8 London Restaurants Every Visitor Should Try - AFAR
"Opened in 2022, Mount St. is part eatery and part private art gallery, filled with eye-catching artist commissions, including a Palladiana mosaic floor in alternating marbles by Rashid Johnson and museum-quality paintings from the likes of Matisse and Warhol. Set in a red-brick building filled with bay and turret windows, the main dining space sits on the second floor above the elevated and photo-worthy English pub Audley Public House—a decidedly more casual spot where reservations are not required. On the floors above Mount St. Restaurant’s main dining room, multiple private dining spaces decorated in Scottish, Italian, and Swiss themes are fit for everything from intimate cocktail receptions to large dinner parties at a long, 26-seat table. There’s also a games room on the top floor that’s more naughty in atmosphere, where guests can have a debaucherous night of cocktails and playing poker, and where the theme of the artwork is more risqué in nature. King Charles and Camilla were early guests to the restaurant, and every meal in the serenely lit space is filled with food fit for a nobility, including a caviar omelet and quality sausages from Durslade farm in Dorset (a sister property of owner Artfarm) for breakfast. For lunch and dinner, dishes include oysters and caviar, a Stepney smoked salmon, and Pigeons in Pimlico (duck liver, bacon, red cabbage) and a mouthwatering West Country lamb chop and belly (hispi cabbage, Jersey Royal potatoes, mint jelly)." - Dan Koday
