.
This cafe is bright and breezy with a nice roof-top aspect. At 12.30 I was easily able to secure seats for myself, a senior London colleague and Hiram B. Burner who runs Magellan Labs USA and is over in London this week. The tables are long, canteen style and chairs cheap and cheerful: so not the place for a confidential session or romantic get-away.
By 1.00pm, the Cafe was really hopping. Lots of Guardian-reading intellectuals with spectacles to die for.
Mainly sandwiches and not a very big selection my British colleague noted grumpily.
I had ham and mustard on some sort of grain bread. Cappuccino was stellar, strong and piping hot. Quality overall good. Service friendly and willing, though somewhat lacking in basic language skills (not sure what the Chinese is for "sparkling mineral water").
Not cheap at £15 a head - but this is Madonna- land after all. Hiram was not too taken with all the organic choices, being a meat and two veg sort of person. His failure to secure a coca-cola nearly caused a walk-out and a breakdown in Anglo-American relations. Apparently, we were assured, supplies of organic coca-cola are on their way. The piece de resistance was the chocolate cake which the three of us shared.
The Natural Kitchen deserves to succeed; and I will be back.