Chef's Essentials is the Livingetc series exploring your favorite chefs' go-to kitchen utensils and how they contribute to shaping their craft, so that you, too, can start collecting their treasured cookware — each piece uniting functionality and style — and hone your culinary art.
There is an unexpectedly familial energy to the bathing-in-sunshine, elegant dining room of Claro in St. James's, the London sister address to chef and restaurateur Ran Shmueli's original Mediterranean eatery in Tel Aviv, which he opened in 2014. And no, it's not just the essentially striking mid-century modern furniture that, placed atop the black and white, checkered floor of this listed, former bank building, imbues the space with a sense of home.
