Cepages

Amazing food, wine and atmosphere. Was a highlight!! 10/10 recommend

A party for 4. Food was delicious, service great and wines wonderful. Lots of fun and the little cake prepared was a nice surprise for the birthday boy. Not a cheap place - especially if ordering wine - however worth the occasional treat / birthday treat in this case.

A great little french bistro serving small plates. As you'd expect they also have an excellent wine list. Reservation is a highly recommended as it's a very popular West Bourne Grove venue.

Best authentic French cousine you will find in notting hill. The decor and wine fully give you the french bistro experience you would expect in a cute town at the south of france!! The prices are reasonable for the level of service and quality of food. The mushroom capucino and veal were absolutely amazing with red wine pairing! Will definitely reccomend.

Outstanding food. Every dish we ordered was amazing, from start to finish. The wines were excellent. And a fantastic service on top of that. We will definitely be coming back.

Admittedly visited last winter and before lockdown, but I wanted to record that this is an excellent place - either for a date night or a small group. There was an impressive selection of wines; yes, the price is on the high side but one expects this for the area. The only thing to be aware of, however, is that ordering food (even if just a selection of cheeses) is OBLIGATORY. So plan on going here for supper as well. Perhaps in these COVID times, it is good not to go into too many different places...so just plan to spend an evening here! Really fantastic atmosphere and I hope the business continues to thrive in these times.

I’ve had the pleasure to visit this cute restaurant several times. I never miss the occasion to eat there everytime I visit London. Food, service and wine are absolutely divine. It is, for sure, a must do in Nottinghill !

We had a truly wonderful and relaxing meal (and drinks!) with great recommendations from L’Artiste and also Phillipe. Would highly recommend for a more refined dining experience at Village Nature x

Cute little wine bar, nice selection of small plates and wines on offer, with a good atmosphere.

We had a lovely time, great service and atmosphere. The food is amazing, we have been looking for a place where we can taste something different the chef is passionate about his job and the service come with the quality. THIS IS THE PLACE TO GO! I highly recommend. Thanks again.

Great wine and food and really lovely staff. Chilled and kind atmosphere. We had a fantastic time and I will come back for sure!

Amazing place and incredible quality of food. It's an experience rather than anything else. Feeling spoiled by the chef, who's very attentive to his guests. The foie gras crème brûlée is to die for. I highly recommend anyone to stop by this amazing restaurant if they want to have a taste of what real French cuisine acrually tastes like.

I just dined at Cepage[s] and it was a very pleasant experience. Having noted it was fully booked I chanced a late afternoon dash across town for a drink out the front and was generously accommodated. Other reviews note the price, and yes, it isn't cheap. However given the superb quality of the food and in particular the thoughtful selection of wines by the glass, you are getting what you pay for. It's hard to make turn a profit on both food and wine of this quality and this Bistro is to be commended and encouraged for its efforts. Take the chance, you will be rewarded.

My favorite French restaurant in London. Huge wine selection, amazing food quality cooked with passion and turned so delightful - thank you chefs ! Sweet team, Nico & Vickish the new manager will give you the best recommendations. Love this sharing concept, familiar restaurant. Feel at home anytime I’m going there. Thanks guys !! Xx

Everything we had was absolutely delicious and atmosphere was so warm and welcoming. I am a cookery teacher and my friend is a true foodie and we both agreed that the quality of food was amazing. It brought us to an evening in Paris. The only negative is this place is a bit too far from me... Otherwise I would visit every week! Highly recommend.

I really love this place! It has a very cosy vibe with delicious wines and food. I wish the portions were larger as it is quite pricey. Good for two people to share but you would need to order a lot for a bigger group. Really enjoyed the langoustine ravioli dish and dessert was great too!

Excellent service and brilliant wine! I really appreciate the amazing staff. Thank you so much!

Lovely food and service, nice selection of wine. Bread was a little bit stale, but will come back again

Nice little French restaurant. Menu with great selection. Wine and drinks are all nice.

Tasty food and good vibes, service is a bit slow and staff is not very attentive to the clients. Worth trying once out of curiosity.

Nice ambiance, unpretentious atmosphere, although it gets very busy and noisy on a Saturday night. Broad selection of wines and small plates. We had grilled seabass, ricotta gnocchi and a charcuterie platter and everything was delicious.

Love this spot, quiet for a Friday but the staff are always super helpul. Great selection of French food, wine and the cheese menu while small is excellent. Well worth a visit for sure. You won't be disappointed. Always wise to book. 👍

Small place, relaxed atmosphere and nice welcoming low key decor. Food is designed to be shared, expect to order 5-6 small plates. Everything was really beautifully cooked, but small. Extensive wine list! Would recommend.

Great menu, great food, amazing cheese selection, the atmosphere is lovely! The reason for no 5 stars was that one of the servers KEPT topping up our (half full) wine glasses from our bottle in what seemed like an attempt to get us to drink faster and buy more wine! Still would go back...but will just decline the top ups!

Good food and good service. This restaurant offers small plates, which can easily run up a bill, but at least we left satisfied. The cheese foam on the onion soup was interesting. The escargot were great, but I wish there was more butter and herbs in the plate to dunk our bread into. The chestnut mushrooms were also good. The only plate I didn’t like was the monkfish, which I thought was too salty for me. The risotto part of the monkfish dish was nice, but the fish was just too much. Save room for dessert - the chocolate mousse was great.

The food was good, portions were small. The wine, however, was served at the wrong temperature. This is surprising as this is a wine bistro and you would expect some expertise on serving temperature.

I booked this restaurant for my husbands birthday. I booked a cab for a 10 minute journey that turned into 35 minutes. The sat nav alerted the driver to a police incident when we were just around the corner and he went all the way back to Ladbroke Grove and all its chaos. Then we ended up at a closed road which diverted us again. Aware of the 10 minutes grace allowed I called the restaurant to let them know we would be about 5 minutes late. We arrived 7 minutes late, stressed. I immediately apologised to the lady who showed us to our table but she was not friendly with no smile. Demanding our order before I had fully sat down and taken my coat off, wanting to know what sides, I had to ask where the menu was, we couldn't read it as both forgotten our reading glasses, fortunately I could remember it. I was in the middle of asking for a bottle of wine when she walked away. Realising I was still talking she came back and made me feel as if it was totally absurd to be asking for a bottle of wine at that point. She must know that is normal in many English restaurants. She could have politely just said that another person would take the wine order. It was so unpleasant and bizarre I said to her I don't feel like I am in a restaurant. I work with people who arrive for booked appointments. If someone is late it is obvious if it is genuine or not and as a professional my aim is to make them feel welcome and comfortable, it may mean they cannot have the appointment or all of it but I would never be rude. We only had a main and a dessert so there was plenty of time. She did eventually smile and was friendly by the end of the meal. The food was great and the other lady who also served us was professional and kind.

Lovely place and now my third time but probably my last. Very romantic but the taste of the food is a let down when it arrives. Lacking in flavour..Portions are tiny..expensive wine too if you buy by the glass. No real vegetarian options. Not gluten friendly. Service great but think this place could be so much better if they got the food right.

The atmosphere was very pleasant, however the food was fine and the main dishes were a bit overpriced considering the ingredients were basic and the some of the portions (e.g the steak) were not that big.

The place is nice, the food is good but it's just way too expensive Good (not amazing, just good) wine selection way uberly overpriced. Plates are good but portions are ridiculously small. I've been a few times and it was a while since last time. Unfortunately not sure I'll be back anytime soon now. Just too expensive for what you get.

The bistro came recommended and my expectations were high. On my first visit we were told that the difference between two selections from the wine list is that one is cheap and the other one expensive with no further input to grape variety and appellation. The cured meats charcuterie was small with apparently pork, pork and pork rather than describing the selection by name or process. There was no gluten free bread or crackers on offer which did not allow me to share the camembert with the rest of the company or enjoy the cheese platter as one should. The main dishes were well prepared but small for a dinner unless you order 2 or 3 which will make your main dish the price of Michelin starred restaurant. I will not visit again and do not recommend it unless the service improves to reflect the standard initially intended.

I visited Cepages for a "back to my roots" dinner, as we are both French. We started with onion soup and a mushroom tartelette, followed by two bavettes (one rare and one well-done). Unfortunately, the experience fell short. The onion soup was served in a small bowl with thick French baguette soaking up all the liquid, leaving just a few spoonfuls of soggy bread and barely any soup. The mushroom tartelette had a hard, unpleasant pastry, which we didn’t enjoy. The bavettes were the real disappointment. The well-done one arrived first, but it was almost completely raw inside, so I flagged this to the waiter. My rare one came five minutes later, but it was cold, undercooked, and barely seared—almost like it had come straight from the fridge with just a brief sear. By that point, I had lost my appetite and decided to skip dessert. I ordered mint tea, which never arrived, while my friend’s chocolate mousse/soufflé came out completely liquid. We asked the staff if the chef was French, and were told that no one, including the chef, was. This was concerning, as we had hoped for an authentic French dining experience. The bill came to £120 for the two of us—£60 each, with no alcohol, just water. We were extremely disappointed and left feeling that this restaurant does not represent true French cuisine.

Based on the reviews I think we may have gone on a bad night for the chef… Ratatouille was deconstructed, came chilled and had an overcooked poached egg on top with zero flavor - fine if you want to put your own spin on a dish, but maybe explain it in the menu and also make sure it tastes better than the original. Beef tartare was rubbery and flavorless. Escargots were a highlight. For mains we tried the croque monsieur which isn’t even close to an authentic version, it was basically a toasted sandwich with pesto or some green sauce - ham and cheese were scarce, almost completely missing. Mussels and pomme dauphines were fine - not much to them, not good or bad. Overall the service was wonderful, excellent, attentive staff and the ambiance of the restaurant is lovely, but unfortunately the food was just a huge miss I don’t think we would be back.

Went for a birthday and they didn't allow us to have the cake we brought with us after our meal albeit that we had spent £300 on food and wine. We were told that we had to have a minimum of 3 deserts from their menu (totalling £21) to be allowed to have our cake - akin to a corkage fee but the logic is completely flawed. Not only would 3 deserts in addition to a birthday cake be a complete waste of food, the tip they would receive in the ordinary course of a meal would have been much higher than £21 on a £300 bill had they acted courteously. Instead, we had to deal with an arrogant and rude waiter (male+bearded), who despite initially stopping us from "over ordering" at the start of the meal, told us at the end that £300 was not a high enough bill to warrant having our birthday cake. Manager was not present on the night either. As for the food, average at best.

What I thought would be a romantic drink in a French wine bar was a shameful experience, with seats harder than gnarled bark, and dry to non existent service, that only came in flutters and often at the wrong time. I thought classic French, maybe even a touch of Edith piaf. Some light metal music followed by a few mid 80s mashups, finally sprinkled with some basement jazz, to heavy and hard for me. The wine was fine, but I ordered the scallops, not knowing it was a ceviche(it doesn't say so) it was so heavily salted the passion fruit topping was salty. The bread and butter at £4.50 was a shamefully small portion and the butter had come directly out the fridge. Rock hard! I had duck rillette and a tapenade both failed to amaze. Really what got me was that we didn't touch the scallops the waiter came and cleared in such a swift move he didn't notice we hadn't eaten it, and when I fed back he told no one. Which lead to three other people asking how much I had enjoyed the food. The room is snug, not really I place for open complaints. But I won't be back.

Nice atmosphere, smallest portions of food I have ever seen in my life like honestly ridiculous and I'm a Londoner I eat out a lot and am used to small portions but the 'steak' was literally the size of a ping pong ball, it was £90 for 2 of us and honestly I can't recommend

The weirdest place I have been to in my life, service was off. They knew nothing about their own wine list, which I could live with. The mains were smaller than the starters but with very good presentation. All very odd. I then left a bag in there under the table which had been purchased 30 mins before stopping for lunch, I went back and was told the bag was empty, so ultimately accusing another customer of stealing the item, which were strawberry print baby leggings. I was not buying this odd story from these exceptionally odd people and what happened the baby leggings appeared with 3 minutes. The weirdest people, the weirdest management I’ve ever experienced in London, what a bunch of freaks.

DO NOT BOOK. Seems to have gone out of business. Booked on OpenTable and they accepted the reservation but nobody answers the phone and restaurant is shut. The very least you could do before going out of business is set your online reservation platforms to stop accepting reservations.

Extremely Disappointed with Cépage Restaurant I was incredibly excited to dine at Cépage after seeing glowing ads and TikToks promoting the restaurant. I even invited a close friend along, hoping to share what I anticipated would be an amazing experience. Unfortunately, it turned out to be nothing short of a disaster. The food was absolutely shocking. My friend ordered the onion soup, which was essentially a soggy piece of French baguette drowning in a watery liquid—hardly what I’d call a soup. I opted for the mushroom tartelette, which bore no resemblance to a tartelette in taste, texture, or presentation. It was utterly appalling. For our mains, we both ordered bavettes. Mine had to be sent back because I requested it well-done, and it arrived rare. The béarnaise sauce was unrecognizable—its aftertaste was unpleasant, and it didn’t resemble a proper béarnaise at all. Hoping dessert would redeem the meal, I ordered the “famous” chocolate mousse I had seen online. To my horror, it was a tasteless mess—more like runny dark chocolate covered in something unidentifiable. It wasn’t a mousse or a soufflé, just a complete disappointment. To top it all off, we ordered mint tea, and it never even arrived. When I voiced my concerns to the manager, she simply handed me the bill of £120 (and mind you, no alcohol was involved, only water) and said, “Thank you.” I left feeling frustrated and utterly let down. For such a highly marketed establishment, the experience was terrible. I will never return, and I can’t recommend it to anyone. Many thanks, Nadia

As a vegetarian it might be considered unwise to go to a French restaurant, but I wasn't the one who booked it. Anyway, there is one vegetarian starter (ratatouille) and one vegetarian main (larger ratatouille), both come with a poached egg. There are no vegan dishes. I opted to have a baked camembert as a main. Glad I didn't have the ratatouille twice, it was flavourless. The dauphinoise potatoes were also flavourless. My meat eating friends didn't enjoy it either. Not too surprisingly we were never asked if everything was okay.