Albion

Press Reviews (4)

• Marina O'Loughlin (14th May 2009)
  4/5 stars
  
  The critic pays “utter respect” to Sir Terence Conran. He could be enjoying a “cigar-puffing retirement”, but has undertaken a “mammoth” Shoreditch project: “three restaurants... and a roof terrace grill – plus 17 individually designed hotel rooms and suites.” She is even more impressed by “its beauty and instant, jaw-dropping appeal”. She reviews the caff, Albion, and finds that it’s like Canteen and S&M Cafe but “just done so much better”, with everything she eats proclaimed a “stodgy joy”.
• Guy Dimond (21st January 2009)
  5/6 stars
  
  TO’s head man heads for Sir Terence Conran’s new caff, and finds it an “astonishingly professional operation in the otherwise dishevelled-looking Shoreditch”.
• Richard Vines (21st January 2009)
  3/4 stars
  
  “People were lining up for tables last Saturday at Albion, the restaurateur Terence Conran’s new casual eatery in London’s Shoreditch”, notes the critic. He was was one of them, and he would “happily do it again if that’s what it takes to get a table. Nuff said.
• David Sexton (14th January 2009)
  3/5 stars
  
  “If Boundary feels like a subterranean secret, Albion, its cut-price brother, is right out there on the street, proudly calling itself a caff. The café section of Terence Conran’s new East End venture is a “fine long room, busy, bright and warm, with a sizeable open kitchen”. “It’s one of those places that at once feels just right”, and it’s also one “where the short menu is prepared with obvious expertise by a sizeable brigade”. For the moment at least, it’s “cheap as chips” too.