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Our runner-upDover Sole Meunière
Dover sole cooked meunière, in brown butter with lemon and capers. Our main.
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Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstNative Oysters
Native oysters, Britain's own flat oyster, in their season. We'd start at the counter with these.
Bentley's Oyster Bar & Grill
Seafood · Mayfair
11-15 Swallow Street, London W1B 4DG
- Food + wine
Richard Corrigan's oyster bar on Swallow Street, opened by a Clacton oyster family before the First World War and still opening natives at the bar. Natives at the bar are the London ritual.
The proof, in the house's own words
Why the native oysters
Native oysters, opened at the bar where Bentley's has shucked them since 1916.
Craft
Its own trained shuckers get through up to a thousand a day.
“Shucked by the Oyster Boys, these specially trained oyster sommeliers prepare up to 1,000 oysters daily”
Tradition
An oyster family's bar: Bill Bentley's people sold oysters from a barrow in Clacton.
Local choice
No restaurant in London makes more of native oysters, the chef says.
“Celebrates native oysters more than any other restaurant in London, as it has done since I took over the restaurant”
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