St Leonards restaurant review: provocatively inventive dining

Chefs Andrew Clarke and Jackson Boxer are cooking up a wood-fired storm in Shoreditch

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St Leonards chefs Andrew Clarke and Jackson Boxer have form – they were partners at Brunswick House, a Georgian mansion marooned on a Vauxhall traffic island with the funkiest dining room in London. It shares the space with an architectural salvage company, so the seats might be from a nearby distressed Church and perhaps that shadow on your soup is from a Sopwith Camel propeller suspended from the ceiling.

St Leonards is a far more ordered experience, in a Shoreditch side street which was once home to Victorian furniture stores but now attracts hip ad agencies and the like. It is a fairly neutral version of warehouse chic, with industrial lighting dangling from the ceiling and lots of beams and utilitarian tables and chairs with a spacious horseshoe shaped bar on the side. There is nothing predictable about the food though, which is provocatively inventive.

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