Last Updated on January 27, 2026

Celebrating ethically sourced food

London’s M Restaurants – in Canary Wharf, Victoria and Threadneedle Street – have teamed up with the Ethical Butcher and regenerative farmer Neil Harley to mark this year’s Regenuary campaign with a special set lunch menu. The Regenuary Set Lunch will be available until the end of February and features regeneratively farmed, carbon-neutral beef and other ethically sourced produce including fish and vegan dishes. 

The main idea behind Regenuary is to encourage people to think about the impact on the environment of the food we buy and eat. The campaign, which has been running since 2019, asks us to seek out locally grown, seasonal food produced by ethical businesses and regenerative farmers. The focus of this year’s Regenuary is on the food we eat outside the home. As an omnivore and Veganuary failure, I like the idea of putting more effort into thinking about where the food I eat comes from and its environmental cost, as well as animal welfare, so I was interested to go along to M Canary Wharf to try out their Regenuary menu.

The Ethical Butcher’s rump steak, which forms the centrepiece of the Regenuary menu, comes from cattle that have been allowed to roam for up to 30 months before being slaughtered. This is about double the standard time in the UK. They are also fully pasture fed and reared on farms that are dedicated to regenerative management of the soil. This means creating complex ecosystems and locking the carbon into the ground to try and offset the carbon produced by the cattle.

M Canary Wharf occupies the first floor of Newfoundland, a newish residential tower just a few minutes’ walk from the DLR and Jubilee Line stations. The restaurant is a spacious, glossy and stylish place, with a choice of watery views over the Thames or the docks plus friendly, helpful staff. 

For those with a lingering attachment to Dry January, there’s a good selection of adult soft drinks and mocktails available at M Canary Wharf. My dining companion was in a no-alcohol mood so picked the Clean Margarita. This combination of Clean Co. Clean T (standing in for the tequila), Agave and Lime Juice certainly looked like the real thing but obviously lacked that vital kick that tequila would have brought. 

I, meanwhile, was in the mood for a glass of wine and picked the Mâcon-Villages Les Préludes, Vignerons des Terres Secrètes – a smooth-drinking white Burgundy. There is a huge selection of wines available by the glass here so it’s ideal for parties with different tastes in wine or people who want to try something different with each course.

Sometimes it’s the simplest things that leave a big impression and set the scene for a good meal. We loved the miso and furikake sourdough and beef butter at M Canary Wharf. The butter here is infused with wagyu beef fat and scattered with crunchy sea salt, a perfect match for the crunchy bread. My companion declared it posh bread and dripping. 

Offering a choice of ethical beef, fish and vegan starters and mains, there should be something to please most people on M Canary Wharf’s Regenuary set lunch menu. 

My companion chose the cobia tartare as her starter. Now, this was beautiful to look at, with a St Ewe egg yolk glowing bright orange through a circle of edible red rose petals hiding a bed of fish tartare. The fish was light, citrussy and refreshing and dotted with tiny capers. The dish came served with a mini brioche bun that was a sweet and crisp foil to the egg.

My choice, the ethical beef yakitori, was simplicity itself – a single skewer of sliced steak cooked in a tare sauce with a spicy yuzu koshu emulsion. The beef was tender, perfectly pink and succulent.

Onto the main course, my companion ordered the ethical steak frites and Parisian green sauce and thought it the perfect portion size for a weekday lunch. She loved the way it was presented with sliced steak sitting on a bed of the french fries, both drizzled generously with the rich, herby green sauce. Tender, well-cooked beef, well seasoned. The chips were skin-on and packed with flavour. 

I followed up my meaty starter with the fish main course – Black king fish with lemon beurre blanc and caper sauce. This is a simply presented plate of fish perched in a generous sea of sauces heady mix of white wine, butter, shallots capers and chives. I received an extremely generous plate of flaky fish with perfectly crispy skin, perched in a generous sea of sauces – a heady mix of white wine, butter, shallots capers and chive. 

With the Regenuary Menu, it is, of course, possible to stop at two courses but we weren’t going to do that.

I ordered the brownie and was somewhat childishly disappointed to discover that this was the vegan option. I’m still from the school of thought that brownies and their like generally benefit from the presence of butter. I like my brownies gooey in the middle and crispy on the top. While this version was densely chocolatey in flavour it lacked that fudge consistency. The Snickers ice cream was pleasingly peanutty and the honeycomb delightfully crunchy.

My companion’s mixed berry cheesecake with a winter fruit sorbet was another dish that was lovely to look at.  The consistency of the filling was on the smooth, cool pannacotta spectrum but with a strong cheese flavour that was very agreeable. There was just a whisper of mint in the thin jelly sealing in the pretty pieces of fruit on top of this dessert, which was served with a deep almost savoury wild berry sorbet.

The Regenuary Set Lunch Menu is available from Monday to Friday and costs £25 for two courses and £30 for three. If you’re intrigued by Regenuary, I’d recommend visiting one of London’s M Restaurants before the end of February to try out this special ethically sourced lunch. You don’t need to be a steak-lover, there are vegan options on the set menu too. If you don’t make it in time, M offers carbon-neutral beef on their a la carte menu all year round. 

M Canary Wharf: mrestaurants.co.uk/restaurants/canary-wharf

First floor – Newfoundland
London
E14 4BH

The Ethical Butcher/Regenuary: ethicalbutcher.co.uk/pages/regenuary

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