Lastra’s menu, prepared by an industrious team in an open kitchen, contains Mexican staples you might think you know: tostadas, tortillas, tacos but these are masterful, exalted expressions of familiar dishes, containing things like langoustine, sea buckthorn and smoked chilli, or grilled octopus with bone marrow, potato and seaweed macha. But Lastra, as anyone who has crossed paths with him will know, is the type to come out smiling, and with KOL easily outstripping the already high expectations he has plenty of reason to feel pleased. But then, well, Covid, and his hotly tipped restaurant had to stay closed until October. Was there ever a more cheerful chef than Santiago Lastra? The supremely talented Mexican, just into his thirties, who came up through the ranks at esteemed restaurants such as Mugaritz in San Sebastian and Hija de Sanchez in Copenhagen before helping Rene Redzepi launch NOMA Mexico in 2017, seemed destined for greatness when he finally launched his own venture, KOL in May 2020. Location: Marylebone (9 Seymour Street, W1H 7BA). ![]() Tick them all off to get a hearty taste of the city at its Cuisine: High-end Mexican Updated regularly, we want you to treat it like a culinary roadmap of the capital’s best new openings, local favourites and famed institutions. That’s why we pulled together a comprehensive list of the capital's must-try spots, spread across a broad price range (£-£££). That being said, picking a London restaurant can be an anxiety-inducing, time-consuming task (and that’s before you even get to securing a table). But restaurants have returned, and now is the time to appreciate them. It’s been reported that turnover in the UK hospitality industry fell by over £200 million a day over the course of 2020, and as a result there were almost 30,000 job losses in the sector. The impact of the pandemic has been immense, plunging most of our favourite restaurants into financial precarity while sadly seeing off many others. ![]() The London restaurant scene, once a gastronomic punchline, has never been more diverse or delicious – and it’s also never been more in need of your help.
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