52 North Bar & Kitchen | Soho

On the eve of London Fashion Week, and in the year of both the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics, new Soho resident 52 North Bar & Kitchen aims to celebrate all three in a no-holds-barred tribute to the greatness of Great Britain. 

But with a contemporary twist.

The Fashion Week reference above comes - more than a little tenuously - via a predominant feature of 52 North Bar & Kitchen’s interior: a distinctive runway of lights that lead from the entrance to the bar.  

In addition to the lights, the décor within the two-floored, open plan space combines exposed brickwork with long wooden tables and chairs; rustic, wooden floors; chesterfields for lounging, and stacks of logs that bookend open fireplaces.

52 North Bar & Kitchen’s celebration of the best of British – a timely tribute, given the high odds of you waving a Union Jack at some point this year – comes courtesy of both its name (52° North being the circle of latitude that begins in Hertfordshire) and the menus: British cuisine, British ingredients, and British booze.

Food options include: Scotch woodcock; Arbroath smokie fishcakes; Gloucester old spot pork chop with wild English garlic mash; and Knickerbocker Glory to finish.

To drink: wines from a vineyard in Kent; organic cider from Herefordshire and oak-aged beer from Edinburgh’s Innis & Gunn.

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