City AM

At the Oyster Bar, theatregoers can grab a Fine de Claire or three and a glass of Champagne and stroll next door for curtain up.
 

Or you can spend four hours there, as we did on Saturday, sipping fizz from saucers, trying a few wines by the glass as you follow your tastebuds and your nose (all wines are available by the glass and carafe which is pretty rare). Time rushes into a vortex of pleasure and animation in the dusky light of the bar.

Neither my guest nor I were big oyster lovers...but we were clearly in very safe hands. Guided by the unobtrusively attentive man behind the bar (people like him are the key to the restaurant's raging popularity) we went for some Irish Strangford Lough rocks and some Fines de Claire. Some Gruner Veltliner, forcibly recommended, went well...