The English Restaurant,
Spitalfields Market,
London

In a world seemingly in love with novelty and fads and gimicry, we aim to offer simple integrity, in never purchasing ready-made, in cooking always and only from fresh ingredients, and in rediscovering the noble and rich traditions of the English kitchen.

The English Restaurant is the product of over 10 years’ work by couple Kay and Peter Sinden; what was formerly The Market Coffee House has evolved into a high class, quintessentially British restaurant.

Diners can enjoy kippers with mustard butter for breakfast, High Tea of homemade scones and crumpets fresh from our in-house pastry chef, or choose a dinner from venison casserole to pan-fried Guinea fowl, steak & onion pudding to 21-day hung Black Angus steak.

English cooking is old-fashioned, because we like it that way. We do enjoy foreign dishes and admire Continental cooks, but when we cook the foreign dishes, the dishes, like the foreigners, become "naturalised English".

Dorothy Hartley, Food in England. Macdonald. London, 1954

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