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On Kensington Church Street, an upmarket Greek restaurant with an ex-Jean Georges at the Connaught chef, Angelos Togias, who has re-created some of his grandmother's best recipes for the menu.

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Lancer Square, 28A Kensington Church Street, London, W8 4EP

What the Newspaper Critics are saying

The Guardian

Grace Dent stepped out of the concrete and cold of a London winter’s day and into a “movie-set Greece hewn in tones of dappled, early evening Athenian sunshine, all bronze, peach, tan and gold” at a new restaurant currently “flying way under the radar”. “Before I walked in, I was just a woman in thermals with a flaky nose,” she wrote. “But then – bang! – I’m suddenly Christina Onassis sipping a mulberry mournoraki in a rustic yet dashingly chic taverna.”

Thankfully, the food – a “moderately fancy celebration” of “wonderful” modern Greek cooking and ingredients from ex-Connaught chef Angelos Togias – was more than a match for the setting.  

Grace began with a tasting of five olive oils in tiny bowls with house flatbread. To follow, the “apparently predictable taramasalata is miles away from the pink, whiffy mush to which we have somehow grown tolerant as a nation”. The mains – rabbit stifado, monkfish fricassée, grilled octopus with a vierge emulsion, lamb dolmadakia, prawn saganaki  – and a dessert of Greek yoghurt with quince and cardamom oil – were all “equally enthralling”.

Grace Dent - 2025-02-02
Lancer Square, 28A Kensington Church Street, London, W8 4EP

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