The Dairy Bar & Bistro

Amazing. The Sunday set lunch menu was divine and very reasonably priced.

Yet another delightful weekend lunch, grazing through the short but varied menu of small plates include duck pate, mushroom croquettes and skate wing. Delicious

Amazing ambiance, superb staff, wicked music. Had such a great time here, only thing portions were very small... otherwise we absolutely loved it!

My girlfriend and I make the trip down from Manchester every year for The Dairy's taster menu, and every year we are blown away by it. She is coeliac and they do a fantastic job of catering to her requirements; gluten free bread, and anything with gluten replaced with delicious alternatives. The staff are always incredible helpful, chatty and attentive, and for the price, the quality of the food is unbeatable.

We always leave with a huge smile on our faces and you will too; long live The Dairy!

Fine dining with good music playing, lovely food and friendly service. Had a wonderful laid back afternoon with the tasting menu, and we didn’t feel rushed at all. Would thoroughly recommend.

Food was delicious but it was incredibly noisy and the service was a little hit and miss.

Had such a fabulous evening enjoying the vegetarian tasting menu and wines pairing. Food was great, wine pairings well matched and explained to us before each course and there was a really nice atmosphere. We were there for hours and weren't made to feel pressured or like they were trying to clear the table. Would highly recommend for a celebration!

Absolutely amazing taste! Definitely need to have one of each course as they are small dishes, but don't be fooled they are bursting with flavour! My brother and I couldn't stop talking how tasty and amazing it was. Made our family very jealous.

Have their taster menu and it was absolutely gorgeous. Lovely atmosphere and staff. Great wine with the taster. Would highly recommend.

Food was lovely! However the service could have been quicker and more engaging. They recommended 3 plates per person, we had 4 between two of us and it was fine.

Decent food. slow service.

Underwhelming tasting menu and poor service for the price point - basic things like pouring/refilling drinks. Very loud table behind us ruined general atmosphere; spacing of the seating meant rubbing backs with them was unavoidable. Disappointed having been recommended - Trinity, Chez Bruce etc (same area and similar price, though a little more expensive) leaps and bounds above

We chose the lunch menu which is made up of small plates. Delicious chicken liver pate and bread but then more bread for the truffled cheese on toast. Minute fillet of red mullet accompanied by cabbage and fir potatoes was interesting and we finished with the quince upside down cake. Overall for £60 a head including a carafe of wine I thought it was overpriced. It’s only lunch in Clapham after all! Also a minor complaint that the lightning is very dim - lovely in the evening but a bit gloomy at lunchtime

Stunning food, amazing unique wine list and the best rustic restaurant in London with the best food.

Food - excellent
Drinks - excellent
Service - poor - both waitresses appeared to be unhappy to be at work and their attitudes reflected this. One of the waitresses audibly sighed when we asked her to repeat herself after mumbling which order she was carrying. We did ask the first waitress for some substitutes on the menu which were accommodated by the restaurant and this was much appreciated.

Absolutely loved it! Tasting menu and wine both incredible!

Great Food but our table was near the door and was every cold which spoiled the evening. My wife had to put her coat on towards the end of the meal.

The food is delicious, the vibe is really cool, the staff were super lovely and attentive. 100% recommend a visit!

Had a great meal the staff are fantastic as they have been every time we’ve been and the food is amazing

Had huge expectations but was very disappointed. Service was a little to cool for school. Bashing water bottles down. Staff not engaged with tables. Starters bland. Might have been the choices we made but all 3 were different and none stood out. Mains were delicious but very very small. No sides suggested either on ordering so we left hungry really. Not an evening to be remembered. Shame as I was so looking forward.

Stunning food, highest quality sharing plates. Excellent service and knowledgeable wine recommendation. Excellent lunch and can’t wait to return

All perfect except the 45 minute wait. Incredible food.

We loved the restaurant and definitely will be back, the food was fantastic only problem was the mallard was under cooked and made those that ate it unwell later in the evening. The vegetarian food was truly delicious and so was the wine.

we love this place, whether for drinks or the full tasting menu. this was the full tasting menu and it was even better than last month, when it was outstandingly gorgeous. The snacks are so quirky and intensively flavoursome and architectonic masterpieces; the bread course with its homemade chorizo and a gorgeous dipping thing, is a brilliant novelty; the pollack and beef were wonderfully cooked. Wev washed it all down with a superb Pecorino, then a Dolcetto and then got well-squiffy with a 500ml bottle of vin sant to wash down our Baron Bigod on toast and the two desserts. The service is fabulous and friendly. I have no idea what other people have experienced who have complained of service. But I do lunch, mid-week and that's the secret for superb service!! Cant wait to get back there.

Helpful and knowledgeable staff made our visit. I've eaten here before and really enjoy their menus, tasty creative dishes (delicious bread a bonus) with perfect portions (not too much, not too little). Staff seem to delight in your visit, their manner is relaxed but attentive and all were enthusiastic about their restaurant's offering. We were very impressed with them. Happy attentive staff is a good sign of how valued they feel by the powers that be. The restaurant was busy and buzzy but we had no problem with noise levels. We had a lovely evening, our late booking allowing us to linger. Recommend.

The food at the Dairy is as exciting as it has ever been: I still think the tasting menu is fantastic value for what you get. Wine by the glass definitely isn't such good value - some of the more expensive options especially - but it's hard to begrudge...

Really fantastic meal at the dairy, The food was delicious and really good quality , a real treat
Will definitely be back

Great food, though there was a slight hickup with the order. The guy waiter was brilliant but the female was extremely unfriendly - she would literally state what the plate was and walk off. Great value for nice food though.

Great atmosphere, so rare to be able to enjoy very high end cooking in a lively, fun atmosphere

We booked a table for 4 people and we all chose the mouth watering tasting menu with wine pairing. The food was amazing, very elegantly presented, the wines to go with each dish were great and the service was impeccable, friendly but professional and attentive. It was so nice to be somewhere where the staff really seem to want to be there and are enjoying working hard. We could see the kitchen from our table and it was the same there. We got the chance to have a few words with the young lady chef there and told her what a great job she was doing.
It was our 3rd time there and we were still impressed by everything.
Well done everyone.

It’s a regular for us and the tasting menu always a choice as it’s delicious. This time I went with my dad (in his 70’s) and he found the acoustics too loud to fully enjoy the ambiance.

Room is lovely and staff very pleasant. Food was a mixed bag - some excellent, some so-so.
Background music was much too loud for my taste.
I prefer to choose how much tip to give rather than have 12.5% service charge included automatically.

Great food and service. The tasting menu is incredible - from the initial amuse bouche, selection of snacks to main course. Desert (pumpkin pie) was a bit underwhelming. Wine was fantastic and reasonably priced. They were slow with some courses (pollock turned up late & cold-ish) but they recognised this and gave a discount on the bill. Overall, really worth going - food & service is incredible.

The staff were very attentive and accommodating, and the food was both inventive and delicious. I would recommend this restaurant to friends, it is certainly one of the best neighbourhood restaurants in this part of London.

My wife and I aren't made of money, and we cannot afford to go to too many fine dining restaurants, but we hadn't had a date night in a while so I decided to push the boat out a little. Had never heard of the Dairy before but after having a look decided to give it a go. So glad we did! The Tasting Menu was absolutely amazing and considering the level of cooking on display was incredibly good value. The evening may have cost us a bit more than our usual night out but it was worth every penny. Every course that arrived was incredible and I can't count how many times my wife and I exclaimed to one another "oh my God!" after trying a mouthful. Heartily recommend this place and we'll definitely be back.

I was already a fan of The Dairy so I knew what I was getting. Except I didn't! The tasting menu has upped its game significantly since I last had it. The snacks were plentiful, arrived on one spectacular plate and every one was a gushing taste surprise. Marvellous sushi cuttle fish, something with pickled walnut; I can't remember every detail but, aided and abetted by a wonderful Pecorino (white), we started well. My favourite dish at The Dairy is always the bone marrow agnolotti ; followed by translucent pollock. There is now a bread course, featuring a wonderful gazpacho and a spread including subtle anchovy- just gorgeous on their sourdough bread.The pork dish was eversoslightly less brilliant than other dishes but it's hard to find fault. We had another bottle of wine, a dolcetto, which was divine. The baron bigod, as a supplement, was gorgeous and we indulged in a naughty bottle of Vin Sant to wash down the various puds and the cheese. The overarching success of The Dairy, though, to me , is reliant on the sheer bubblyness of the staff. Everyone will talk to you and, boy, do I like to chat at lunch. I think we were there for 4 hours (it was a special occasion) and I can't wait to go back for more of the same on 14 November!

Lovely place but food not nearly as good as it was in the past... Fingers crossed they get back on it!

Never disappoints. Every mouthful is a taste sensation! The level of food is second to none ... high end restaurants should take note of this Clapham establishment! Every dish was literally to die for ! Will be back again and again and again.

I love this place. Never lets me down. Great staff and delicious food.

Lovely food but quite expensive overall. Nice for a special occasion!!