Embrace the drizzle. Grab onto the grey. Summer has gone and all we can do is retreat indoors until spring.
Thankfully, there are lots of lovely places to do just that, including new restaurants from two of London’s most talented, Michelin-star boasting chefs; Santiago Lastra of Kol and Jason Atherton of Berners Tavern . Sit down, order something cosy while the evenings draw ever-closer in. You love it really.
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The masterful Mexican restaurant Fonda , St James’s Santiago Lastra doesn’t mess about. The co-owner and chef-patron of Marylebone’s Kol – regularly voted one of the best restaurants in the world – is opening up a new Mexican joint inspired by traditional family-owned ‘fondas’. The focus will be on regional flavours, informal and market-style cookery.
Bring on the Baja tacos with cucumber, pistachio and mint sauce, chipotle and sourdough and tostada with baked beetroot, seaweed oil, marigold and elderflower vinegar. But most of all, we’re excited by the dedicated paloma section on the cocktail list. It opens October 3.
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