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An fancy new restaurant right in the centre of the Raffles London's hotel courtyard, which opened in 2023 in the OWO, otherwise known as the historic Old War Office. A spectacular circular building, Café Lapérouse's pavillion café is all glass walls, a circular bar in the centre and plush chairs shaped like little shells. Behind it is the ‘Salon Lapérouse’, a no-kids-allowed fine dining restaurant with live piano.
There’s a famous Lapérouse in Paris, which was one of the first restaurants to get three Michelin stars, and Café Lapérouse is a kind of new interpretation of it, with the original Lapérouse bought out by Benjamin Patou of the Moma Group. In 2021, the new, offshoot Café Lapérouse opened in Paris at Hotel de la Marine. This is what you'll find here, as the group plans to launch an international chain.
The menu is exactly as you’d imagine for a hotel restaurant in the heart of town. Dishes come with the option of adding black truffle, pastas are served with all manner of fancy things, and caviar has its own section on the menu. The rest? Small and oh-so French; find a variety of cocktails, a huge wine list and French classics. To start, ‘Lapérouse-style’ snails, gratinée des halles onion soup and croque monsieur. For main, a selection of meat and fish dishes; steaks, beef tartare, sea bass. The chocolate soufflé for dessert is sold as the original Lapérouse’s recipe.