“It’s not exactly cheap”, but the café off the foyer of the famous Mayfair auction house offers a simple but classy menu, realised to a “consistently excellent” standard.
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Mr Norman seems – oddly for a Guardian man – to be getting a bit of a taste for Mayfair, and his latest venture is to the café of the Mayfair auction room “where the obscenely moneyed and their agents fortify themselves for a fatiguing afternoon's arm-raising. “For those who enjoy a gawp at humanity's more exotic subspecies, this place is a voyeuristic treasure house”, says the critic “but against all initial expectations I must also recommend it for the food”. (Mr Norman, unwisely, is clearly not consulting his copy of Harden’s before dining out!)
Matthew Norman (25th February 2008)
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