Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu, the last romantic room in old Soho
Andrew Edmunds bought the Lexington Street wine bar that had gone bust next to his print shop in 1986 and turned it into a candlelit two-floor restaurant inside an 18th-century Soho townhouse. The menu is rewritten daily on paper and blackboard; the wine list is the room's signal, two-thirds Old World, plenty with age, marked up on a low fixed rate that makes it one of the most generous lists in London. Mr Edmunds died in 2022 at 79; his widow Bryony pledged to keep the room running, and a structural refurbishment closed it briefly in summer 2024 before it reopened at the end of August unchanged. The dining room visiting friends remember a London evening for.
Book a basement table for the evening, quieter than the ground floor and the candlelight reads correctly. Come for the wine list; let the sommelier point you toward an aged claret on the low-mark-up shelves. The room does not take parties over six.
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