The Connaught restaurant guide: Hélène Darroze, Jean-Georges and The Connaught Grill, with prices and hours

Hélène Darroze at The Connaught holds 3 Michelin stars. Its chef was born into a family of restaurateurs in the south-west of France, and her menu names each ingredient with the person or the place it comes from. The Taste of Autumn, read on 11 October 2026, opens with a tomato grown by Hubert Lacoste in the Gers, then a Brixham sardine with kohlrabi and smoked egg yolk, lobster from the Isle of Mull with tandoori spices, Newlyn red mullet with razor clams and a Brittany pigeon with beetroot, blackberry and mole poblano, before a Yorkshire strawberry with buffalo mozzarella and a Venezuelan chocolate with hōjicha. The 7 courses cost £255, and the same sheet offers a 5-course menu at £230, without the red mullet and the strawberry. Caviar in place of the tomato adds £75, A5 wagyu from Gunma in place of the pigeon £95, and a cheese course £35.

Lunch is the other door. From Tuesday to Saturday, bank holidays and the month of December apart, an à la carte is served at midday only: starters from £28, Newlyn turbot at £52, the pigeon at £64, a beetroot Wellington with Stichelton at £42, a Landes chicken with morels and vin jaune for 2 at £120, and the signature baba, with Darroze Armagnac, at £36. The house rules are short. There is no dress code; guests are welcome from the age of 7, and younger children in the private dining rooms; a table can be booked 90 days ahead and is guaranteed with a card.

Jean-Georges at The Connaught is the London restaurant of Jean-Georges Vongerichten, who runs 60 restaurants round the world, and it is the hotel’s room for every hour: British favourites beside dishes from South-East Asia, from noon to midnight. On the September 2026 dinner menu cod and chips at £38 shares a page with a red curried duck and pineapple sambal at £40, a truffle cheeseburger with Somerset Brie at £45, a black truffle pizza at £42 and blue lobster on e-fu noodles from £52. The Black Plate, 6 small things from raw tuna in rice paper to a spiced chicken samosa, is £45 a person for 2 or more. The same dishes can be ordered by telephone and collected from the hotel reception between noon and 8.30pm.

The Connaught Grill has the longest memory, and its menu prints it: opened on 2 May 1955, led from 1975 by Michel Bourdin, who is said to have been told to change nothing, closed in 2000 and now returned, with interiors by John Heah and wall panels, tables and chairs made by Mira Nakashima. The kitchen is open and the grill burns wood. A Hereford beef fillet of 200 grams is £76, lamb cutlets £56, half a spit-roasted Norfolk chicken £48 and a Dover sole £84; to share there are a sea bass en croûte with Champagne sauce at £110, a T-bone of 1 kilo at £168 and a tomahawk at £200. Game season adds a Yorkshire grouse with wild blueberries at £65, and crêpes Suzette are flamed at the table.

2 smaller counters feed anyone who wants less than a meal. Nicolas Rouzaud’s pâtisserie sells the Connaughty Hound, a chocolate and hazelnut cake in the shape of the dog on the hotel’s emblem, and a Trio au Chocolat striped in dark, white and gianduja chocolate. The Red Room, a wine bar reached through a velvet curtain from the Champagne Room, serves charcuterie, veal carpaccio and kale tempura with wines by the glass, and takes no reservations.

The hotel’s Google reviews say little about single dishes. A guest in May 2026 writes that every restaurant has great food, and one in January 2026 calls the food fantastic «at all of the restaurants». 3 reviews posted on the same day in August 2025 tell of one lunch on the terrace at Jean-Georges: a walk-in table, a limit of one hour and a minimum spend first given as £60 a person which, they write, the manager then put at £65.

At The Dorchester, Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester holds 3 Michelin stars and The Grill serves lunch from Monday to Saturday, dinner every evening and a Sunday lunch from noon to 3pm. The Ritz Restaurant has 2 Michelin stars under executive chef John Williams, seats lunch from 12.30pm and dinner from 6.30pm every day, and requires men to wear a jacket and tie; on Friday and Saturday evenings there is live entertainment, and guests who order from the carte or the tasting menus pay an entertainment charge of £58 a person.

Claridge’s, the Connaught’s sister hotel, serves lunch, afternoon tea and dinner in The Foyer & Reading Room, beneath a Chihuly sculpture and beside a grand piano.