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.