Best Restaurants 08

by Fay Maschler

Having devised the menus that made Le Caprice, The Ivy, J Sheekey and Scott's such a desirable group, Mark Hix left after its sale to champion British produce and time-honoured ways of handling it. Brown Windsor Soup — and much else — came back to a grand hotel in THE ALBEMARLE at Brown's Hotel. Later in the year HIX OYSTER & CHOP HOUSE revived traditions worth reviving, created some admirable new ones and gave chefs and YBAs somewhere new to hang out and carouse in Smithfield.interior to show off proudly our indigenous cooking to French people pouring off Eurostar.