Gridiron, Como Metropolitan Hotel, 19 Old Park Lane, London W1K 1LB (020 7447 1080). Gridiron at the blunt white box of a hotel that is the Metropolitan on London’s Park Lane has worked hard at the illusion. Photograph: Sophia Evans for the ObserverAnd now here I am at Gridiron, and it’s a case of so nearly but not quite. There’s also the punchy pricing which seems to be the words “What did you expect on Park Lane?” in numerals. Perhaps it’s simply what happens when restaurants open in ultra-cool hotels on Park Lane, while trying to pretend they’re not located in the hotel at all.

Source: The Guardian January 06, 2019 06:01 UTC