Fortnum & Mason has opened a restaurant on the site of what was the Fountain brasserie on London's Jermyn Street.

The 113-cover restaurant (designed by Martin Brudnizki Design Studio) is called 45 Jermyn Street and promises "old school glamour" and "understated sophistication". The restaurant features both table and counter dining options and a signature marble-fronted dining bar, which features two soda fountains offering specially created sparkling soft drinks and ice cream sodas (London’s first soda fountain was originally housed on the site). 

Open from 7am to midnight every day, the restaurant's menu reflects modern London cuisine - overseen by chef Lee Streeton (formerly of The Savoy and Brown's Hotel) serving a menu featuring baked eggs in avocado with Virgin Mary sauce; pan-fried sea bass with ravioli and Isle of Barra cockles and Dover sole ‘of the day’.

A dinner menu (aimed at "night owls, theatre-goers, and art lovers") is full of dishes that have stood the test of time, including baked potato and Caviar, eggs Drumkilbo and lamb cutlets Reform, together with more innovative dishes, such as spaetzle with Dorset lobster and sea aster or vegetable carpaccio with tarragon salsa verde.

Ideal For

Understated glamour pusses...

Signature Dishes

Snails with gorgonzola and garlic butter, grilled bones with toasted sourdough and parsley salt and German spaetzle with lobster and sea aster.

Signature Drinks

The No. 2 made with vermouth, rose pouchong tea, acid and soda; and the No 13 with pineapple and honey syrup, gin, maraschino, black olive, soda and strawberry ice cream.

Highlights

There is also a dedicated caviar trolley serving Iranian Beluga 000, Golden Oscietra and Siberian Sturgeon caviars - weighed and served at the table, starting at £2 per gram and served with accompaniments of toast, baked potato, blinis and scrambled eggs prepared on a small stove at the table.