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Gilda Bruno

This New Mediterranean Restaurant in London Takes 2025's Coolest Design Finish to Notting Hill's Waterside (With a Crafty Twist)

A brutalist restaurant with exposed cement walls, silver ventilation pipes, wooden furniture, and chrome-clad decor is ready for lunch service and brought to life by light.

If chrome is all you're seeing on Instagram, Pinterest, and TikTok, as well as in real life, just know it's not the algorithm playing tricks on you. Since the timeless, sheeny finish has been named the trendiest, most influential surface of the year, it has been springing up anywhere within the interior design space, whether incorporated into the home in the form of paperback accessories and collectibles with a futuristic edge or used as a cinematic trick to infuse character into entire walls.

Unsurprisingly, the metallic look is quickly gaining traction inside some of the best London restaurants, too, finding one of its latest and most expressive manifestations in Canal, a recent opening by the HAM Restaurants group.

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