SOLA
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"Contemporary Californian dishes in downtown Soho."
Overview
SOLA brings the exciting contemporary cooking of America’s West Coast to Soho. A light-flooded corner site with white tablecloths, pale slatted-wood walls and greenery-lined windows add a no-frills informality to the space, while Victor Garvey’s Californian, Japanese-influenced cooking is served from an open kitchen via lunch, pre-theatre and tasting menus. Top-notch ingredients, precision and bold flavours characterise inventive dishes – langoustine is dramatically flambéed with whisky on a hot stone and matched with ginger dashi and a gyoza dumpling filled with chicken liver parfait and wild mushroom, then dry-aged duck comes alongside pickled celery, roasted salsify, silky parsley root purée, black garlic purée, Sansho pepper and venison jus.
Ratings & awards
3 Rosette Award for Culinary Excellence
Our inspector loves...
Creative Californian Cooking - Using only the very best ingredients
Intimate dining experience - A small restaurant with sculpture and greenery
Excellent wine list - The focus is the newest and best wines from California
Polished service - From the friendly and well-informed team
Central London location - Located in the heart of Soho
Features
- Food and Drink
- Cuisine style: Californian
About the area
London, the UK’s capital, is a metropolis of famous landmarks, unrivalled shopping, world-renowned arts venues, galleries and museums, dining and award-winning theatre. London is steeped in royal history, and visitors can watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, learn about the final days of Anne Boleyn at the Tower of London, or take a leisurely stroll around the capital’s Royal Parks
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