A mirror is to be held up at London’s oldest department store next month: for the first time in Fortnum & Mason’s 317-year history, it will welcome an outside restaurant, as east London institution St. John pitches up in a whole new postcode.
From February 6 till the 25th, and while the self-described Smithfield “mothership” closes for a refit, St. John will relocate to Piccadilly, where in a room overlooking the busy streets below, Welsh rarebits, suet-crusted pies and velvet madeleines will find safe harbour.
