Le Cafe, Barbican, London

The food in this place is amazing I could eat so much in here and never get enough. I went to Le Cafe Du Marche and the experience was amazing, the service was excellent and the location is perfect

finally made it to this place with the family. it was great. ate my belly full of great food. i would most defiantly go back to this place. good friendly and polite service……it was worth the visit

This place is perfection and I would recommend it to all!

What a fantastic diner! I’d been worried that on the Saturday night it might be packed and therefore uncomfortable, yet it wasn’t when I visited, and so I had the joy of being in a position to look into it myself and chat perfectly with my guests.
The wine list was intriquing, notable and the bar staff really informed and helpful. I can’t wait to get back there and check out more food or carry out a wine tasting.

good french cuisine :)
good service

The service is impeccable, never experienced service like is before. The food 10 out of 10. It is $$$$ but worth it In my book for the experience.

Very clean and nice venue with great food.

Great place to visit. I had a lovely time with my friends. The waiters were very friendly. ;-)

nice

I wanted to take my girlfriend to a very nice French cuisine restaurant. That's why I decided to go to le cafe du marche. We had a very nice experience over there. These guys know what they are talking about. We ate a cote de boeuf sauce bearnaise and drank a delicious La chapelle de Calon, Saint Estephe.
A wonderful dinner

It looks nice! This will be my choise for tomorrow -Friday.... I am sure I will love it according to the comments.

La bonne bouffe!

Great restaurant!

very good food. Enjoyed our visit here immensely and thank you for looking after our family so well. We live nearby and shall return soon.

There are few things I love more than wine and cheese, so when I heard that Qype was organising a tasting event at Le Café du Marche, in combination with the Cheese Celllar and Great Western Wines, I was quick to sign up. I’m pleased to say it was everything it promised, with a fantastic setting, an extensive range of truly excellent wines and some the tastiest cheeses I have ever encountered. A special mention should of course go to cheese-master Tom from the Cheese Cellar, who made the evening particularly enjoyable.

The wine and the cheese ensured the evening very good indeed, but what made it great was the absorbing and intimate atmosphere of Le Café du Marche. Hidden away on a cobbled side-street with wood-beam ceilings and a rustic chalet feel, I could quite easily have been 500 miles away in the French countryside.

For excellent food and fine wine in a unique and romantic setting, I heartily endorse Le Café du Marche.

Located down a narrow alley off Charterhouse Square, this restaurant is very central yet intriguingly tucked away. However, while narrow alleys may be a typically London feature, Le Cafe du Marche is a little piece of France. Rustic without being twee, it made the perfect location for the Qype cheese and wine tasting.

The fabulous cheeses and fact-packed yet entertaining commentary came from Thomas Badcock of the Cheese Cellar; Joel Lauga of Great Western Wine paired a range of interesting wines with them and gave us real insight on how to match cheese to wine. Not only did I eat and drink a lot, I also learned a lot, as well as having great fun.

What also shone through, though, is that this restaurant is well worth a return visit. Service was exemplary, and we had enough of their food to gain an impression of its quality. Alongside charcuterie (I loved the excellent home-made pork rillettes) were delicous salads including beetroot spiked with horseradish and the best remoulade I've had. Afterwards came a memorably good rhubarb sorbet. A treat for the eyes in rose-pink, it was even better to taste: that perfect blend of sweet-and-sour that only the best rhubarb dishes achieve.

After an evening like this, one thing is certain: I'll be back soon!

I came here once before. The experience left me tearily grateful to be alive.

My return visit was for a wine and cheese tasting in the beautiful upstairs function room, which was put on by the good people of Qype (many thanks to this man - http://www.qype.co.uk/people/tikichris). Before this, I was unaware that I could get drunk on cheese.

I'm fairly sure it was the cheese that did it.

I could go into geekish detail about how everything at Cafe Du Marche is as close to perfect as is possible without offending a deity somewhere, but looking at the other reviews, I think I'll just say that Qype does not lie and leave it at that.

Apart from the array of matched wines and contextually enhanced cheeses, my highlight of the evening had to be the explanations and back stories that accompanied each round of dairy based excellence. These were delivered by Grand-CheeseMaster- Mr Tom Badcock (BADCOCK!!!). I've never heard such impassioned cheese-talk in all my days as a wandering opportunivore and my dad is a vegetarian Italian.

There are many reasons to visit Cafe Du Marche and all of them are -
BECAUSE IT'S AWESOME. Okay?

And the rhubarb sorbet.

If there's one thing better than cheese it's cheese followed by a nice glass of red wine, so from this I knew that the cheese and wine pairing that I was invited to via Qype was going to be my kind of event. Located next to the Malmaison, Le Cafe du Marche is set down a cobbled street and this paired with the wooden beams and rustic decor makes it seem a world away from London.

The staff were incredibly helpful and at the door I was greeted by one staff member with a glass of champagne, while another dealt with my coat.

The evening was superb and whilst the cheeses were fantastic, it was Tom, from the Cheese Cellar's enthausiasm for his product that really made the evening memorable. We tried a wide variety of different cheeses from ancient sheep's cheese which hasn't changed its recipe in thousands of years to the fantastic Lancashire bombers - a cheese that is literally made in a nylon stocking, but comes with a kick.

The wines were also fantastic and we got to try a formidable selection from all over the world. My favourite was the Pinot Noir - but it was fascinating how drinking a particular wine at the same time as eating a certain cheese could change the whole taste of the cheese. I had a fantastic time and will definitely be back to try some of the full meals in the restaurant.

The wine and cheese pairing event at Le Cafe du Marche was out-of-this world good! The service was incredible, atmosphere:gorgeous, food:cheesy deliciousness, wine:mmmmm, company:lovely!

I think all the reviews below say it all, but I definitely want to come back as the tastings were got were fantastic and being in there was like being a little chalet with servers happy to be there for you.

You know you've had a good night when you wake with the cheese sweats at 3.45am the next morning. Luckily it was totally worth it.

Last week I attended the very special tasting event with Qype hosted by Le Café du Marche restaurant in partnership with Cheese Cellar and Great Western Wine.
This fantastic, romantic French restaurant is tucked away in the alleys off Charterhouse Square and offers a different place in time - a traditional brasserie-style dining with rustic ambiance. The night started well - champers on arrival in the private room upstairs and then 20 dedicated qypers sat down to be educated.
The inimitable Tom from Cheese Cellar started us off on which cheeses not to love, before passing around amazing platters of cheeses starting from ancient sheep's cheese to the lactic Cirencester, old and rich gouda, acidic and moist Lancashire, pungent Mont D'Or, and finally my favourite, the strong agressive blues of the Roquefort and Gorgonzolas.
Coupled with these presented by Joel from Great Western were different wines from all over the globe, including prosecco, Gewurtztraminer, a Bourgogne Pinot Noir, Spanish Rioja, Trinity Hill Syrah from Hawkes Bay and a Castera Cuvée.
After the tasting finished I tried a few charcuterie platters and fresh-baked breads before heading home to dream of goats rolling cheese in ash.
I really want to return soon to try the full a la carte menu as the food we did have was sublime.
Best quotes from Tom the chhese-man:
''In the Pantheon of cheeses, roquefort and gorgonzola are at the pinnacle - the Holy cheeses of Zeus himself''
''Wensleydale is effectively failed roquefort''
''The Swiss version of Mont D'Or killed more people than any other cheese''
''Let me demonstrate milk proteins on my fingers if I may''
''Ironically, hatred of your neighbours is responsible for some of the best cheeses''

Never has delicious cheese been presented in such a knowledgeable and acerbic way.