Quo Vadis
Soho
Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room, the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026
Henrietta Street's modern British room from the Kitty Fisher's team, clubby, candle-lit, opera-night reliable.
Cora Pearl opened on Henrietta Street in 2018 from Tom Mullion, Tim Steel and Oliver Milburn, the same group behind Mayfair's Kitty Fisher's, and runs in the same modern British register: Welsh lamb, native lobster, ham and cheese toasties at the bar, the small-room candle-lit club tempo. The crowd here uses it as the dinner before the Royal Opera House or the Wyndham's, two minutes' walk to either. Named after the nineteenth-century courtesan, the room reads more parlour than restaurant, banquettes, low light, the kind of menu where the toastie and the soufflé are both correct orders.
Book the back banquette for two; bar seats at the front take limited walk-ins from 17:30. The ham, egg and chips and the cheese toastie are the through-line orders that carried the room from opening; the soufflé is the dessert. Two minutes' walk to the Royal Opera House, pre-curtain seating from 17:30, post-curtain from 22:00.
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