Design Centre Stories

A Rendezvous With the Classics

From eggs benedict in the morning to posh fish and chips for lunch, Tom’s Kitchen at the Tatler Restaurant is serving up the classics at Focus/17. The all-day-dining menu, devised by award-winning chef Tom Aikens and served by Absolute Taste, features tried-and-tested favourites from the menus of Aikens’ restaurant group, including rump steak, spatchcock chicken and roast fillet of sea bream, with a focus on seasonal British produce. This delicious food nourishes and restores during a busy show, and is complemented by chic cocktails and a well-curated wine list. The setting is focused around a convivial oval bar, with banquettes upholstered in aubergine-coloured ‘Tangiers’ leather by Whistler Leather, wallcoverings in ‘Hive’ from the Ligne collection by Arte (a woodgrain effect overlaid with a foiled hexagonal pattern) and ‘Fine Black’ and ‘Vesuivius’ paint by Zoffany, from Style Library.

Ground Floor, North Dome