Galvin La Chapelle launches Toast and Taste celebration menu

Michelin-starred Galvin La Chapelle has launched a new limited-time menu to mark its recent success at the City AM Toast Awards, where the Spitalfields restaurant was named Best Restaurant.

Available from January 5 to February 24, the Toast and Taste menu has been created in collaboration with City AM and is positioned as a way of showcasing Michelin-starred cooking at a more accessible price point. Priced at £49 per person for five courses, the menu also includes a complimentary glass of sparkling rosé on arrival.

Curated by Chris and Jeff Galvin alongside executive chef Arturo Granato and the wider kitchen team, the menu reflects the restaurant’s established luxury-led style while focusing on seasonal British produce and precise classical technique.

About Chris and Jeff

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Chris and Jeff Galvin are among the UK’s most established chef proprietors, known for their classical French foundations and long-standing influence on London’s dining scene.

The brothers first gained Michelin-star recognition in the early 2000s and have since built a group of respected restaurants, including Galvin La Chapelle, Galvin at Windows and Bistrot and Bar Galvin at The Athenaeum.

Their cooking is rooted in traditional French technique, refined through a modern lens, with a consistent focus on seasonality, British produce and disciplined execution. Galvin La Chapelle has held a Michelin star since 2011, cementing the brothers’ reputation for delivering high-end dining at scale while maintaining kitchen-led standards.

A five-course Michelin-starred menu at £49

The Toast and Taste experience begins with a series of snacks designed to set the tone for the meal. These include a brick pastry sandwich filled with truffled ricotta and honey, alongside duck liver parfait paired with Moroccan spices and pear chutney.

From there, guests move through a sequence of carefully balanced courses that highlight the kitchen’s refined approach. A cured mackerel dish with green apple, horseradish and hazelnut oil brings freshness and acidity, before a more robust main course of slow-cooked BBQ fallow deer shoulder, served with king cabbage and anchovy bagna cauda.

Dessert continues the theme of restraint and balance, with wild berries accompanied by chocolate gelato and macadamia.

For diners looking to enhance the experience further, optional supplements are available. These include a Dorset crab raviolo as an additional starter, grass-fed beef with celeriac gratin as an alternative main, and a baba au tiramisu designed for sharing.

Making Michelin-starred dining more accessible

While Galvin La Chapelle has long been recognised for its polished fine dining offering, the Toast and Taste menu underlines an ongoing commitment to broadening access to Michelin-starred restaurants without compromising on quality or execution.

Set beneath the restaurant’s striking vaulted ceilings in the former La Chapelle building in Spitalfields, the menu is aimed both at first-time diners curious to experience the Galvin brothers’ flagship restaurant and at regular guests looking for a reason to return during the quieter early months of the year.

The collaboration with City AM also reflects a wider trend across the sector, with top-end restaurants increasingly using fixed-price and celebratory menus to attract new audiences while maintaining the standards expected of a Michelin-starred kitchen.