Charlotte’s Place is on a corner at the bottom of Ealing Common. If I had to name the cuisine, I’d call it French-British fusion. I’ve been there several times over the last 4 years. It’s probably one of the fancier places in Ealing.

They renovated the building in mid-2005. The changes to the building were a mixed bag, in my opinion. Before, it was a small, cramped, old brown wood building with a lot of charm. It’s now a less-interesting white ultra-modern set of rooms with an open kitchen. In other words, like every other modern restaurant. If you like clean, white open spaces, then you’ll like this, though. Me, I like character. The good points of the reno are that it’s got more room: lots of downstairs seating, in fact, with a little jazz piano.

The service is usually very good.

I remember one meal where my wife started with the lime-cured céviche of sea trout, and I had the honey-roast figs stuffed with foie gras. We shared the chateubriand, which was perfectly done and huge; even the sides (potato, tomatoes, mushrooms, and sauce) were incredible. A bottle of St-Emilion Grand Cru to wash it down, and a dark chocolate and rasperberry mille-feuille (shared) afterwards, made it all just that bit better.

On another visit, it was mille-feuille of wood pigeon, fig, apricot, and parmesan, with roasted garlic & shallots. I’ve had some pretty tasty braised pork belly there, too.

From time to time, Charlotte’s Place drops promotional flyers to individual streets in Ealing. Those flyers give you half-price food for Sunday lunch on one of a couple of dates. It’s a great idea, and certainly got us back in once.

Also, if you sign up for their mailing list, you’ll get info about changes to their menu or their Weekend Early Diner + Comedy Offer.