Dinner menu served from 5.30pm
Two courses £25 three courses £30

Aperitif- Pastis £3 + Tanners Manzanilla Sherry £3

Starters
Pea soup, mint cream, warm focaccia (Vegan, GFR)

Roast garlic and lemon hummus, bruschetta, honey and pickled cucumber salad (Vegan on request, GFR)

Wild mushroom and tarragon pate, date and Earl grey chutney, savory oatcake biscuit (Vegan, GFR)

Ham hock terrine, pineapple chutney and warm focaccia (GFR)

Breaded Brie, beetroot & orange salad, pear & cranberry chutney (V)

Vodka and beetroot salmon gravlax, picked vegetables and herb hollandaise (GF)

Mains
Roast on the bone chicken breast, creamy mash, Rosemary, white wine cream sauce (GF)

Slow braised beef croquette served on a pea, spinach and bean cassoulet, with Guiness gravy

Confit duck leg, parmentier potatoes, blackberry & Gin sauce (GF)

Bistro 1709 Salmon and chive fishcake, Pea, Spinach and  bean cassoulet topped with sauté king prawns 

Pan‑fried Hake fillet, roast new potatoes, Caper samphire and herb butter (GF)

Slow‑braised belly pork, mashed potato, apple and vanilla sauce, roasted pear (GFR)

Goats cheese, red onion and walnut wellington, rocket and olive salad red pepper puree (V)

Spiced falafel cake, coconut broth, topped with pickled vegetables (Vegan, GF)


All main courses are served with seasonal vegetables

Sides 
Seasonal vegetables £3 | Parmentier potatoes £3

Desserts
Pedro Ximenez Sherry £3.50 50ml

Warm apple & blackberry crumble, ice cream (GF, Vegan on Request)

Bistro 1709 Sticky toffee pudding, toffee sauce, vanilla ice cream (V)

Warm Vanilla rice pudding, cinnamon and rhubarb compote and ginger crumb (Vegan, GF)

White chocolate and Raspberry Crème brulee, homemade lemon shortbread (v, GFR)

Bistro 1709 chocolate brownie Mars sundae (V)

Smoked cheddar & Hartington stilton, savoury crackers, house chutney +£2, add glass of Port + £3 50ml


We allocate two hours per sitting

About us… the concept.
Back in the 90’s I opened my first bistro in Mill Street, Stafford….Pastiche Bistro. With the help of my team (including our then head Chef at Lichfield, Mark) we opened our second bistro here in Lombard Street in 1999 and grew to a group of nine. I exited the business through a sale in 2005 and myself and now business partner Mark (the creative one doing the cooking!) bought it back from the receiver in 2008 We launched 1709 the Brasserie, rebranding to Bistro 1709 later. Following the pandemic, we are returning to our roots of fixed price, fresh, chef prepared meals with a simple friendly service.  and an A la Carte menu running Friday & Saturday Evenings to make the weekends a little more special! And the name, it’s not the age of the building, it’s Samuel Johnson’s birth year.

Thanks for visiting us, we hope you enjoy your experience.

John Ashmore & Mark Medley

1709.co.uk