Cora Pearl

Cora Pearl opened on Henrietta Street in 2018 from Tom Mullion, Tim Steel and Oliver Milburn — the same group behind Mayfair's Kitty Fisher's — and runs in the same modern British register: Welsh lamb, native lobster, ham and cheese toasties at the bar, the small-room candle-lit club tempo. The crowd here uses it as the dinner before the Royal Opera House or the Wyndham's, two minutes' walk to either. Named after the nineteenth-century courtesan, the room reads more parlour than restaurant — banquettes, low light, the kind of menu where the toastie and the soufflé are both correct orders.