A NY Times article on the best new restaurants in London, including L’Anima, Le Bouchon Breton, Cinnamon Kitchen, J Sheekey Oyster Bar, Bob Bob Ricard, and Bocca di Lupo:
Full Article – A New Crop of High Profile Restaurants in London
A New Crop of High Profile Restaurants in London
By PAM KENT
LONDON’S vibrant restaurant scene, already considered among the world’s best, shows no sign of slowing down — economic collapse or no economic collapse — with a crop of new, high-profile restaurants continuing to draw the city’s well-heeled foodies.
On a recent Monday night, the recently opened L’Anima was fully booked, said Ben McCormack, editor of the restaurant guide “Square Meal,” even though it is in the financial district, “an area where lunch is usually the busiest time.”
In fact, the financial district — known as the City — is the site of several notable new restaurants, along with the still-hot nearby East End.
L’Anima (1 Snowden Street EC2; 44-207-422-7000; www.lanima.co.uk), which opened in June and whose minimal-chic look was created by the architect Claudio Silvestrin, is the latest project from Francesco Mazzei, responsible for St. Alban on Regents Street. The menu was inspired by the cuisine of Mr. Mazzei’s native Southern Italy, with main courses like fish stew with Sardinian fegola, and Sicilian rabbit stew. Dinner for two costs about £100, roughly $180 at $1.78 to the pound.
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