The Delaunay
The grand café London has always needed and Jeremy King spent a career providing. On Aldwych, in the register of a Viennese café, for every hour of the day.
The Delaunay is the grand Viennese café that London needed and Jeremy King provided — on Aldwych, operating in the register of the great early 20th-century cafés, with wiener schnitzel, bratwurst, strudel, and a room that has the proportions and confidence of somewhere that has always been there. It works at every hour: breakfast before a meeting, lunch before a matinée, late supper after a Covent Garden show.
King's other rooms (The Wolseley, which he has since left, Brasserie Zédel) have the same quality: an understanding that grand café culture is about the format and the atmosphere as much as the food, and that the food still needs to be right. At The Delaunay, it is. The bratwurst is the secret order.
Viennese grand café — wiener schnitzel, bratwurst, Austrian pastry, the egg dishes at breakfast. Classical European cooking without ambiguity or pretension.
The grand café room — polished, high-ceilinged, all-day energy, a room that seats everyone from the pre-theatre crowd to the late-night supper table. One of the most versatile dining rooms in London.
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The Delaunay is the grand café format done correctly in London — Jeremy King understanding the room as much as the menu. For any hour of the day and any occasion that needs a room to rise to, it delivers.
Reserve well in advance — this room fills weeks out, especially on weekends.
Aim for an earlier seating if you want a calmer room; later tables run louder and longer.