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...I was 29 when I opened L’Escargot a few hundred yards south of Ampéli in Greek Street in 1981....
...The Bar Luce, with its bon-bon-pink terrazzo floor, wood panelling, vintage pinball machines, trompe-l’oeil wallpaper, globe lights and vinyl upholstered booths, is a nostalgic and compelling blend of Americana...
...Works by other regular guests include ceramics by Georges Braque (by the pool) and Fernand Léger (“La jeune fille et l’oiseau”, on the terrace)....
...Yet academic Rebecca L Spang has dismissed the story as an urban myth....
...Chris Corbin and Jeremy King, who now oversee The Wolseley, focused on the same principles when they opened Le Caprice in the same year....
...In fact, many of the best restaurateurs in London – among them Chris Corbin and Jeremy King (originally of The Ivy and now of The Wolseley fame); Nigel Platts-Martin (the eminence behind Chez Bruce and the...
...The first was L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon, which opened impressively in September and where standards – other than on the reservation line – only seem to have improved....
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