There’s a new high-end Italian place in Covent Garden, where the waiters wear DJs and the customers swoon
Margot, 45 Great Queen Street, London WC2B 5AA (020 3409 4777). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £140
You can smell the money at Margot: both the cash that has been spent on opening it and the cash that will now be spent inside. There are fat leather banquettes in the shade of deep grey favoured for suits by Gieves & Hawkes. There are details picked out in copper and bronze and a soothing downlit lustre that the tieless men lunching here must imagine lends them more than a hint of Tom Ford, their crisp white shirts unbuttoned just so.
A coil of butter-yellow tagliatelle, ready for slurp and bite and soothe, comes piled with a ragù
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