What is it about Casa Cruz? From the outside it looks like any other high-end Notting Hill bistro, save for a gleaming copper door which sets it apart but it is, in the end, just a door. Such chicness is not hard to find in W11. Nor is good food these days, though whether that can be found at Casa Cruz is up for debate. Certainly it must be better than in 2015, when the Standard’s then long-serving food critic Fay Maschler bestowed the place just two stars out of five. “This could be one of the first high-end venues run by an AI kitchen operative,” Maschler observed.
No matter: Casa Cruz remains the current choice of celebrities. Proper ones, too, and at bamboozling scale. On Tuesday night, Taylor Swift pooled together an A-list crowd: Cara Delavigne, Kate Moss, Stella McCartney, Andrew Scott, Phoebe Waller Bridge, Haim sisters Este and Danielle, music legend Chrissie Hynde and writer Lena Dunham. No word on what they ate, or what time they left, but I’m told on good authority that Sting went too, even if he is missing from the showbiz snaps being bandied around.
