From Belgravia to Ladbroke Grove

Saturday, August 31st , 2024

Cornus is the best opening in London so far in 2024, a sister to Medlar and with a talented head chef. The menu is unusually appealing and the ingredient quality is exceptional, with suppliers better than most of London’s multi-starred restaurants. Add a kindly priced, thoughtful wine list and good service and you have a terrific all-round restaurant.

The Pelican in Notting Hill is a gastropub in Ladbroke Grove, with a decent-looking menu that sadly had a number of issues in terms of the dishes that we tried. A guinea fowl and pea dish was good but a dried cube of lemon cake was a dismal dessert, and greasy monkfish scampi did not help, all at a very high price.