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Ultimate guide to a bumper Easter
Evening Standard
|March 28, 2024
From big nights out to the best Easter menus and a free indoor egg hunt perfect for a rainy day, Jo Taylor, Mike Daw and Josh Barrie on how to make the most of the bank holiday weekend
Eggcellent Easter menus
The George, Fitzrovia
Feast on a whole roast lamb shoulder served with minted new potatoes, lamb fat carrots, a pea, mint and Ticklemore salad, black garlic and yoghurt sauce and plenty of gravy, followed by a hot cross bun bread pudding drizzled in warming Earl Grey custard.
• £200, to serve five or six. Pre-order today for bookings on Sunday and Monday, 55 Great Portland Street, W1W 7LQ , thegeorge.london
Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester
This three Michelin star, seven-course tasting menu experience will be bolstered by a serving of your choice of milk-fed lamb saddle, shoulder or leg, carved table-side and served with green peas and mint.
• £315 per person, Friday and Saturday (pre-order your choice of lamb today),53 Park Lane, W1K 1QA, alainducasse-dorchester.com
Mount Street Restaurant
Indulge in Durslade farm lamb pie for two, asparagus served with dippy eggs or wild garlic soup with breaded goats cheese while admiring works by Lucian Freud and Andy Warhol.
• From £20, Saturday-Monday, 41-43 Mount Street, W1K 2RX, mountstrestaurant.com
Mauro Colagreco, Raffles
A refined four-course menu beginning with cauliflower served with a confit egg yolk and a fenugreek emulsion; the main is delicately cooked turbot with a leek bearnaise and cockle ragout.
• £125 per person, Friday and Saturday, 57 Whitehall, SW1A 2BX, raffles.com
This story is from the March 28, 2024 edition of Evening Standard.
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