BRASSERIE BLANC
Brasserie Blanc is the brainchild of world-renowned French chef Raymond Blanc, offering an extensive fresh and seasonal à la carte menu.
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BRASSERIE BLANC MENU
The Brasserie Blanc menu delivers tasty French classics using the very best seasonal ingredients, freshly prepared in the kitchens. In the words of Raymond Blanc, Brasserie Blanc “is not a place for refined haute cusine … (instead) Brasserie Blanc is a place for relaxed enjoyment”.
The restaurant offers an a la carte menu, offering aperitifs, nibbles, starters, mains, seafood, vegetarian and vegan, sides and desserts.
Reviews
WHAT DOES EVERYONE ELSE SAY?
“These are designed for the kind of people who find Jamie’s Italian a bit new-fangled and leery”
Marina O’Louglin – The Guardian
“Better quality than many rivals even if it is very much chain fare”
“A fresh lively botanical theme runs throughout”
Ross – The Luxury Editor
BRASSERIE BLANC FAQ’S
With fourteen locations across England, four of which in London, Brasserie Blanc is one of the nation’s most popular restaurants. Below are a selection of the commonly asked questions that diners such as yourself have asked regarding the dining experience at Raymond Blanc’s chain of brasseries.
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BRASSERIE BLANC LOCATIONS
There are four Brasserie Blanc restaurants in London, located on Chancery Lane, Fulham Reach, Southbank and Threadneedle Street.
Nationwide there are an extra ten Brasserie Blanc restaurants. These are located in Beaconsfield, Bournemouth, Cheltenham, Chichester, Hale Barns, Leeds, Milton Keynes, Oxford, Portsmouth, Winchester.
Whichever Brasserie Blanc restaurant you visit, you will find that is a thoroughly pleasant place to enjoy a straightforward yet robustly hearty French cuisine. The influences of Raymond Blanc are clear for all to see, with the Brasserie Blanc menu heavily influenced by the flavours of his childhood and executed using only the freshest of local seasonal produce. This philosophy is referred to as the ‘Chez Nous’ influence that runs through the heart of the brasserie.
LEEDS
Address: Victoria Mill, Sovereign Street,Leeds, LS1 4BJ
THREADNEEDLE STREET
Address: 60 Threadneedle Street, London, EC2R 8HP
SOUTHBANK
Address: 9 Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8YL
FULHAM REACH
Address: Goldhurst House, Parr’s Way, Fulham Reach, W6 9AN
CHANCERY LANE
Address: 119 Chancery Lane, WC2A 1PP
MILTON KEYNES
Address: 301 AVEBURY BOULEVARD, MILTON KEYNES, MK9 2GA
BEACONSFIELD
Address: 41 LONDON END, BEACONSFIELD, BUCKS, HP9 2HW
BOURNEMOUTH
Address: MARRIOTT HIGHCLIFF HOTEL, 105 ST MICHAEL'S ROAD BOURNEMOUTH DORSET BH2 5DU
CHELTENHAM
Address: THE PROMENADE CHELTENHAM, GL50 1NN
CHICHESTER
Address: RICHMOND HOUSE THE SQUARE CHICHESTER PO19 7SJ
MANCHESTER
Address: MANCHESTER AIRPORT MARRIOTT HOTEL, HALE ROAD, HALE BARNS, MANCHESTER WA15 8XW
OXFORD
Address: 71-72 WALTON STREET OXFORD OX2 6AG
PORTSMOUTH
Address: 1 GUNWHARF QUAYS PORTSMOUTH PO1 3FR
WINCHESTER
Address: 19/20 JEWRY STREET WINCHESTER SO23 8RZ
ABOUT THE CHEF
RAYMOND BLANC RESTAURANTS
Brasserie Blanc is just one part of Raymond Blanc’s ever-popular restaurant empire.
Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in Oxford is one of the most celebrated restaurants in the country, and is the culinary vision of Raymond Blanc. The Oxford restaurant is rightfully recognised with two Michelin stars, and is known as one of the “ultimate gastronomic destinations in the country”.
Blanc described his first restaurant, Les Quat’ Saisons, as having “opened in a corridor between a lingerie shop and Oxfam”. Blanc is entirely self-taught, but has gone on to inspire some of the most influential chefs such as Heston Blumenthal, Marco Pierre White and Paul Liebrandt.
THE STORY
HISTORY OF BRASSERIE BLANC
Blanc’s first Brasserie, Le Petit Blanc, opened in 1996 in Oxford. Le Petit Blanc brasserie was awarded a Michelin Star in its first year, as well as being recognised as one of the ten best restaurants in the UK at the time. Following the success of the Oxford Le Petit Blanc, a second venue opened up in Cheltenham in 1998. This was followed by a Birmingham Le Petit Blanc opening in 1999 (which later closed in 2008), Manchester in 2000 and Tunbridge Wells in 2004, although the latter was to close in 2009.
In 2006, Le Petit Blanc was rebranded as Brasserie Blanc. In the years since, multiple new locations have opened, including:
2007 – New sites in Leeds and Milton Keynes
2008 – Bristol and Winchester
2009 – Portsmouth
2010 – Chichester and Threadneedle Street
2012 – Bath, Berkhamsted, St Albans, Chancery Lane, Charlotte Street, Covent Garden (closed in 2016), St Paul’s and Tower Hill
2017 – Brasserie Blanc opened their first restaurant in a hotel. The Bournemouth Highcliff Marriott Hotel, overlooking Poole Bay, was chosen.