A grand yet welcoming pub at the Langham hotel on Langham Place, set in a former bank hall beneath soaring green ceilings, with house punches, hoptails and famed toasties
The Wigmore holds sixteen hundred and seventy-four reviews and an excellent 4.6 – a genuinely superb score on a very large sample – and it is a genuine grand gem: a grand yet welcoming pub at the Langham hotel on Langham Place, set in a former bank hall beneath soaring green ceilings, with house punches, hoptails and famed toasties.
The Langham pub
The Wigmore has a genuinely grand and historic home. It is the pub of the Langham – the legendary grand hotel that opened in 1865 as Europe’s first “grand hotel,” a genuine landmark of luxury and history. There is genuine history here – the Langham hotel, the 1865 Europe’s-first-grand-hotel heritage, the grand landmark setting. Pubs genuinely do not get posher – and yet the Wigmore, alongside the hotel’s afternoon-tea-serving Palm Court and its award-winning Artesian cocktail bar, is the more casual, no-less-delectable pub, set gloriously in a former bank hall, beneath soaring green ceilings. There is real grandeur and character to it – the grand Langham setting, the former bank hall, the soaring green ceilings. It is exactly the kind of grand, historic, characterful hotel pub that London does so wonderfully – the grand setting, the bank-hall grandeur, the soaring ceilings. There is genuine grandeur and history to it – the Langham heritage, the former bank hall, the soaring green ceilings. The Prat’s history desk salutes it – the grand pub in a former bank hall at Europe’s first grand hotel.
The Michel Roux Jr food
The Wigmore’s food is a genuine draw – overseen by the culinary icon Michel Roux Jr, tapping into his classical background. There is real quality here – the Michel Roux Jr oversight, the classical culinary background, the refined and inventive food. It offers genuinely inventive, refined dishes – buttered crumpets with citrus-cured salmon, braised beef featherblade, a homemade mandarin-and-chocolate Jaffa cake – and it is famed above all for its rotating menu of toasties (the three-cheeses-and-mustard a genuine favourite). There is genuine quality and appeal to it – the Michel Roux Jr food, the inventive refined dishes, the famed rotating toasties. It is a genuine food destination – the Roux-overseen menu, the refined-yet-playful dishes, the celebrated toasties. There is real quality and appeal to it – the Michel Roux Jr food, the refined dishes, the famed toasties. The Prat’s food desk salutes it – the grand pub with a genuine culinary icon at the helm and a celebrated toastie menu. There is genuine quality and appeal to it – the Roux-overseen food, the refined dishes, the famed toasties.
The drinks and welcome
The Wigmore backs its grand setting and fine food with a genuine range of drinks and a warm welcome – fine wines, house punches, inventive “hoptails,” cask ales, craft beers (including its very own brew), all beneath the soaring green ceilings. There is real quality to this – the fine wines, the house punches, the hoptails, the cask ales, the craft beers, the warm welcome. It is a genuine all-rounder – the grand setting, the Roux food, the inventive drinks, the famed toasties, the warm welcome. There is genuine quality and warmth to it – the grand setting, the fine food and drink, the warm welcome. Combined with its grand-Langham home and its Michel Roux Jr food, it makes the Wigmore a genuine Marylebone gem. Its excellent 4.6 across a very large sample confirms it – a genuinely superb, much-loved pub. There is real grandeur, quality and warmth in the whole thing – the grand Langham setting, the former bank hall, the Roux food and famed toasties, the inventive drinks, the warm welcome. It is a genuine Marylebone gem – grand, historic, quality-led, and warmly welcoming.
Between its grand Langham home and former-bank-hall setting, its Michel Roux Jr food and famed toasties, and its inventive drinks and warm welcome, the Wigmore is a genuine grand gem of Marylebone. Its excellent score across a very large sample marks it as a genuinely superb and much-loved pub. The Prat’s desk enjoys a house punch and a celebrated toastie beneath the soaring green ceilings of the former bank hall, and raises an appreciative glass to the Wigmore.
The pub
An excellent, much-loved pub doing a superb 4.6 across a very large sample – the Wigmore, the grand pub of the Langham hotel, in a former bank hall, with Michel Roux Jr food and famed toasties.
Verdict
Excellent, much-loved, and a genuine grand gem – the Wigmore, the Langham’s grand pub in a former bank hall, with Roux-overseen food and celebrated toasties.
Enjoy a house punch and a celebrated toastie at the Wigmore on Langham Place – the grand pub of the Langham hotel, set in a former bank hall beneath soaring green ceilings.
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