Lady’s One Aldwych Hotel Dinner Review

Today I want to share my review of a One Aldwych hotel dinner in London. This hotel near Covent Garden is a great place to enjoy a meal in the UK capital.

One Aldwych Hotel Dinner

When I lived in San Francisco I had a progressive dinner party with a friend who lived in my building. The evening started in my apartment, where we all gathered for aperitifs and canapes.

Afterwards we moved to her apartment for dinner. It was a fun night, and I’ve always wanted to have a progressive dinner again.

Last week I had an opportunity to do so as part of the London Restaurant Festival. I was invited to a complimentary One Aldwych hotel dinner where each of three courses was served in a different restaurant.

I arrived with a friend at 7:45pm. I’d been to the One Aldwych spa before, but never to the hotel. I was excited to see it.

One Aldwych Hotel Bar

My friend and I kicked off our One Aldwych hotel dinner at a table in the lobby bar. The area was busy, and there was a nice ambiance in the room.

Our server came by with the first course on the Modern Market Menu, which the hotel was offering throughout the London Restaurant Festival.

The course consisted of a glass of sparkling wine and a smattering of oysters from Colchester Oyster Fisheries.

There were natural oysters with shallot vinegar and Tabasco sauce, jellied oysters with watercress, deep fried oysters with tartar sauce and fries, and angels on horseback. It was an inventive selection, and we enjoyed all of them.

One Aldwych Hotel Restaurant

After we finished our starters, we were taken downstairs to a restaurant for the next course of our One Aldwych hotel dinner. We’d been told our table would be ready upon arrival, but the dining room seemed full.

I’m not sure if the server didn’t want us to know, or if there was another explanation, but we were taken to a table at the bar and told our food was still cooking and would be ready in five minutes.

In the meantime, the server brought out a bottle of wine. It was dark ruby in color, floral on the nose, and had hints of spice.

It tasted good, but it was definitely a wine that needed to be paired with food. Every time our server returned to say “just five more minutes” I hoped it was true.

After around 15 minutes we were seated at our table and the main course of our One Aldwych hotel dinner arrived. The dish was a roast haunch of Denham Estate venison on caramelized root vegetable puree with chestnut jus.

It was absolutely divine, and was one of the best main dishes I’d eaten in a long time. The meat was fresh and tender, and the flavors of the venison, vegetables, and sauce blended perfectly. 

The side dish of shepherd’s pie was a heavy accompaniment, but it tasted good and I finished it all.

One Aldwych Hotel Dessert

After our mains were cleared our server took us upstairs to Indigo restaurant for the final course of our One Aldwych hotel dinner. We were shown to our table, which overlooked the lobby bar.

Dessert came shortly thereafter. It was a Pixley Farm blackberry, elderberry, and sloe gin jelly with clotted cream ice cream and blackberry mousse.

The fruit flavors were intense without being too sweet, and the ice cream provided a nice contrast. We enjoyed the course and the ambiance until it was time to depart.

One Aldwych Hotel Dinner

As we left our One Aldwych hotel dinner, we agreed it had been a great evening.

The progressive meal was an enjoyable change from the usual three-courses-in-one-place experience, and I looked forward to seeing what was in store for next year’s London Restaurant Festival.

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