Londoners walking down Mayfair’s North Audley Street are likely well-used to seeing smart boards; this part of town is a carousel of restaurant renovations and new openings. Lately, one frontage in particular has been attracting attention: an outpost of Boston cult restaurant Saltie Girl, which opens next week on November 8.
As the name suggests, the opening deals with seafood, and is best known for oysters, lobster, caviar and tinned fish — with the latter apparently a particular speciality, given the Boston original presently offers 65 different tins, served with bread, butter and salt. Other dishes on the menu will include clam chowder — JFK’s favourite dish, it’s said — New England lobster roll, fried seabass, fried lobster and waffles, and the likes of turbot, monkfish, and Dover sole. Curiously, Richard Turner — the chef celebrated for the Meatopia festival, his Turner & George butchers, as well as his work with steak specialists Hawksmoor — is Saltie Girl’s consultant chef.
