Toulouse Lautrec

Wow - what an incredible surprise! Just down the Kennington Road , between estates and the south circular, is this fabulous little French bistro and jazz club, Toulouse Lautrec . Run by Nolan and Florent, the sons of the owners of the next-door Lobster Po

We had the set menu, and thoroughly enjoyed the food and wine. Good variety on offer (to be expected from a French chef) and great service.

We had a fantastic date night in the piano room. We had one bottle of wine, 2 x starters, 2 x mains, and 2 x desserts - the bill came to £144 with the music and service charges included. I thought the food was delicious, but found the portions were on the smaller side. The singers were amazing, we really enjoyed the music and the mood of the place. Lots of positive vibes and great service. Would happily go back.

My husband and I had our anniversary dinner at the piano room. Very cosy ambience and talented jazz singer. There wasn’t a lot of space though, but this was a minor issue. We loved the food. The starters were superb. The asparagus dish with poached egg had such fresh ingredients. The croquettes were very tasty as well. The mains were delicious, especially the Guinea fowl. The cream sauce was amazing. The duck confit burger was good too. Serving sizes were just right. Service was good, although there weren’t a lot of waiters to serve all the the tables. Nevertheless, we’ll come back to try other dishes as we love Toulouse Lautrec’s take on French food.

***edit*** We went back tonight and it is cost that the bad experience below was a mere blip. All tonight was fantastic and many thanks to Nolan and Team for recognising the issues and rectifying them quickly. Welcome back to our local favourites list! ***precious outdated review*** I don’t leave negative reviews lightly for independent local businesses, but this place really let me down tonight. We have eaten here dozens of times, and I used to class it as a real local gem - in fact I brought my extended family here on Christmas Day and spent over £1,000 in the restaurant, so I know this place well. However, tonight we felt embarrassed to have recommended it to friends. The front of house team were maybe overstretched, but the service has hugely gone down hill. No warmth, hospitality, or sense of service. We were constantly left feeling we weren’t looked after and it impacted our evening at every touch point. Some examples: -We were left without menus for 10 minutes when we were seated. There was no sense of urgency thereafter to make up for the mistake. - nobody checked if we wanted drinks when glasses were empty - when we did ask for a second bottle of wine (after waiting for the server to acknowledge us) we waited far too long for it to be delivered, because he was playing with the iPad system to put it through (he easily could have done after serving us) - after the live music ended the server disappeared and the dining room got very cold and the room filled with the smell of cigarette smoke (It later transpired the door to a terrace had been opened and I presume the waiter was out there smoking) - we had to flag down a different server from downstairs to ask for the bill and when we asked to reduce the service charge from £26 (table of 4) to £10 in view of the various issues, it took 10 minutes to get a revised bill - we expressed our dissatisfaction at having to wait even longer and we were dismissed (apparently the new integrated billing system couldn’t be overwritten at the table so we had to be further inconvenienced). - finally, we noticed on the bill that they add the service charge to the £7 performance fee now, not only to the food and drink, which makes absolutely no sense and inflates what is already a generous service charge percentage. Please bring back some of the old front of house team, or at least some of the warmth that used to make this a home from home for us.

This restaurant is a good France restaurant. Its decoration is lovely. Staff is very friendly. You can listen good live music. We went as a large group for birthday party. Everything was good.

We had a booking for the piano floor. It was really great, great atmosphere, French food with amazing quality, and the pianist also was very good and interactive. We would go back, and we will recommend for sure for our friends, for a fine dining experience.