Looking for a restaurant with some pretty serious pedigree? This Fleet Street restaurant is from the famous French cooking school, Le Cordon Bleu. Alongside the slick, beautiful dining room (in a grade II-listed Lutyens-designed building) is a café and teaching area, should you want to try your hand at your very own culinary perfection.
The kitchen and menu is overseen by executive chef Karl O’Dell, with dishes that are fiercely seasonal. Produce is sourced as locally as possible, with the best of British ingredients given a Gallic twist. That means dishes such as dry-aged steak tartare with smoked onion, sorrel, mustard and Cognac, and poached Cornish brill with cocoa beans, dill, mussels and a Champagne velouté. Don’t be surprised to see influence from elsewhere in the world, too.
The tasting menus are also worth checking out, especially a plant-based menu that really shows off the creativity in the kitchen.