Frontline Club

Frontline is a welcome haven from the bustling streets of London's Paddington, with the restaurant inhabiting the ground floor of the three storey Frontline media club that uniquely combines eating, drinking and thinking .

Luckily you don't have to be a member of the club to frequent the restaurant, where Head Chef John Taylor's kitchen uses the freshest ingredients, meticulously sourced from small, independent British producers .

Serving a menu that revisits British classics, with plenty of seasonal variation and signature dishes, Frontline's food is straightforward, unpretentious and reasonably priced .

Amongst the starters expect to find crispy pork with hot Tewkesbury mustard and watercress salad and organic oaksmoked salmon with caviar and crème fraiche .

Frontline Classics include Old Bob's sausage, mash and caramelised onion gravy - the sorts of things you tend to dream about when you're covering wars halfway round the world .

The full-blown main courses include steamed organic salmon, sorrel salad, green herb and caper relish, breast of Label Anglaise chicken, purple sprouting broccoli, with pine nuts and bacon bits and rare breed pork chop with black pudding and glazed apples, mustard sauce .

Triple cooked chips are always available on the side and if you've left any room you can treat yourself to Henry's little pot of 'Rolo' chocolate, with ginger nut biscuits to finish .

This modern British cuisine is matched by a truly global 100-strong wine list sourced by Malcolm Gluck, wine author and creator of Superplonk.com .

Luckily the Frontline operate a remarkable fair pricing policy that adds a flat rate of £10 plus VAT to the cost price of each bottle, rather than the 300% mark-ups seen at some restaurants .

So the better the wine, the better the deal .

Signature dishes:

• Stilton, rocket and pear salad with pickled walnuts and spiced creme fraiche dressing (v) £7.50
• Shepherd's pie with braised cabbage £13
• Pollack with salsify, butternut squash and red wine butter sauce £17
• Henry's little pot of 'Rolo' chocolate with ginger nut biscuits £5.50
• Queen Mab's Pudding with raspberries and shortbread £5.50

Opening Times:

• Mon - Fri 8.00am - 11.00pm
• Sat - Sun 9.00am - 11.00pm

All day dining:

• Breakfast is served from 8am weekdays and 9am weekends
• Lunch is available between noon and 3pm
• Afternoon tea complete with cakes and scones runs from 3pm to 6pm.
• Dinner is served from 6pm until late giving people the chance to dine before or after an event.
• On Sundays we serve our legendary roasts

"... the Frontline is a staggering find: big, grownup, lots of wood, but light and jolly with just a hint of foreign battles." - Giles Coren, The Times

"…there is an agreeable, unpretentious, laid-back atmosphere at Frontline… they are just the sort of chaps I would want to run my war." - Fay Maschler, The Evening Standard

"In the Paddington gastro-desert, the Frontline is an oasis. - Toptable