Spring

At Spring Restaurant, Skye Gyngell's team serve daily changing, seasonal menus in a restored 19th-century drawing room within Somerset House

Spring Restaurant | Skye Gyngell | London

http://www.springrestaurant.co.uk

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Spring, restaurant review: Skye Gyngell's smart new venue could ...

As comeback stories go, the return of Skye Gyngell to the London restaurant scene has enough juicy plot twists for a three-hanky biopic.

So when it was announced earlier this year that she'd be opening a new restaurant at Somerset House, there was jubilation among the restaurant-going equivalent of the chattering classes, thrilled by the prospect of eating her food without having to trek out to Zone 3.

Spring, Gyngell's extremely smart new restaurant, could hardly be more different from quirky Petersham, with the latter's earth floors and wobbly tables.

The look may be different, but the menu at Spring is recognisably in the Petersham tradition; including the prices which leave you slightly short of breath.

A crisp little rye wafer loaded with white and brown crabmeat delivers a blast of ozone and ocean; a dab of sour cream punctuated by the briny pop of salmon roe complicates without distracting from the crab.

Restaurant review: Spring, London - Telegraph

It had the tender, pale chewability of a pork chop with the slacker, richer grain of a steak, and an anchovy on top – the culinary equivalent of falling in love with someone and then finding they also own a power drill.

I’ve never seen anybody allow a pannacotta (£8) such lassitude as this, which only goes to underline my first impressions – a chef determined that taste should be all, and fuss nowhere.

It had basically been allowed to spread across the bowl so it was like a set-soup, with damson sorbet on top, and a lovely, buttery, spicy biscuit, like one you might find on a German Christmas tree, except a million times nicer, and not stale.

L’s hazelnut and pear tart (£8) was the more impressive to look at – a crust over the top of nuts, sugar and egg white, and pears peeking out.

The lunch menu (four courses for £45) offers the best value, and offers supremely tender salmon from the sous vide, with broccoli “five ways” Regional Indian dishes and generations-old family recipes are the mainstays at this chic, beautifully lit restaurant.

Spring, London

Spring, restaurant review: Skye Gyngell's smart new venue could ...

As comeback stories go, the return of Skye Gyngell to the London restaurant scene has enough juicy plot twists for a three-hanky biopic.

So when it was announced earlier this year that she'd be opening a new restaurant at Somerset House, there was jubilation among the restaurant-going equivalent of the chattering classes, thrilled by the prospect of eating her food without having to trek out to Zone 3.

Spring, Gyngell's extremely smart new restaurant, could hardly be more different from quirky Petersham, with the latter's earth floors and wobbly tables.

The look may be different, but the menu at Spring is recognisably in the Petersham tradition; including the prices which leave you slightly short of breath.

A crisp little rye wafer loaded with white and brown crabmeat delivers a blast of ozone and ocean; a dab of sour cream punctuated by the briny pop of salmon roe complicates without distracting from the crab.

Restaurant review: Spring, London - Telegraph

It had the tender, pale chewability of a pork chop with the slacker, richer grain of a steak, and an anchovy on top – the culinary equivalent of falling in love with someone and then finding they also own a power drill.

I’ve never seen anybody allow a pannacotta (£8) such lassitude as this, which only goes to underline my first impressions – a chef determined that taste should be all, and fuss nowhere.

It had basically been allowed to spread across the bowl so it was like a set-soup, with damson sorbet on top, and a lovely, buttery, spicy biscuit, like one you might find on a German Christmas tree, except a million times nicer, and not stale.

L’s hazelnut and pear tart (£8) was the more impressive to look at – a crust over the top of nuts, sugar and egg white, and pears peeking out.

The lunch menu (four courses for £45) offers the best value, and offers supremely tender salmon from the sous vide, with broccoli “five ways” Regional Indian dishes and generations-old family recipes are the mainstays at this chic, beautifully lit restaurant.

Spring, London WC2 – restaurant review | Marina O'Loughlin | Life ...

The gauzy drapes and beautiful light fittings, like bunches of softly glowing white currants; the velvet sofas the colour of a baby’s fingernail.

Somebody has invested a lot in chef Skye Gyngell – formerly a Michelin star winner at Petersham Nurseries – in an environment so far removed from her previous shack-and-garden-chairs outpost that it draws actual gasps from rubberneckers peering in.

One of Gyngell’s trademark dishes, scallops with creme fraiche and chilli jam, is heavenly, the scallops caramelised, the chillies smoky and resonant.

My Dover sole is a fine, taut fish, its exterior burnished and crisp, served with spinach, cannellini beans and three-cornered garlic (shyly hiding, this last).

Spring is beautiful, and Gyngell’s cooking exhilarating in its (mostly) perfectionist simplicity.