St. John Bread and Wine

So much fun! Awesome menu, really cool dining room, terrifically fun service team. A fantastic experience for reconnecting with our friends. Thank you!

Excellent in all aspects!!! We have been on numerous occasions and never been disappointed.

Complimentary bread is of rather low quality. the table wines are too warm, and not served optimally. Service is very attentive however, but this surprises me, that they do not know of the problems surrounding the wine. Olives I had served where very bland. The main came in good time, and was very nice. Very loud acoustics - could not imagine how it would be fully seated. More hyped instagram bistro than fine dining.

The blood cake was excellent but the fennel with cheese was bland, boring, not a good dish.
All in all too expensive for the size and quality of the plates.

Lina and I, our second visit to the restaurant. We’re on holiday from 🇨🇦. But with our whole family. What a great meal. Watching fish eaters trying everything served. My son doesn’t eat greens but tried all.

This is truly one of my favorite places to eat on the planet. The service was spot on. Just simply a great place to be.

One of the worst meals I’ve had in London for a very long time. Menu left a lot of question marks and the food was poorly cooked and presented. Left extremely disappointment.

Great and interesting menu! Food is nice and service is good

Always a memorable experience and meal, great for adventurous eaters

Saint John Bread and Wine is a pleasure, with wonderful welcoming staff, and delicious food with much care and planning evident in its planning and preparation. From booking to paying the bill there is no lack of attention to detail. The restaurant is well laid out. I like the menus and menu boards. The wine selection is commendable. Each day, breakfast, lunch, and supper options are different. I have eaten here several times during my stay in the Spitalfields and each morsel I have eaten has been perfect. When I have dined with colleagues they have been very impressed. Saint John Bread and Wine is built on the floor plan of the house where the great herbalist, physician, and astrologer Nicolas Culpeper lived with his wife Alice. I think they would be proud of the design of food for the good of the body and soul and at a good price give here.

Pretentious without actually being any good.

It offered so much promise and even recommended by a friend. Just failed to deliver on nearly all counts. The menu changes daily so maybe it was an off day

Great food and service!

It almost feels pointless to write a good review about this place. The fact is, if you know this restaurant and what it stands for, as well as it’s historical significance, what some American in the wine trade says is basically immaterial. If you have never been, just go. If you have been there, go again.

No one helped to celebrate my friend’s birthday

Both my husband and I were very unwell after. Food was less than average, but if you like “earthy” style then you may like it.

It’s one of a kind in London ! Worth a visit and an appropriate lunch or dinner. It’s here since long time but it didn’t lost any Inch of its original DNA!

Basically had a pork scratching salad - crispy pigs cheek heaven, enough said.

Lovely relaxed lunch. Food I love plus delightful staff

Everything was perfect as usual. My all-time favourite.

I was very excited to try this place, mainly because I wanted the bone marrow and also because it came highly recommended. Unfortunately, they ran out of bone marrow before we got there at 8 pm. The food was okay (6/10), but given the cost and expectations, I expected a lot more.

They have an innovative menu, with lots of fascinating specials every day. Arrive early if you want to make sure the specials are still available. Also, they have this Wednesday wine deal that is super cheap and amazingly good.

Based on the owner's reputation and friends' recommendation, I had high hopes for the last meal of my London trip. Chalk part of my disappointment up to coming on a Monday, and perhaps another part to having the same expectations of the bistro as of the flagship restaurant. Ambiance was friendly and convivial, and our server was trained in the instruction manual school of explaining "how things work here," something I hoped I'd ditched in coming from the US to the old country. The food was lackluster, the mackerel and quail done well but the vegetables poor in quality and presented without care. A very simple salad of tomatoes, lovage and aoili contained no lovage, and the tomatoes were frankly without excuse at the end of July. The bread was delicious, though, and a salad of tiny shrimp and cabbage was delightful. Overall bummer.

Always great service and an interesting menu at St. John. Perfect place to go with friends who have an adventurous palette. Best of Britain.

Delicious simple food, varied menu - good non-meat options!

When you create a persona based on simple food it should be good and of the utmost quality, St. John was neither. A shame really. London has evolved while St. John has regresssed.

The food was top notch but two dishes - although lovely - were WAY too small for what price they were! One was a small serving of cauliflower cheese and side salad. It was not a main course size, it was a small bowl. £15!! Second was an ice cream sundae, which again was nice and the £13 price suggested it was enough for two. It wasn’t! It was the same size glass they use in Hawksmoor and many restaurants, the £8 sundae in Hoi Polloi is far larger than this one! So whilst I love St John I did feel they took leave of their senses when pricing the menu when I ate there.

Food was good, service was lacking. Waiter didn't pay attention, brought the worn drink and was inattentive.

A lot below what I expected. I really don’t understand how this place got his glory. Price to high( we paid for 42 adults and 2 children over 120£, and webt out tobeat something right after), taste mediom and even less.
Very very slow service .
One of the dishes was so salty we couldn’t have eaten it. The waiter said :”it’s cockes in his own juices “.... so what??? The client (all of us) couldn’t ear it. In this kind of restaurant shouldn’t you be able to eat a 20£ dish???
I decided not to argue then, but all of you be aware.
By the way - the restaurant was nearly empty.

Don’t go in summer! The room is too hot and detracts from the great food.

Everything Great as always.
But they need proper AIR conditioning!!!! That makes the experience a bit uncomfortable.

The chef and the staff were very thoughtful and friendly, they helped us to choose the best dishes, making the whole experience an amazing dinner we are going to remember for a long time. The next time we visit London, we are definitely going to dine in St John Bread and Wine again.

An excellent experience as always - even though we missed friendly Ervin who was on leave. Shared an excellent starter of Braised Venison with horseradish sauce, a Grilled Mackerel with salad plus Jersey Royal potatoes and a superb bottle of Bordeaux specially bottled for St John.

Execution of the food is excellent. Flaws in service. This is supposed to be a sharing restaurant, but many of the dishes don't lend themselves to this (mussels, skate). Waiter was absent and difficult to hail to get simple things like another bottle of water. Room was very warm. Food is generally more esoteric (pigeon, kidneys on toast, etc). If this is your thing and your good to fend for yourself, this is your spot.

Very similar to the choices offered by the main St. John restaurant. Food is good. But much is the novelty of the preparations. It might lose appeal after 2 or 3 times there.

Felt ignored at times by the servers. My main course of pork was mostly jelly with a sliver of edible meat. Starter was very tasty but extremely overpriced for what is supposed to be offal cuts.

Staff lovely, food nice, but it was the loudest place I have ever eaten. Unfortunately we thought it was your other location where there isn’t such an acoustics issue. Hopefully a few discreet noise absorption elements added onto the ceiling or walls would remedy.

Very good fish dishes and very good bread. Much better than the meat choices. What definitely would have to change is wine serving - less in a glass (yes, it does matter) and the temperature of it. too warm and unfortunately the waitress wasn't willing to do something about it.
The atmosphere is friendly and agreeable, but much much too loud. If you're looking for a quite place to have a low tone conversation, it's not this one.

Outstanding on all counts: food, wine, service, friendliness, price. Very highly recommended.

Absolutely fantastic dinner at St. John Bread and Wine! I was initially disappointed not to see bone marrow and parsley on the menu here, but these concerns were soon swept aside.

The first dish to arrive was cold roast kid on a bed of watercress salad with a delightful and moreish green sauce - it tasted like early summer. This was followed by seasonal and soft yet charred onions with goat's curd on grilled bread. Another excellent dish. For mains, we ordered the oxtail and pea soup (flavourful but a tad salty for our palates) and crispy pig cheek which had sensational crackling. Unifying the meal was a glass of the house red, dangerously drinkable. Will definitely be back again.

Oh, and we got some madeleines to take away - a great way to finish the evening!

I went to St. John wit great expectations that were confirmed by the food quality and taste (roast bone marrow served with bruschetta was really fantastic). Nice location and really excellent staff made my night pleasant.

We were visiting from the US and we’re excited to try St John.
The experience was fine, but it wasn’t quite as spectacular as expected. We got a late reservation so a lot of the menu items we wanted were gone. Service was fine but not attentive. The food was good and well cooked, but from what we had read about the restaurant it didn’t meet our high expectations.