The Lavery
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Name: The Lavery
Item: The Lavery
Author: Harden's editor

Restaurant in London

4 Cromwell Place, London, SW7 2JN, 020 8057 1801

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Opening in late March opposite the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, a restaurant, café and events space in the former home of artist Sir John Lavery. Ex-River Café and Rochelle Canteen chef Yohei Furuhashi is running the kitchen, with a focus on Mediterranean dishes reflecting the seasons.

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4 Cromwell Place, London, SW7 2JN

What the Newspaper Critics are saying

The Sunday Times

Giles Coren sampled two contrasting venues: a “humming East End boozer” and a “serene, high-ceilinged drawing room” in South Kensington, each of which lived up to its address.

The Prince Arthur was “loud” in both noise (music, laughter, screaming kids) and food – the latter including a big slab of “beef dripping toast piled with richly seasoned flatiron tartare, the chewy shoulder beef full of capers and cornichons and tabasco and all that stuff”, half a pound of rare and charred bavette with real chips and cress and a rhubarb ‘bombe Alaska’ that was “just the thing”.

The Lavery was “gorgeous.. just wow… full of sunlight and soft spring air and gleaming alabaster, mirrors and bas-reliefs”, with food (asparagus, gnocchi, stuffed rabbit leg and Middle White pork chop) whose “quiet” flavours were “precise and sexy”.

Giles declined to choose between the two, declaring: “I need both in my life”.

Giles Coren - 2025-04-13