Les Deux Salons – Accessible West End Restaurant With Great Theatre Location

We provisionally reviewed Les Deux Salons earlier this year, but Fiona’s now been in to audit the restaurant and stopped for a bit to eat. Here’s the updated review…

“I went for Saturday lunch near Covent Garden with Lieutenant Lucy and chose to go to Les Deux Salons. Although they’d said they have step free access (and they do) it was a very steep ramp – step free but not exactly flat. I needed help to negotiate the ramp and to get through the two front doors and I think most wheelchair users would too.  Inside, the restaurant has trendy French décor with a tiled floor and dark wood booths which makes it easy to get around. The disabled toilet was excellent and is in the main restaurant but discreetly placed by the stairs.

The restaurant obviously has two separate rooms, on separate floors, but we stayed on the ground floor which was perfect. The staff were very attentive even though it was busy – buzzy but not so loud you couldn’t hear each other. I had a very good lamb burger and Lucy had cod (I think). Both meals were excellent and not too expensive – it ended up costing about £40 a head but that was with a lot of wine and a glass of champers – Lucy had to cure her hangover somehow!

I’m going to promote Les Deux Salons to a 2.5 BBS Ticks rating. I’m definitely going back as it’s just off St Martins Lane and it’s hard to find a classy place to eat after theatre/opera.”

And here’s our previous post, with more info on what the restaurant’s like:

Les Deux Salons is a Parisian style brasserie in Covent Garden, inside the heart of London’s theatre land.

The restaurant is one of the trio of restaurants from powerhouse, Michelin star winning, pairing of Anthony Demetre and Will Smith (the others are Arbutus and Wild Honey). Les Deux Salons takes up two big floors of gleaming black and white parquet, dark wood and deep leather banquettes and serves classic French dishes along with more surprising fare like the Les Deux Salons hot dog and Snail & bacon pie. It’s not perfect but it is, by all accounts, a very solid imitation of the classic Parisian brasseries, like Bofinger and La Coupole.

The restaurant has step free access from street level although there is an ever so slight dip in the pavement just outside the restaurant doors. The doors are wide enough for wheelchair access and there is always a receptionist near the entrance if you need additional assistance. The restaurant has an accessible toilet on the ground floor but the access on other floor is limited – meaning that for less able visitors Les Deux Salons is more like Le Un Salon – but this is no great loss, there is plenty of space downstairs. Much of the seating is provided by banquettes which may be awkward for groups with more than one wheelchair user.