It's one of the few places that seems to transition from being a bustling restaurant and bar on a Friday night to a sedate breakfast spot on a Saturday morning with no trouble at all. Usually there's the faint waft of Jack Daniels that hits the back of your throat or that sinking feeling that you are sitting in the remains of someone's Margarita from the night before.
Service is snappy and the breakfast options are excellent - a plethora of choice and great smoothies and juices to offset the Full & Proper Breakfast. There are newspapers, magazines and the like, and it's the sort of place that you could hang around all day...
...and if you've got no place else to be, from 11.30 on a Saturday you can get stuck into the brunch menu, which is a mix of breakfast classics and imaginative, fullsome dishes like red deer casserole and lobster lasagne.
Stick around until the evening and the dinner menu kicks in -varied, with more excellent main courses and cute sharing plates to start you off.
Just one note of caution: the RHC requests that you call ahead if you're coming with a dog, particularly at busy times. The official line is that if your dog fits in a bag you'll be allowed in, but when we went nobody seemed to object to the presence of a medium-sized lurcher and the staff were all lovely.
Pictures to follow shortly.
The Riding House Cafe, 43-51 Great Titchfield Street, W1W 7PQ
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