Smallman1 I went there on Fri for the first time for lunch. Great refurb (I used to work almost opposite in 2009 so often went there for lunch pints - when that were still acceptable practice) but the restaurant tables are too small and too close together.
The food was largely great - smoked salmon then fillet and duck fat chips for moi - and a notable shout out to the fresh, warm rolls they serves. But the Grand Marnier souffle I shared with the Duchess was a tepid eggy horror. Two glasses of mid table plonk each.
It was a shade over £200, though. That’s Michelin star territory in my experience and it neither has nor deserves one (or more).
And despite prefacing lunch with 3 pints of Guinness I’m buggered if I could taste any difference in the pints from anywhere else in London. My ill-educated palate, I presume.
