L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon (London)

L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon
L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon, Covent Garden
Location in the London Borough of the City of Westminster
Restaurant information
Established	2006; 11 years ago (2006)
Chef	Joël Robuchon
Food type	French cuisine
Rating	Michelin star
Street address	West Street
City	London, WC2
Country	United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°30′47″N 0°7′42″W / 51.51306°N 0.12833°W / 51.51306; -0.12833Coordinates: 51°30′47″N 0°7′42″W / 51.51306°N 0.12833°W / 51.51306; -0.12833
Other information	Nearest station: Leicester Square

L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon is a Michelin-starred restaurant in West Street, Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, London. The restaurant spans three floors, with the counter on the ground floor, the tables and restaurant on the first floor, and the salon bar and terrace on the upper floor. The restaurant is run by French celebrity chef, Joël Robuchon, while the executive chef is Jeremy Page.

The restaurant is located near Covent Garden, close to fellow restaurant The Ivy. It was opened in 2006, with the L'Atelier ground floor promising no-reservations required outside of 5pm to 7pm, which at the time caused some consternation for food critics who wished to review it. As with the other L'Atelier restaurants, the seating is laid out around an open kitchen, with the entire floor of the building decorated in black and red. La Cuisine is on the second floor, which is a formal sit down restaurant, and there is a bar on the third floor. It is one of twelve L'Atelier de Joël Robuchons around the world. The executive chef of the restaurant is Jeremy Page, the Chef Patron is Joël Robuchon. Page, who previously worked in other Robuchon restaurants, took over from Xavier Boyes after his departure.

Joe Warwick in the book Eat London says of it, "the ground floor is a low-lit combination of black and red that makes it look like a giant bento box at battle with a 80s cocktail bar. Customers sit along a sleek shiny counter and eat small plates of some of possibly the most exquisiste seasonal French cooking currently in London." Donald Strachan of Frommer's says of the restaurant, "for the most dramatic effect, eat at Atelier's counter. Here you can watch the theatre of the chefs producing tapas-style dishes - small bombshells of taste as in beef and foie gras mini-burger; pig's trotter on parmesan toast; and the signature egg cocotte with wild mushroom cream, all wildly inventive and beautifully presented. The a la carte menu follows the conventional three course approach, using superb ingredients."Time Out in its London edition, described the interior of the restaurant as a "smart if slightly dated bento-box aesthetic of shiny reds and blacks", but praised the quality of the food overall, in particular the onglet with polenta.