Lorne review: generosity on a plate

Victoria's latest restaurant opening brings fine food and wine to an unloved part of London

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Part transit hub, part building site, Victoria is an odd part of London at the best of times and odder still on the evening of the Westminster terror attack. What's disconcerting, though, is how unruffled it is by its proximity to the scene of the crime.

"We thought we might get a lot of cancellations," says the maitre d' at Lorne, on Wilton Street, "but everyone's turned up."

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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.