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Lyle's
• Modern British• Shoreditch
About the restaurant
Located at the historic Tea Building in Shoreditch, Lyle’s is a post-industrial gem, with high ceilings, exposed vents and minimal wooden tables that ensure an atmosphere that’s cool but unpretentious.
Food is modern British with a touch of New Nordic, with lots of foraged ingredients making their way into dishes alongside simple and flavourful broths and unfussy preparations of meat, fish and vegetables. The tasting menu at £79 is the only one available, with dishes changing almost daily.
Co-founders James Lowe and John Ogier met while working at St John Bread & Wine in Shoreditch. Lowe had previously run pop-ups under the name The Young Turks, alongside Isaac McHale and Jonny Greeno, and has since opened Flor, a smaller wine bar in Borough Market, with Ogier.
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Critic reviews
The Infatuation
Lyle’s is a creative British restaurant that has been called literally one of the best restaurants in the world.
The Guardian
Its white elegance is so much like St John I don't know why Lowe and front-of-house partner John Ogier didn't cut to the chase and call it St John the Baby. The food, too, is very referential – from calling weeny cubes of fudgy, fat-studded black pudding "blood cake", to the appearance of gull's eggs.
Standard
Along with star ratings restaurant reviews might usefully indicate whether the place in question is better for lunch or dinner. In my judgement, Lyle’s comes with a big L for lunch.
The Telegraph
What am I doing in Shoreditch? I haven’t the slightest idea.
The Independent
Lyle's is in the Tea Building, that unlovely warehouse on the corner of Shoreditch High Street and Bethnal Green Road, where you can find members-only Shoreditch House and its groovy offspring, Pizza East. Like the rest of the Building, Lyle's has a street frontage of metal window frames, and looks like a combination of light-industrial plant and prison.
Time Out
A modern British small-plates restaurant in an iconic Shoreditch setting
The Nudge
Lacking the patience to put this “delayed gratification” theory to the test, however, we’ve invented a method for experiencing similar levels of gratification without having to delay anything.
- Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High St
- E1 6JJ
- London
- +44 20 3011 5911
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