The kind of place where chefs like to eat, where the dishes appear simple and fluid and yet require authority to accomplish, Lyle’s has a short, changing New British-meets-Nordic menu, but it runs deep with inventiveness and delicacy: lemon sole with buttermilk and sea aster (a salt marsh plant), raw beef with mussels that’s actually chopped beef with shellfish emulsion, soured cream with chocolate as a dessert. Dishes are neatly creative, but flavors remain clean, even if the blank loft space in which they’re served is a bit factory-like. If things are busy, you can always sit at the bar.
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Lyle’s
Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High St., E1
Our Rating
Neighborhood
Shoreditch
Hours
Tues–Sat noon–2:15pm and 6–9pm. Reservations recommended
Transportation
Tube: Shoreditch High St. or Liverpool St.
Phone
020/3011-5911
Prices
Lunch: mains £15–£35; dinner: 6-course set dinner £95
Cuisine Type
British
Web site
Lyle’s
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