Harden's survey result
Summary
“Dazzling reinvention of African classic dishes”, featuring “really unique combinations and flavours”, has made this much-discussed three-year-old – from Chinese-Canadian chef Jeremy Chan and Nigerian co-founder Iré Hassan-Odukele – one of the most original of recent London openings. It’s in the St James’s Market development near Piccadilly Circus: an area, in contrast, “stuffed with conformity to the norm”, where “the vibes are a bit sterile”. In the evening, the main option is a seven-course tasting menu for £75, but an extended version for £100 is also available.
Summary
“Dazzling reinvention of African classic dishes”, featuring “really unique combinations and flavours”, has made this much-discussed two-year-old – from Chinese-Canadian chef Jeremy Chan and Nigerian co-founder Iré Hassan-Odukele – one of the most original of recent London openings. It’s in the St James’s Market development near Piccadilly Circus: an area, in contrast, “stuffed with conformity to the norm”, where “the vibes are a bit sterile”. In the evening, the main option is a seven-course tasting menu for £75, but an extended version for £100 is also available.
Summary
“Posh and West African food? I didn’t think they went together” – but the “strikingly original fusion” of modern techniques and Nigerian culinary traditional has produced some of “the most interesting cooking in London” at this year-old venue in a new development behind Piccadilly Circus. “An amalgam of an African chef (Iré Hassan-Odukale) and a Heston Blumenthal chef (Canadian-Chinese Jeremy Chan, ex-Fat Duck)”, it is housed in a “Scandi-chic interior”. “One of the most memorable meals of the year”, “it all felt new to me!”
Summary
West African-influenced cuisine – a modern take on traditional Nigerian, Ghanaian and Senegalese flavours, without particular reference to indigenous dishes – comes to St James’s, thanks to (Canadian-Chinese) chef Jeremy Chan (who has previously worked at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, Noma and Hibiscus) and native Nigerian, Iré Hassan-Odukale (born in Ikoyi, Lagos’s most affluent suburb). The venture – part of the the extensive redevelopment of St James’s Market, and by far London’s swankiest African-inspired venture to-date – follows a successful pop-up career (including at Carousel).
Prices
| Availability | 2 courses | 3 courses |  |
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| Lunch | £35.00 |  |
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| Pretheatre | £35.00 | |
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| Cost | Availability | Courses | |
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| Menu1 | 75.00 | D only | 7 |
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| Wine per bottle | £32.00 |
| Filter Coffee | £3.00 |
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| Service | 12.50% |
1 St James's Market, London, SW1Y 4AH
Opening hours
| Monday | 12 pm‑3 pm, 5:30 pm‑10:30 pm |
| Tuesday | 12 pm‑3 pm, 5:30 pm‑10:30 pm |
| Wednesday | 12 pm‑3 pm, 5:30 pm‑10:30 pm |
| Thursday | 12 pm‑3 pm, 5:30 pm‑10:30 pm |
| Friday | 12 pm‑3 pm, 5:30 pm‑10:30 pm |
| Saturday | 12 pm‑3 pm, 5:30 pm‑10:30 pm |
| Sunday | CLOSED |
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