Notting Hill is clearly where it’s at right now – Caia and Zephyr have just opened, Straker’s and Akub are still to come – and now British bistro Dorian is heading for the neighbourhood with a promise that it’s going to be ‘an anti-Notting Hill restaurant’. Ok then. The team, which includes Chris D’Sylva of Notting Hill Fish + Meat Shop and Supermarket of Dreams, Head Chef Max Coen (ex-Kitchen Table and Ikoyi), Bar Manager Ale Villa (ex-Core by Clare Smyth), and Ben Whitfield (ex-Brasserie Zedel), certainly has plenty of pedigree and with banquettes, marble tables, wood panelling, brass lighting, smoked mirrors and an oxidised copper-coloured bar, it sounds like Dorian will certainly look the part.
Max Coen will be making use of the best seasonal British produce, cooking up the likes of potato rösti with crab or girolles & Cornish Yarg; mussels with cucumber & shiso; grilled beetroots & autumn squash; wild sea bass with sauce vierge; grill plates including John Dory, côte de boeuf, sirloin and pork chop; peach custard tar; and strawberries & creme fraîche. Ale Villa’s drinks list sounds just as promising, with fig leaf negronis on the cocktail list and a wine list curated with Keeling Andrew & Co. If that’s anti-Notting Hill then consider us intrigued.
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Opens late October 2022
105-107 Talbot Road, London W11 2AT
@dorian.nottinghill