Sketch
9 Conduit St
London
W1S 2XG
uk
51.512295
-0.141839
0870 777 4488
Sketch
Current
Avg. from 10 rates: 3.7
9 Conduit St
Mayfair
London, W1S 2XG
Nearest Transport: Oxford Circus
0870 777 4488
With a restaurant by the name of the Lecture Room and Library, and a brasserie style restaurant entitled the Gallery (which will transform into a video art gallery during the day time), Sketch brings a new experience to eating and drinking. They also have two bar areas and the Parlour patisserie.
Reviews for Sketch
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Sketch
9 Conduit St
London
W1S 2XG
uk
13th March 2008
Go to check out the loos
Not my cup of tea, I'm afraid. A triumph of coolness, design and trendyness over food and common sense.
I do recommend going though to look at the loos which are a surreal room full of pods. V amusing and quite other-worldly...well worth a visit.
I did go for a big group meal, so maybe I didn't get to taste the 'normal menu' but surely you always have to put your best foot forward?
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5
Sketch
9 Conduit St
London
W1S 2XG
uk
15th July 2007
what a stylish place is sketch!
If you don't have money just go for it for the interiors- have a bottle of beer for £5 but get the chance to stay in this place for a while. Go to the toilets many times and try a different toilet each time because there are 2-3 types of toilets and they are beautiful. I had a dinner there on one occasion- it was expensive but fantastic. The staff are dressed in a very cool way- when I was there they had smart shirts and black all star shoes- so cool- someone there is thinking on each detail. the menus at the bar were beautifully designed as news paper (probably changed by now). check the gallery if you are there during morning –noon.
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5
Sketch
9 Conduit St
London
W1S 2XG
uk
26th June 2007
Romance and surrealism
This restaurant was both the most surreal and the coolest restaurant I have ever been to. i went for valentines day which is also my birthday and it was the perfect venue. It was a while ago and i can't remember exactly what I ate but it was nice. i remembr thinking the food wasn't as good as the decor but that was so stunning i didn't care. The walls were projected with movig images and there were pink partitioning structures and cute little white chairs. i felt very very special just sitting there. The toilets are the best though. The cubicals are giant eggs and as you sit on the loo barn yard noises make you feel like a chicken about to hatch in some strange dream. After the meal i was presented with a little liberty's bag with a bar of liberty's soap. Very cute. It was also expensive. But I wasn't paying and my boyfried seemed very happy to.
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3
Sketch
9 Conduit St
London
W1S 2XG
uk
13th May 2007
Lunch in the parlour!
As the other reviews will tell you the decor of Sketch is something else, and it's definately worth poping in for coffee and one of the perfectly sculpted pastries (as they should be with the involvement of uber pastry chef Pierre Gagnaire), just to be greeted by the supermodelesque maitre 'd who has the backdrop of a staircase which looks as though it's had a ton of molten chocolate poured down it.
Anyway.....I was there for lunch on a monday, and as the rest of the place is closed that time of week, our only option was to eat in the Parlour. The menu was a choice of four starters, and four mains and dessert courtesy of the extensive array of afore mentioned pastries on display in the glass counter which welcomes you as you enter the room.
Our chosen starters were the marinaded vegetables and the fried duck egg with curry froth, and they did exactly what they said on the tin, no fuss or frills, but very well cooked with punchy, bold flavours. The main courses were equally well cooked, the butter roasted monkfish served beautifully opaque, and my duck with a rich caramelied skin yet moist pink flesh.
Then it was on to the pastry 'bar' for dessert, the only problem here was choosing from the 20 or so pant-wettingly good treats on offer.
The meal for two with a couple of glasses of plonk and bottle of water came to 65, which i would say was pretty good value, and not as hiddously overpriced as some reviews would have you think. My only gripe with Sketch was the two members of waiting staff who dealt with our table. They were abrupt rather than friendly, although that could just have been down to being very busy and having a full restaurant to look after.
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1
Sketch
9 Conduit St
London
W1S 2XG
uk
5th May 2007
Worst restaurant i have been to ever! The waiters wouldn't serve us properly as we were two young women instead of old posh toffs! We both got food poisoning due to the lobster and had to throw up in the toilets (which are very cool). The manager was practically laughing at us and thought we were con artists by his attitude. Eventually didn't pay the service charge but still paid a huge amount for an awful time. There are better places to go to in London for the same price.
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5
Sketch
9 Conduit St
London
W1S 2XG
uk
26th April 2007
Very stimulating environment, great people watching!
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3
Sketch
9 Conduit St
London
W1S 2XG
uk
17th April 2007
3 Stars for the Pod Toilets!
Looks fantastic, toilets are devine (except the teeny tiny mirror action - how are you meant to put your lippy on with that?) and the place is "other worldly" but I will have to disagree with the other posts and say the food is horrible! make that with a capital H.
We were a table of 6 and all had 3 course meals and not one person enjoyed it. Although it was very entertaining and we had a great laugh. Simple fact is they try way way too hard to be different. Different is good but different has to taste good too. I love new flavours but theirs simply did not work. The cold corn chowder was not a hit, it looked and smelt like (you can guess). My grilled halloumi cheese with champagne sorbet was probably the best of the bunch. The mains were pretty uneventful but certainly nothing great. Although the "soft" boiled potatoes in rice paper was a brilliant laughing hit, you would have to taste it to get the full idea.
Dessert was actually good but the portions so tiny that I thought they must have been trying to give me a hint that I needed to go on a diet. The chocolate mouse layered with air looked great - however since half the glass was filled with air it was not the satisfying yumyum I imagined.
So we had a good night and a good laugh but I will not returning or recommending Sketch to anyone (I like).
Way overpriced because the food did not live up the the atmosphere. My opinion - just drop in to use the loo and give the restaurant a miss!
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5
Sketch
9 Conduit St
London
W1S 2XG
uk
4th December 2006
A must-see in the heart of the city
Amazing place, it is well worth a visit at any time of the day. I totally agree with Socratis and Walid about the decoration, not to mention the futuristic toilets!
Generally there is an atmosphere of being in a movie or in a fairy tale -the waitresses are wearing something like traditional 18th century clothes!
Mixed crowd, comfortable chairs and sofas and delicious desserts (try the raspberry cake) complete the dream.
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4
Sketch
9 Conduit St
London
W1S 2XG
uk
4th October 2006
Not sketchy at all
Had a very good meeting nearby this morning and followed it up with a coffee and chat with Walid. The lemon cake and coffee were top class and the staff very friendly and helpful.
This is one impressive place. Aesthetically superb financially not so. Have not gone for dinner or a night out there, but judging from the breakfast prices don't be surprised if you go home and find a hole in your pocket.
The space combines a bar, gallery and dining room. The dining room downstairs can also be used as a party area. It is a very large square space, with very high walls that have young artists' animation or film projected on them. Really good atmosphere and feel to the place, it would be a great venue for a party (again don't ask about cost I did and nearly needed a defibrillator).
The cherry on the cake has to be the toilets though. They look like a set from a 70s Kubrick film and you get the luxury of having a individual pod all to yourself. Do check out the mock puppies at the centre (picture attached here) and the enclosed mini lounge below.
I'm quite intrigued by it now, so a night visit review will be coming up soon.
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4
Sketch
9 Conduit St
London
W1S 2XG
uk
4th October 2006
Funky Bar / Restaurant
Ok Sketch is one of those places you have to try out as it is quite unusual and surprising in a unique way. Sketch was founded by Mourad Mazouz, the same guy who created MoMo. Sketch is a mixture of a bar, exposition, restaurant all decorated in a very eclectic way. You have furniture on one side that makes you think you have just stepped into the stage of an Austin Power movie and at the same time you see on the other side a large chandelier and a large drawing/picture of David Beckham. You could probably spend an hour just observing the decoration/furniture they've added to this place. If you do go there you have to try there bathroom.... As you go up the stairs you are greeted by large eggs which at first thought makes you think they are sun beds inside of them, but actually that's where you find your own unique bathroom... in an egg! See picture I've added ;-)
In terms of the food there I haven't tasted it but the coffee they had was definitely one of the best I've had in London.
As for pricing, well lets just say it isn't on the cheap side. Well worth a visit both for the eclectic / interesting decoration they have but also just to have a look at their customers who come there who seem to be a mixture of rich businessmen and movers and shakers of London.
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