Bellanger Restaurant, Islington Green Has Closed - What next?

The Bellanger restaurant at Islington Green is closed since around August 10th 2019. They said if you have a booking they will contact you.

I was wondering if they would open elsewhere, taking with them the paintings and pictures and furniture. If you want to buy something, now is the time to ask.

Or will they sell the place as is?

Sometimes the landlord asks you to remove everything or charges you for removing it. Sometimes you can offer to sell to the landlord the ovens etc so they can sell it as ready to go restaurant to another business. But other times the landlord won't pay or expects new tenants to be a brand with their own decor starting to renovate and old stuff simply gets in the way.

You can read my old posts about the about to depart restaurant and the locations of other related restaurants and what is nearby in Islington.

Their old address was:
Bellanger Restaurant
9 Islington Green
London N1 2XH
England

Update
Tues 20 Aug 2019. I looked on their website.
The Bellanger website says:
Other dog friendly Corbin & King restaurants:
Soutine in St John's Wood, Colbert in Chelsea and ZL Café at Brasserie Zédel in Soho
Your closest Corbin & King restaurant is now
The Delaunay in Aldwych or Fischer's in Marylebone.

I tried googling their address to see whether another restaurant had opened up on the site but just got referred back to the Bellanger website.

Useful Websites
https://www.bellanger.co.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islington

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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

Brilliant Bellanger Restaurant in Islington Near Euston - get on their dinner list

I returned to Bellanger where we once had a birthday lunch. Brilliant decor.

The Journey
Euston to Angel.To get there from the Angel station, first we walked through the ever so old and nooky Camden passage. Old atmospheric shops, but also new and convenient ones.

Bellinger's is on the green. Islington Green. The green! A strange oasis is the middle of a bustling area.

We went to Euston station then one or two or three stops to Angel station. Strange, bizarre statue at the top of the escalator when you arrive.

The Restaurant
Bellangers is also odd, old wood, seems to go on forever, with alcoves.



I loved the private room at the back. Lots of paintings.


An old fashioned ladies toilet with wooden doors and dividers in dark wood right down to the ground for seculusion and privacy. Not like modern toilet cubicles where you can see other people feet and shadows, and feel rushed, like taking a shower on a campsite. Wooden toilet seats. Two taps on each basin.

Bellanger has pictures of Goethe everywhere.

We went there a couple of years back for a birthday and found it good but pricey.

This time we had a pre-arranged dinner called A Taste Of Alsace and although it was pricey it included three desserts and several glasses of wine.Four glasses. Plus a sorbet between the courses.

If you are arranging a dinner, try to get the chefs (one is South African) to make you the pre-meal filling nibble to share, the tartes flambees, like a giant circular crispy pancake, topped with dices of goats cheese. Alsacienne Chevre, miel et thyme. We had an Alsace theme meal to go with Alsace wines, at a dinner arranged by a promoter of Alsace wines.

The next highlight tangy taste, from the hors d'oevres which followed, was the red onion marmalade.

Finally a triple dessert.

Apricot crumble, Gewurztraminer and gooseberry custard, tart au citron. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

The yellow lemon tart was tasty, tangy, zesty.

All the wines were delicious. Not often I can drink every wine, We finished with a sweet wine to acompany the sweet desserts. 2015 Cuvee Christine Gewurtztraminer. The name is German for spicy traminer grape.

The restaurant runs events throughout the year s they say 'celebrating the best of France'.
Their annual Fete des Rois (festival of the kings) is on January 6th. They say they offer a complimentary meal to any guests in costume.

Bellanger,
9 Islington Green
London N1 2XH
www.bellanger.co.uk
Tel 020 7226 2555.
reservations@bellanger.co.uk

About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and phtographer, author and speaker. Please contact me for a speech on food, wine, travel, learning languages, or any other subject. I used to write for enecyclopaedias and have won numberous prizes for impromptu speeches.

Bellanger Birthday Meal - Sweet and Savoury

At a birthday party at Bellanger restaurant one of our number (birthday boy) was delayed. We started with Croque Madame.

I've always had trouble remembering which is Welsh rarebit and which is Croque Monsieur and which is Croque Madame. I think I've finally got it. Welsh rarebit is just an open toasted cheese sandwich. Out in the Welsh countryside you don't eat a rabbit, just a cheese sandwich. Watch the spelling. It's not rabbit but a rare bite.

The French make food more exotic and complicated like a French restaurant. Add ham for a man (man and ham are two three letter words with a in the middle) and you have Croque Monsieur.

Add egg from a female chicken for a lady and you get Croque Madame. (Two two-syllable words are female and madame and an egg comes from the female chicken).

Here's the Croque Madame from Bellanger restaurant in Islington, London, England. I like the way it comes with lettuce. 

We divided it between two. We had enough side plates to do that. We were not running short of side plates and cutlery as we have been at other restaurants when dividing food.

This photo is not so elegant but it shows you the metal under the egg. I'm not really keen on ham or any cured or smoked meats and fish because I've had a member of my family on a cancer cure or rather cancer recovering after medical intervention diet which involves eating only fresh food. 

Photos by Angela Lansbury, copyright Angela Lansbury.

Pork or Salmon.
If you don't eat pork or simply prefer smoked salmon, an alternative breakfast food would be Eggs Benedict which is scrambled egg mixed with smoked salmon.

I keep typing Ballinger instead of Bellanger. It's not Ball but Bell. Not ginger. With an a in the middle like Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas. But not like Bollinger Champagne, which has double l but rhymes with ginger.  If spell the Bell anger restaurant wrongly and can't find it, you are filled with anger. (As you come out of ANGEL (a  n g) station aim for the statue on the point of the triangle and the restaurant is slightly right of the middle at the opposite flat end of the triangle. And my name is Angela, starting A N G.

PS Of course I never wrote crocus monsieur in the tags. A sneaky spellchecker or predictive text crept up and changed it after I had gone away.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.