The Baptist Grill review: sustenance for the soul

With its sacred architecture and classically inspired menu, this is a restaurant built on divine foundations

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Part of the pleasure of eating in new restaurants is tasting life on the culinary frontier. It’s fun to dip a fork into the melting pot, skewer a clutch of obscurely foraged ingredients and lay them out on whatever flotsam or jetsam has been pressed into service as crockery.

But all that restless invention can lead to a craving for something simpler. Or perhaps not simple, because The Baptist Grill, at L’Oscar hotel, in Holborn, depends on the investment of great expertise and effort - but it’s all in the service of the gloriously, comfortingly familiar.

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Holden Frith is The Week’s digital director. He also makes regular appearances on “The Week Unwrapped”, speaking about subjects as diverse as vaccine development and bionic bomb-sniffing locusts. He joined The Week in 2013, spending five years editing the magazine’s website. Before that, he was deputy digital editor at The Sunday Times. He has also been TheTimes.co.uk’s technology editor and the launch editor of Wired magazine’s UK website. Holden has worked in journalism for nearly two decades, having started his professional career while completing an English literature degree at Cambridge University. He followed that with a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago. A keen photographer, he also writes travel features whenever he gets the chance.