Laduree – French toast & Chantilly cream
Buttery, eggy french toast under a cloud of Chantilly cream from Laduree, Covent Garden...
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Buttery, eggy french toast under a cloud of Chantilly cream from Laduree, Covent Garden...
A ruby red ‘Cocktail Charlie’, bubbling away under a cloud of smoking dry ice in a teapot, made up of a mixture of whisky, cherry marnier, chocolate bitters and champagne.
Confit leeks with 36-month aged Comté is a proper little number, insistently salty and impossible not to ravage, balanced with risotto and buttery strands of spring-green leek.
Holborn Dining Room provides the perfect foil for head chef Calum Franklin and owner Des McDonald, executive of the Caprice Group, to showcase British favourites.
Lanes of London, previously criticised for its ‘concept’ heavy menu, ticks all the right boxes for afternoon tea with fresh, hot scones, cakes and sandwiches.
The soaring atriums are furnished in a clean biscuit-brown wood and with cosseting fireplaces and armchairs, and a pianist adds to the easy atmosphere.