Time Out London’s Best Restaurants 2011 - Bentley’s in Hot 50 and awarded in Best Seafood Bars - for full review, please click here.

Trip Advisor, December 2011 -The handsomely cut masculine dark woods and crisp white tablecloths ooze charm; and the air of traditional, polished and perfected Britishness matches one of the best seafood finds in town. Start off by comparing a selection of rock and native oysters (for which Bentleys is justifiably famous) and move on to a marine-inspired take on beef Wellington with monkfish with cep duxelle wrapped in pastry. To go here and not sample the cracking fresh seafood would be somewhat akin to going to Paris and not seeing the Eiffel Tower. That said, when the sun is shining, the terrace is perfect for breakfast. Here (or inside in the Oyster Bar if the weather isnt cooperating) the breakfast menu runs the full gamut; choose from anything from eggs and soldiers to a full-Irish, or kippers to croissants.

View London December 2011, Bentley's Oyster Bar and Grill review -Superbly simple seafood should keep this place busy, but throw in one of London's best dining rooms and another hundred years of success should be an absolute doddle. Mr Corrigan, over to you. 5 stars

Richard Corrigan serves up a treat for Hollywood stars February 2010

Samuel L Jackson and Dionne Warwick in Bentley’s Dublin

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DINE WITH DOS HERMANOS: A BLOW OUT AT BENTLEY’S 

November 2009

On Monday, the evening of the latest DINE WITH DOS HERMANOS, someone asked me why we organise these increasingly popular suppers.

I had to think for a moment, but in the end suggested that, in these days when every new restaurant has to come with a concept (think pop-up, think underground, think nuevo tapas) that it comes as a blessed relief just to sit down for a great meal with lots of interesting people with no other agenda than to have a bloody good time.

Judging by the e-mails, Facebook messages and Twitter DM’s I received from the more well mannered of our guests after Monday’s event, I think it is fair to say that everybody who attended the latest DINE WITH DOS HERMANOS had a very good time indeed. This is primarily thanks to the good folks of Bentley’s, Richard Corrigan’s excellent seafood restaurant on Swallow Street.

Fay Maschler's Review for the Evening Standard. - Established at this address in 1916, Bentley's is well-versed in selling oysters and fish to the gentry. Commendable efforts to move with the times have not always had the happiest results on the plate, but the menu this year has divested itself of too many inappropriate exotic flourishes. If you want to stray from the straight and narrow of, say, a dozen oysters followed by a grilled Dover sole, try the skate and artichoke terrine with red-pepper pesto, and baked salmon with ginger, garlic and Szechuan vegetables. Fresh marinated anchovies perk up a Caesar salad, and fillet of cod with a sauce of mussels and spring onions is well-judged. Non-fish dishes are not mere tokenism. Consider maize-fed chicken with black pudding, apples dauphine and onion marmalade; confit of duck leg on creamed potatoes; and pappardelle with roasted aubergine and pesto. There is a noteworthy British-cheese selection. -