In a “light and airy” room, this new Provençal addition to the Club Gascon stable “fills a real gap in Midtown”, especially as a place to wine and dine legal types – the lunch menu is particularly “good value”; downstairs, in the bar, check out the pétanque court!
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Chancery Lane, the high street of the London legal world, was until very recently, maintaining the English high street tradition of not having restaurants of any note. The situation has improved a ...
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Press Reviews (1)
John Walsh (22nd November 2010)
Food: 4, Service: 4, Ambience: 5
With its “graceful” lighting, booths that are “so warm and enclosing”, and kitchen “on full display” this former wine bar has been “transformed into a small Provençal paradise” – the outdoors “brought indoors” with everywhere “the spirit of the verandah” and cocktails that “continue the theme”. The menu is “a pleasing hybrid of old-fashioned Provençal” with “Italian grace-notes of pasta and polenta”. Highlights of the “excellent meal” include fish “so perkily solid, so pristinely white. It had been steamed rather than poached” partnered by “perfect lumps of vegetable”, black olive mash that’s “tasty as hell”, and a Bandol recommended by the “charming”, “central Castings” waiter “close to nectar”.
John Walsh (22nd November 2010)
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