New London restaurant, bar, bakery and grocery shop Toklas has opened its doors. Housed in a brutalist building dating back to the 1970s, the new 70-cover restaurant on London\u2019s Surrey Street, off The Strand, is the brainchild of Frieze magazine and art fairs founders, Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover. The...
Restaurant, bar, bakery and grocery shop Toklas is now open just off The Strand in London, in a 1970s brutalist building
New London restaurant, bar, bakery and grocery shop Toklas has opened its doors. Housed in a brutalist building dating back to the 1970s, the new 70-cover restaurant on London’s Surrey Street, off The Strand, is the brainchild ofmagazine and art fairs founders, Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover. The restaurant, named after the writer Alice B Toklas, nods to the love of food she documented in her eponymous 1954 cookbook, with an elegant, mostly fish- and plant-based Mediterranean menu.
Design details are carefully considered throughout by Stafford Schmool, formerly of the Barbican Centre and the British Council. Vintage design accents, such as a reclaimed parquet floor, reclaimed iroko table and counter tops and Børge Mogensen chairs, make an elegant foil for the bespoke pendant LED lights and comfortable green leather banquettes.
‘It’s a simple, straightforward, modern aesthetic with good, natural materials and several vintage elements – Børge Mogensen ‘People’s Chair’, a teak parquet floor from a library in the north of England, and bespoke lights by Stafford Schmool based on a 1960s form but with updated LED technology,’ Sharp and Slotover say. ‘There is a sliding wall that makes the space very flexible.
Head chef Martyn Lyons nods to Italian, French and Spanish influences across a light menu featuring dishes such as halibut with girolles and coco beans; kingfish crudo with fennel and caper leaf; and broccoli with farro, goat’s curd and black garlic. Up to 100 diners can also be accommodated on a large terrace, with 50 more covers available in a chic bar. §Toklas is located at 1 Surrey Street, London, off The Strand.
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