Clive Watson – of Village London – will open his first solo venture; an informal take on a grand European brasserie which encourages ‘coffee drinkers and laptop users’ (read aspiring writers) in February. Blixen features a ground floor dining room with workspace and plenty of plug sockets, an open kitchen and garden, plus a lower ground floor cocktail bar and private dining room.

Located in an old bank just off Spitalfields Market, the all-day restaurant’s interior sounds rather Wolseley-inspired with terrazzo-tiled floors, mid-century pieces of furniture, brass fittings, a long walnut bar and leather banquettes.

Blixen’s menu offers breakfast and brunch dishes like toasted banana bread with whipped butter; almond milk porridge and blueberry pancakes with cinnamon mascarpone and cumquat. Also on the menu: salads, soups and sandwiches, as well as juices, cocktails, smoothies and coffee. For dinner there’s crumbed ox tongue salad, with celeriac remoulade & mâché; monkfish tail, cauliflower, salsify, lardons & mussel broth; and rhubarb meringue roulade with pistachio ice cream.

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