Darby’s is a contemporary restaurant at 3 Viaduct Gardens in Nine Elms. The venue brings together a bakery and daytime counter with a full dining room, moving naturally from breakfast and lunch into oysters, dinner and evening drinks.
The à la carte menu is seasonal and changes as ingredients become available, balancing polished restaurant cooking with an approachable neighbourhood feel. Oyster happy hour gives seafood a distinctive place in the week, while set lunch choices provide a more structured daytime visit.
Sunday has its own menu and set experience, and larger groups can arrange one of the restaurant’s preorder menus. This combination lets the kitchen serve individual diners, celebrations and shared meals without reducing every occasion to the same format.
Wine and other drinks are treated as part of the meal, with a published corkage policy available for guests wishing to bring a special bottle by arrangement. Darby’s works for a pastry and coffee in the morning, a business lunch or a longer dinner in the developing Nine Elms district.
Address: 3 Viaduct Gardens, London SW11 7AY, England
Darby’s Menu
Snacks
Cerignola olives
(v)
Oysters
Carlingford / Achill (min. 4 per order)
Darby’s sourdough
cultured butter (v) (take a loaf home for 5.50)
Crispy beef nuggets
“Big Mac” flavours (2 pieces)
Cornish octopus skewer
n’duja glaze (2 pieces)
Smoked eel ‘Grillda’
gordal olive, guindilla chilli (2 pieces)
Pickled Cornish sardines
grilled courgette
Tempura courgette
whipped ricotta, pickled trombetta
Cantabrian anchovies
on toast
Diver scallop
XO butter
Small Plates
House charcuterie
preserves
Stracciatella
white peach, pinenuts & Vesuvio tomato (v)
Sommerset beef carpaccio
potato crisps, 24m aged parmesan, Tuscan olive oil
Truffled Baron Bigod
fig & walnut toast (v)
Garden, Sea, Land
Please be aware some cuts of meat may take up to 50 mins
Smoked Westcombe ricotta agnolotti
peas & roscoff onion, pecorino Romano (v)
Beef shin & bone marrow pie
(please allow 25 minutes)
1/2 Somerset Saxon chicken
girolles & fino sauce
Brill confit
beurre blanc, preserved lemon, caviar
Old Spot pork chop
greengage, sorrel, pinenuts
Aurox flat iron steak
(200g)
Aurox aged beef rib
(350g)
Aurox aged beef rib on the bone
(800g)
Sides
Gem lettuce salad
caesar dressing, pangrattato
Vesuvio tomato salad
Fine beans
confit shallots
Potato & new season garlic gratin
Darby’s crispy beef fat chips
Peppercorn / bearnaise / XO sauce
Sunday Roasts
Sunday Menu. Please be aware some cuts of meat may take up to 50 mins.
Beef shin & bone marrow pie
(please allow 25 minutes)
Pollock
new potatos, mussles
Aurox beef
crispy potatoes, spring greens, carrots, gravy & Yorkshire pudding
Hampshire pork loin
apple sauce & Sunday trimmings
Slow cooked lamb shoulder
& Sunday trimmings (for 2 to share)
Half Somerset Saxon chicken
Sunday trimmings (for 2 to share)
Smoked celeriac
charred hispi cabbage & Sunday trimmings (v)
The Holy Trinity
Beef rump, Hampshire pork belly & lamb shoulder with trimmings (min. 2 pax)
Sunday Sides
Vesuvio tomato salad
Cauliflower cheese
(v)
Potato & new season garlic gratin
Sunday trimmings
(vo)
Set Lunch Menu
Tuesday – Friday 12:00 – 15:00. 2 courses £26, 3 courses £29. Flat-iron steak supplement £6.
Jerusalem artichoke soup
roast garlic & parmesan toast
Ironbark pork belly
cannellini beans, pancetta, radicchio, caper & anchovy dressing
Flat-iron steak
Darby’s beef fat chips, bearnaise sauce, watercress. £6 supplement.
Barolo poached pear
whipped ricotta, brown butter & honey walnut
Cocktail Special
Manhattan Sour
Sir Davis whiskey, Cocchi vermouth, lemon, egg white