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sketch in Mayfair, London is the destination for food, drinks, art and music, comprising an artist conceived gastro-brasserie restaurant, David Shrigley's Gallery serving afternoon tea and dinner, and Pierre Gagnaire's two Michelin Starred Lecture Room and Library open for lunch and dinner. There are cocktail bars too, the Glade and the Parlour.

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Restaurant Review: The Gallery at Sketch London | Elite Traveler

Here, the two Michelin starred cuisine of Gagnaire takes center stage in a series of eclectic dining rooms, alongside fine wines and a series of inventive cocktails.

The meltingly soft red tuna in this dish comes on a bed of creamy cauliflower puree, with impeccable cubes of crisp apple, silky tofu, horseradish and sweet mango, finished with a flourish of watercress.

The sommelier, who exhibits great knowledge of the restaurant’s wine and where it comes from, pairs this signature dish with a crisp Cloudy Bay sauvignon blanc, alongside the appetizer that comes most highly recommended: the pink burrata with stilton, Thai grapefruit, pear and Datterini tomatoes in which the semi-soft Italian cheese is laid on top of sweet tomatoes and sour blue cheese, with a Campari and grapefruit sauce.

The Salpicon of succulent hand-dived Orkney Island scallops and juicy Cornish mussels then comes with Shimeji mushrooms that have soaked up the dish’s rich buttery sauce, with red and orange Nasturtium scattered across the top.

The crisp Arlette pastry on the side is ideal for scooping up the rich fruit, chocolate sauce, cool mousse and chocolate sorbet, along with the light chocolate meringue that’s placed on top.

Lecture Room and Library at Sketch9, Conduit Street, London W1 ...

This year's winner, Philip Turton, placed his bid as a surprise birthday gift for his wife, Alison, and was keen to find a dinner destination with the suitable wow factor.

factor – with starters from £35 to £45, and main courses from £37 to £55, it is surely Britain's most expensive restaurant.

(No, of course I didn't just suggest it as a way of getting to eat at Britain's most expensive restaurant...) In the decade since I reviewed The Gallery, the less formal of Sketch's two restaurants, I've only visited this mad Mayfair pleasure-dome a few times.

The 'one weird thing' rule applied to other dishes; the satire-defying peeled grapes stuffed with olives and anchovies that came with Alison's saddle of lamb, along with a little tartlet of lamb's sweetbreads.

Surrounded by the multiple dishes that made up each course, we found ourselves uncertain whether to mix and match, or doggedly work our way around, as in a gastronomic game of clock patience.

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Romain Chapel has worked in some very serious kitchens, including stints with Olivier Roellinger at Maisons de Bricourt and Marc Haeberlin at Auberge de l’Ill, returning in 2010 to his father’s restaurant, and becoming head chef before it closed in February 2012.

A plate of amuse-bouches comprised: goat cheese parfait and beetroot powder, spinach financier with Stilton cream, sea bream sashimi with white melon, cumin crackers with parsnip cream, and little Parmesan nibbles, and a bowl of sauerkraut foam.

A dish called “sea garden” (£42) consisted of a main plate of excellent langoustines, carefully cooked and of evidently high quality.

The main question to me with this complex plate of food (plates really) is whether the assorted extra elements really added anything to the core of the dish, the langoustines.

Vanilla soufflé (£13) was the dish of the day, the soufflé immaculately cooked with excellent texture and plenty of high quality vanilla flavour coming through (18/20).

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Restaurant Review: The Gallery at Sketch London | Elite Traveler

Here, the two Michelin starred cuisine of Gagnaire takes center stage in a series of eclectic dining rooms, alongside fine wines and a series of inventive cocktails.

The meltingly soft red tuna in this dish comes on a bed of creamy cauliflower puree, with impeccable cubes of crisp apple, silky tofu, horseradish and sweet mango, finished with a flourish of watercress.

The sommelier, who exhibits great knowledge of the restaurant’s wine and where it comes from, pairs this signature dish with a crisp Cloudy Bay sauvignon blanc, alongside the appetizer that comes most highly recommended: the pink burrata with stilton, Thai grapefruit, pear and Datterini tomatoes in which the semi-soft Italian cheese is laid on top of sweet tomatoes and sour blue cheese, with a Campari and grapefruit sauce.

The Salpicon of succulent hand-dived Orkney Island scallops and juicy Cornish mussels then comes with Shimeji mushrooms that have soaked up the dish’s rich buttery sauce, with red and orange Nasturtium scattered across the top.

The crisp Arlette pastry on the side is ideal for scooping up the rich fruit, chocolate sauce, cool mousse and chocolate sorbet, along with the light chocolate meringue that’s placed on top.

Restaurant review of the Gallery at Sketch in Mayfair

Advertisement - Continue Reading Below The buzzHoused in an 18th-century townhouse on Mayfair's Conduit Street, Sketch is a London dining emporium like no other, conceived by the Momo restaurateur Mourad Mazouz and made up of a number of uniquely decorated spaces.

Shirgley has also created a 22-piece tableware set featuring drawings and doodles; the words 'an empty dish' hide underneath your food, only to be revealed when you clean your plate.

Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Menu highlightsAsk the helpful waiters – who are dressed smartly in uniforms by the late Richard Nicoll – to give you their recommendations, because Gagnaire's extensive menu of modern European creations is filled with so many tempting dishes that it was hard to decide.

Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Advertisement - Continue Reading Below For the main course, we opted to share the beef between two, which was huge and came with a mountain of deliciously crispy onion rings.

Willy Wonka would certainly be happy with the dessert selection, which ranges from inverted profiteroles (choux filled with dark chocolate ganache, chocolate veil, crème anglaise with black sesame seeds and caramelised pear) to green-matcha-tea meringues, coconut-milk mousseline and dragon fruit.Perfect for…Enjoying one of the most imaginative menus in London, either as an indulgent date night or a catch-up with foodie friends, in wonderfully thought-provoking surrounds.

Lecture Room and Library at Sketch9, Conduit Street, London W1 ...

This year's winner, Philip Turton, placed his bid as a surprise birthday gift for his wife, Alison, and was keen to find a dinner destination with the suitable wow factor.

factor – with starters from £35 to £45, and main courses from £37 to £55, it is surely Britain's most expensive restaurant.

(No, of course I didn't just suggest it as a way of getting to eat at Britain's most expensive restaurant...) In the decade since I reviewed The Gallery, the less formal of Sketch's two restaurants, I've only visited this mad Mayfair pleasure-dome a few times.

The 'one weird thing' rule applied to other dishes; the satire-defying peeled grapes stuffed with olives and anchovies that came with Alison's saddle of lamb, along with a little tartlet of lamb's sweetbreads.

Surrounded by the multiple dishes that made up each course, we found ourselves uncertain whether to mix and match, or doggedly work our way around, as in a gastronomic game of clock patience.

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Place settings are designed by Shrigley, too, including a cruet set that looks like shrunken Moomins’ Hattifatteners announcing “dust”, “dirt” and “nothing”.

On the evidence of this lysergic dish – blobs and pools of strident oddness, especially the mozzarella-topped gelée that tastes like the stuff left at the bottom of olive tins topped with organic foaming facewash – Shrigley’s better off sticking to the art.

The actual fish and chips arrive separately in a pail: breaded pollock like a midweek kids’ tea and fried abstracts of swirly potato tendril.

This might be the most absurd restaurant in the UK, a Barbie-on-MDMA fantasy serving unintelligible food at prices to make your eyes water into matching pinkness.

• David Shrigley at Sketch The Gallery, 9 Conduit Street, London W1, 020-7659 4500.