Villandry
PRICE:
Frommer's Highly Recommended
ADDRESS: 170 Great Portland St., W1
CITY: London
COUNTRY: England
POSTCODE: W1W 5QB
PHONE 1: 020/7631-3131
Food lovers and gourmands flock to this food store, delicatessen, and restaurant, where racks of the finest meats, cheeses, and produce in the world are displayed and changed virtually every hour. The best of the merchandise is whimsically transformed into the restaurant's menu choices. The setting is an oversize Edwardian-style storefront north of Oxford Circus. The inside is a kind of minimalist temple dedicated to the glories of fresh produce and esoteric foodstuffs. Ingredients here change so frequently that the menu is rewritten twice a day -- during our latest visit, it proposed such perfectly crafted dishes as breast of duck with fresh spinach and a gratin of baby onions; and pan-fried turbot with deep-fried celery, artichoke hearts, and hollandaise sauce.
Copyright: Excerpted from
Frommer's London 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

London
, England