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“Perhaps, post-pandemic, we all crave<br />
burgundy banquettes, crisp white napkins,<br />
and sparkling chandeliers.”<br />
FROM LEFT: ALEXANDRE ZHU, TRISTAN JUD, INNIS CASEY<br />
the stove. Expect marrowbone tartine, veal sweetbreads with grain<br />
mustard, classic desserts, and a great wine list.<br />
Over in the 11th arrondissement, by Oberkampf, the love affair<br />
between France and Japan continues at the small and stylish<br />
Magma (+33 01 4805 5690). Yamaguchi-born chef Ryuya<br />
Ono’s menu changes “suivant son humeur”, but his sublime<br />
technique is a constant, cooking classic French combos—gurnard<br />
with bouillabaisse sauce, rabbit pithivier with smoked eel—with<br />
precision and aplomb.<br />
Across the Channel, chef Alex Dilling, who earned his spurs at<br />
The Connaught and The Greenhouse, now has his name above<br />
the door at the Hotel Café Royal (hotelcaferoyal.com). His refined<br />
brand of haute cuisine marries French technique with luxury<br />
ingredients and a generous dash of originality: aged kaluga caviar<br />
with oysters and long pepper, for instance, or pâté de campagne<br />
with black truffle and jamón ibérico.<br />
It is London’s hottest ticket right now, but rivaling it will be<br />
The Audley (theaudleypublichouse.com), international gallerist<br />
Hauser & Wirth’s makeover of a towering old Mayfair pub. Hauser<br />
& Wirth—known as Artfarm, for hospitality purposes—have plenty<br />
of form (Roth Bar & Grill in Somerset; The Fife Arms in Braemar;<br />
Manuela in L.A.) and promise a classic ground-floor pub with bar<br />
snacks, and the first-floor Mount St. Restaurant, with ex-Gordon<br />
Ramsay chef Jamie Shears rattling the pans.<br />
Londoners love a little spice, and Cavita (cavitarestaurant.com),<br />
the newly opened, much-lauded Mexican joint in Marylebone,<br />
is happy to oblige. The chef/proprietor is the hugely talented<br />
Adriana Cavita; the space is a high-ceilinged subtropical oasis;<br />
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