It is more than a quarter of a century since Algerian-born restaurateur Mourad Mazouz set eyes on the then dilapidated Georgian Mayfair townhouse on Conduit Street that was to become one of London’s most talked-about — and Instagrammed — venues. Sketch is now an institution, one of only six London restaurants to hold the supreme honour in gastronomy, three Michelin stars, for the Lecture Room and Library, and home of the most famous toilets in the West End, the celebrated white egg-shaped space pods created by French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance.
Sketch’s success and longevity is being celebrated by the publication of a £75 doorstopper of an eponymous book, which chronicles the ups and downs of an avant garde destination now known as much for its often changing art as its food.
