London’s Covent Backyard makes the right cosmopolitan backdrop for brand spanking new British-French bistro, Henri

Following its collaboration at Cowley Manor, a countryside resort within the coronary heart of the Cotswolds, international hospitality model Experimental Group has as soon as once more teamed up with British chef Jackson Boxer and French designer Dorothée Meilichzon to deliver Henri to life, a Parisian-inspired restaurant on the bottom flooring of Lodge Henrietta in London’s Covent Backyard.

Henri Restaurant

Briefed to mix parts of each conventional British pubs and Parisian brasseries, additionally mirrored in Boxer’s menu, Meilichzon used textures so as to add depth, with shiny velvet banquettes, picket panelling, basic Artwork Nouveau Thonet chairs and frosted home windows. At first look, Henri may appear conventional – assume floor-long desk skirtings and melting bistro candles – but it’s in touches such because the linen tapestries gracing the ceilings or the wall’s distracting artworks that preserve the house ‘modern and enjoyable’, as described by Meilichzon herself.

Meilichzon provides: ‘We needed to create a cohesive eating room that’s each intimate and glamorous, the place the house is bookended with the open kitchen and bar.’ The result’s a restaurant that’s transportative however in contact with its environment. A palette of darkish inexperienced hues, gentle blues and deep Bordeaux reds are revealed via Botanical shapes woven all through the restaurant that nod to the common-or-garden beginnings of Covent Backyard as a fruit and vegetable market.

Staying true to a conventional bistro format, tables at Henri are so shut collectively that you just could be influenced by what the company on the subsequent desk are ordering. Boxer, identified for London eating places resembling Brunswick Home, Orasay and Jackson Boxer on the Nook, has designed an expansive all-day menu that guarantees ‘one thing for each temper.’ French-inspired dishes function the likes of a mighty Swaledale bavette, cooked with XO Cognac and wild peppercorns. Whereas for the extra adventurous, the grilled snails with inexperienced garlic and veal rice make an ideal starter.

The sun-drenched outdoors terrace will transport you again to the hustle and bustle of central London – in different phrases, the right post-dinner spot to style the artistic record of cocktails, every named after a French icon. In any case, what might go fallacious with a regal Marie Antoinette whisky-infused concoction?

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Henri is positioned at 14, 15 Henrietta St, London WC2E 8QH, henricoventgarden.com