From Museums to Towers

Saturday, May 24th , 2025

The Lavery in South Kensington is an Italian restaurant that has had positive media reports and delivered a decent though hardly inspiring meal when I tried it. Rabbit pappardelle was pleasant, as was a guinea fowl dish, but it was all rather harmless and unmemorable. It is hard work finding good Italian food in London these days.  

That is not something that can be said of High, the latest Gordon Ramsay restaurant, perched at the top of a tall tower in The City. This may be the first restaurant to be named after the bill you get at the end, because at £250 for the menu plus an absurdly marked-up wine list, you can be sure of an expensive evening. Savoury dishes were nice enough, and mostly around one-star level, but desserts were poor and petit fours were worse. Maybe you just need to be high to enjoy it.