Truffle Season: The best restaurants to visit in London for this season’s treat

Truffle is one of the most celebrated ingredients in modern cuisine. Any dish is instantly elevated by this mushroom’s presence. However, this is a type of mushroom that is incredibly season — available only for a few months in a year. And now that we are leaving summer behind and entering autumn, truffle season is finally here.

This mushroom is already a mainstay ingredient in restaurants all across London, but now that it is in season, many luxury restaurants are celebrating this ingredient by featuring them front and centre in their new menus and dishes. 

Here, we list some of the restaurants across the city that are championing this delectable mushroom to satisfy your indulgent cravings this truffle season.COYA, Mayfair

COYA, the luxury Peruvian restaurant with outlets in Mayfair and City of London, is offering guests a full sensory experience by featuring truffles in many of their signature dishes. Some of them include baos de wagyu with pulled wagyu and truffle emulsion adorned with rocket cress as well as the ceviche de corvina a la trufa with stone bass, truffle, ponzu and chives. You wouldn’t think that the mushroom works with ceviche but having personally tried that dish, we can safely say that it absolutely does, and makes for a delicious burst of flavour. Pair with COYA’s Latin American dishes and enjoy the ambience with some nicely paired wines and champagnes curated by the sommelier.INCA London, Soho  

INCA London, the luxury restaurant in the heart of Soho not only provides mesmerising performances with soul-stirring music and gravity-defying dances but also the taste of the season with truffle infused dishes. Enjoy their Nativo show alongside dishes of salmon jalapeno tacos with dried miso, crispy leek and truffle, sticky braised wagyu tacos with salsa de ajo and shaved truffle and finish with truffle chips and chipotle mayo.Riviera London, Mayfair

Riviera in Mayfair is one of the best luxury French restaurants in town and regularly features this delectable ingredient in their dishes — including white truffle, which is one of the rarest in the world. Dishes like sea bream carpaccio with truffle ponzu and sweet potatoes, truffle and goat cheese stuffed courgette flower in tempura and truffle and cheese gnocchi come with an abundance of truffle shavings on top. If you’re in the market for some of the best truffle infused dishes in the city, Riviera London is definitely the place for you. As the chefs themselves say, the inspiration behind using this unique mushroom stems from “a desire to introduce our guests to the unparalleled sensory experience that only this elusive delicacy can offer”.

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