It’s been nearly ten years since the last J Sheekey entry – though not the last visit. Yes, it was a post-theatre visit but this time it was post matinee – that’s old age for you – dinner and in bed by 10. A freezing cold walk from our hotel next to the British Museum. The inevitable person begging, and others sleeping rough on the pavement. We know it’s a near impossible problem to solve, but surely we can try – Rishi? Are you listening for goodness sake? At least we didn’t see young mothers with babies bedding down in doorways, as we did in Paris. Correction – we saw an adult and child sleeping in a doorway on Long Acre. How can it still be happening?
So a full house at J Sheekey for event 1.3, as with all other places we went to. Mid January and the country on its knees after more that thirteen years of Tory misrule. Lets hope the other lot are better if/when they get in, and yet all the smart places rammed.
Still, stunning meal. Twice baked soufflé or shellfish bisque, two Monkfish and Prawn Masalas, and passion fruit sorbet or honeycomb ice cream with chocolate sauce. Some glasses of Chablis and camomile tea to finish off. All simply splendid. Good as ever. Every bit as good as we remember from the first time so many, many years ago. A time before we knew…(that’s enough…Ed).
PS Chris Corbin and Jeremy King had their latest venture [The Wolseley etc] taken away from them, so Jeremy is starting yet again. This time…
What makes a restaurant buzz? At Le Caprice, which is about to be relaunched by Jeremy King, the man who propelled it to prominence in the Eighties, it is the bar. More specifically, it is the long mirror behind the bar. “The essence of Caprice was that bar,” King, 69, says. “If the bar was not full, not only did the restaurant not sing, it didn’t make money. And if you were sitting at the bar and had your back to the room the mirrors were essential, because if the Princess of Wales walked in, you could watch her going through the restaurant to her table. You could see what was going on, feel connected.”
So about to be relaunched as The Arlington – will the name catch on?
sleep | eat | enjoy 