Boxcar Bar & Grill is a relaxed, neighbourhood restaurant and bar in Mayfair, serving up ingredient-led plates. As its name suggests, the menu revolves around dishes cooked using grill techniques, favouring market-sourced produce.
Start with something for the table and pick from Boxcar's selection of sharers. We like the sound of Orkney scallops with chorizo and samphire, grilled black pudding with fruit chutney, and the beef shin croquettes with Worchester ketchup. When it comes to mains, an obvious choice is to check out steaks and cuts to share, with highlights being Scottish sirloin, Cote de Boeuf and Angus fillet, all served with peppercorn sauce or red wine jus.
Or, how about the market fish with caper butter and grilled broccoli, the Boxcar market salad or porkchop with apple sauce? The sides sound delicious, too, with choices such as fries with rosemary salt, creamed potato with spring onion and green beans with shallots and bacon.
When it comes to drinks, cocktails are the order of the day at Boxcar Bar & Grill. On the drinks list, you'll find interesting twists on classic concoctions like the Umami Martini with Umami gin, vodka, Cocchi Americano and Japanese bitters, or the Walnut Old Fashioned which mixes Two Drifters spiced rum, maple and walnut bitters.
The restaurant's decor combines several interior trends, stylishly bringing together rustic and industrial sensibilities, with a farmhouse edge. Neutral, earthy tones and a mix of textures come through in materials such as wood, exposed brick and tiles, making for an effortlessly cool and atmospheric place to host friends.
Boxcar has two private dining areas; The Atrium on the ground floor is semi-private, benefitting from the buzz of the main restaurant, with capacity for 16 seated and 20 standing. While The Tap Room is a subterranean enclave with its own minibar and enough space to hold up to 30 people.