Lutyens

Lutyens Restaurant Review:

Lutyens is named after the Edwardian British architect, Sir Edwin Lutyens, who designed what was the Reuters building in Fleet Street as well as the Cenotaph in Whitehall, domestic houses and grand public buildings all over the world. Now the indefatigable Sir Terence Conran has taken over the whole building to create a restaurant, bar and private dining. You get to the restaurant via a bar which buzzes from breakfast with pastries to late drinking with charcuterie. The restaurant itself is faintly industrial in feel and with all the impeccable hallmarks of a Conran establishment: open kitchen; impressively designed tableware; attentive, knowledgeable staff; good, reliable cooking. The menu is modern European, highly-seasonal food, with a subtle Nordic influence (courtesy of the Swedish chef) --- think salmon tartare, smoked venison, scallops with shiitake, monkfish to grilled Dover sole, and main meat courses of breast of lamb and rib of veal. The wine list has good vintages and non-greedy mark-ups. Set 3-course city supper menu including a glass of Champagne £32.50.