sketch Lecture Room and Library
9 Conduit Street, London, W1S 2XG
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toptable Dining Awards 2007 - Runner-up: Best Ambience & Best Loos categories
Located on the first floor, the Lecture Room & Library at sketch boasts an elegant high-ceilinged dining room and a Michelin star. French master chef Pierre Gagnaire has adapted his distinctive menu style to create a range of unique menus that include an affordable Gourmet Rapide set lunch, in addition to the full à la carte and tasting menus. Each dish combines top-quality ingredients to create exquisite tastes and sensations, with menu highlights including the legendary starter – Langoustine Five Ways; a main course of pan-fried fillet of Simmental beef; and the indulgent Grand Dessert – five miniature signature delicacies. An award-winning international wine list of 1,200 bins is carefully chosen to complement the food.
Please see our top tips for booking below.
| room information | seating | standing |
|---|---|---|
| The Lecture Room & Library at sketch | 1 - 40 | N/A |
| The Library | 12 - 22 | N/A |
Getting into London’s top restaurants can be tough. Here are some top tips for booking success :
Book in advance. The Lecture Room and Library only takes reservations exactly three calendar months prior to the requested booking date.
Look for alternative days. Friday and Saturday evenings are the most popular times to dine out. Try dining earlier in the week Mondays or Tuesdays are good bets.
Be flexible with times. The most popular booking times are in the mid-evening, so take a look at dining earlier in the evening or even late at night, around 10pm or after.
Please note that sketch Lecture Room & Library accepts bookings up to 3 months in advance. In the case of cancellations, the restaurant requires 24 hours notice. For dinner reservations, £60 per person will be charged for late cancellation or no-shows.
Sample menus
Sample drink prices
- Bottle of beer: £4.25
- Bottle house wine: £21.00
- Cocktail: £10.00
- Spirit & Mixer: £10.00
- Bottle water: £3.95
| Cuisine: | European |
| Times: | Tues - Fri 12pm - 2pm and 7pm - 11pm Sat 7pm - 11pm |
| Dress code: | Smart |
| Station: | Oxford Circus |
| Payment: | All major credit cards accepted |
| Capacity: | 50 |
| Av. price: | £100 and above |
- allergy friendly dishes
- vegetarian friendly
- wheat/gluten free
- low carb dishes
- business/discreet
- celeb chef / owner
- celeb spotting
- cocktails
- kid friendly
- live music/dance
- private dining room
- comprehensive wine list
| Only users who have booked & dined through toptable can write reviews. Why are some reviewers foodies and others nibblers? |
| SL - gourmet | Overall rating: 8 |
Food 7 | Service 8 | Ambience 9 | Value 7 | Toilets 9 | Recommended 10
Beautifully presented, mostly tasty (but too much!) food. Assumed we were early, that other guests arrive more fashionably late, but for our 8pm reservation, we had the whole of the lecture room to ourselves! The room is delightful (look out for the lamp which rises, lowers and flutters)! Having the room to ourselves was great, but not so the over-the-top service. Lovely as the waiters were, it became a bit unbearable. A table in the private members bar was offered after dinner too-lovely touch!
| Greedy Guts - foodie | Overall rating: 8 |
Food 8 | Service 7 | Ambience 8 | Value 6 | Toilets 8 | Recommended 8
Go for the langoustine starter and beef main at the lecture room. I'm still dreaming of the steak served over truffle breadcrumbs! We had drinks before dinner at the Palour and wanted to return after dinner but were told it was just for members. i think they should make an exception for diners.
| JB - gourmet | Overall rating: 9 |
Food 10 | Service 8 | Ambience 8 | Value 8 | Toilets 10 | Recommended 10
Sketch remains a great choice for a special, stylish lunch. The vegetarian taster menu is sublime and service is unhurried, if a little distracted on the day that we went.
| JH - gourmet | Overall rating: 9 |
Food 9 | Service 9 | Ambience 9 | Value 8 | Toilets 9 | Recommended 9
Fabulous! On the pricey side but its expected if you are going to book here. Tasting menu was great. A bit of a shame they dont do wine pairing tasting menu as well. The food was outstanding, so many different flavours and textures. A great experience.
| LLL - gourmet | Overall rating: 9 |
Food 9 | Service 10 | Ambience 8 | Value 8 | Toilets 8 | Recommended 10
The Lecture Room and Library at Sketch is certainly an enigma - the food and service were fantastic, as can be expected from this establishment. The staff were incredibly helpful, especially when we admired the chandelier in the main dining room and were given the artist's contact details and catalogue! The tasting menu was superb and very innovative in the use of ingredients and textures. The only thing I'd say is that the restaurant seems to lack identity in its decor. But oh well, it's great!
| DC - gourmet | Overall rating: 8 |
Food 8 | Service 7 | Ambience 9 | Value 5 | Toilets 9 | Recommended 8
Fantastic decor, great door service. The beef dishes were beautiful, the fish dishes were a little disappointing and so was the lamb. The desserts were wonderful.
| IV - foodie | Overall rating: 10 |
Food 10 | Service 10 | Ambience 10 | Value 8 | Toilets 10 | Recommended 10
Our first visit to sketch the library and lecture room. What an experience...after an eccentric (but entertaining) greeting we enjoyed impeccable service, elgantly constructed and sauced food, and a visit from Pierre Gagnaire, an altogether too rare pleasure at establishments like this. I think this is one of the finest dining experiences (not such an oxymoron) to be had in London at the moment. Even the eye-watering bill seemed not unreasonable for an evening like that. We'll be back!
| MR - foodie | Overall rating: 9 |
Food 9 | Service 10 | Ambience 10 | Value 7 | Toilets 10 | Recommended 10
In a word, Sketch is fantastic...everything you expect from a Michelin star restaurant and then some...superb service, fantastic food and ambience I've not seen in London.
| anon - nibbler | Overall rating: 6 |
Food 2 | Service 9 | Ambience 8 | Value 3 | Toilets 10 | Recommended 3
The service and ambience at Sketch was very good, however my girlfriend who had the taster menu and I ,who had the vegetarian taster menu thought the food was very poor and left the restaurant extremely disappointed. I would reccomend 5 London restaurants over Sketch.
| Detelin Ivanov - grazer | Overall rating: 9 |
Food 9 | Service 9 | Ambience 9 | Value 9 | Toilets 10 | Recommended 9
Sketch is great place and having guy like David Boyd looking after the guests is a treat!Food is excelent and the focachia bread rolls better than any other place in London!
