IN a town that is more often than not about the latest food trends, celebrating London’s enduring restaurants and cafes is no bad thing. One such one is Sweetings on Queen Victoria Street. Located in the City’s Square Mile, this is an old school restaurant. First opened by its namesake J.Sweetings in 1889, it has been in its current location for over 100 years. Specialising in seafood and oysters, it has a classic and enduring charm. Champagne awaits chilled in silver buckets, waiting staff gather in anticipation, and the white marble counters beam from decades of use. The lunch time crowd line the benches drapped in whites, ordering from a menu of dressed crab, prawn cocktail, west mersea oysters, smoked haddock and poached eggs, and chef’s fish pie. There are no reservations and it only opens for lunch. Sweetings has always been a family business: one that survived two world wars, financial crises and too many food trends to remember, to remain a firm and enduring favourite.
39 Queen Victoria Street, EC4N 45A Monday - Friday : 11.00 - 15.00
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February 2017
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