Ikoyi
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"Innovative, bold, tasting-sized West African influenced, spiced-based cuisine."
Overview
Ikoyi is an award-winning restaurant at the corner of 180 Strand and Surrey Street in London, with a focus on minimalist interiors designed by Danish architect, David Thulstrup, and spice-based cuisine built around British micro-seasonality. From the open kitchen, Chef Patron Jeremy Chan presents a menu filled with vegetables slowly grown for flavour, sustainable line-caught fish, and aged native beef. The blind tasting menu might include aged beef, roasted rose & orange mint, turbot, crab salad & sun gold tonnato and cherry & Tahitian vanilla. The new wine list is clean and minimalistic, including old vintages of Krug, natural wine grown on Mount Etna, and vintages from cult producers.
Ratings & awards
3 Rosette Award for Culinary Excellence
AA Notable Wine List
Our inspector loves...
Spice-based cuisine - Chef-patron Jeremy Chan’s unique translation of West African cuisine
Blind tasting menus - There’s no menu, rather staff announce dishes as they are delivered.
Lunch offering - A reduced-course lunch menu (Thursdays to Saturdays) offers an Ikoyi introduction.
Relaxed destination vibe - Clean-lined modernity and an unpretentious, professional approach add to the hot-ti.
Convenient West End location - Just two minutes’ stroll from Piccadilly Circus tube in the St James’s Mar.
Features
- Food and Drink
- Cuisine style: Modern West African
About the area
London, the UK’s capital, is a metropolis of famous landmarks, unrivalled shopping, world-renowned arts venues, galleries and museums, dining and award-winning theatre. London is steeped in royal history, and visitors can watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, learn about the final days of Anne Boleyn at the Tower of London, or take a leisurely stroll around the capital’s Royal Parks
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