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Just in time for London Fashion Week, well-heeled jet-setters and London design lovers will have a new place to stop for an afternoon coffee, cocktail, or snack: Fashion icon (and decor maven) Ralph Lauren is putting his stamp on the British food scene with Ralph’s Coffee & Bar on Regent Street in the city’s fancy Mayfair district. This is Ralph’s third foray into the restaurant business, following openings in New York and Paris.
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Ralph’s takes its aesthetic cues from the classic, handsome style of the eponymous heritage brand, as well as from the atmosphere of the wildly successful Polo Bar in Manhattan. The 24-seat restaurant features several ties to equestrian culture, with hunter-green walls, banquettes and barstools in studded saddle leather. A mahogany bar lighted with dramatic brass pendants seats 12 more. “I’ve always imagined our stores as a place for customers to experience a world,” says the designer. “Our Ralph’s Coffee & Bar adds to that experience by offering a warm, friendly place to sit cozily with friends and family or to toast a special moment with one of our unique cocktails.”
The bar will offer a menu of light meals that combine Ralph Lauren’s American spirit to the London design lovers with European culinary traditions. Among the offerings: a deconstructed BLT salad, a tuna tartare plate, oysters, and butternut squash soup served via an Instagram-worthy pour into one of the branded, hunter-green-rimmed bowls. As far as cocktails go, options vary from the classic (old-fashioneds, Air Mails, and margaritas, to name a few) to those that reference the locale (the Regent Street Sour). Ralph’s coffee comes by way of cult-favorite La Colombe, ensuring that the caffeine is on a par with the food and ambience. All in all, it’s sure to be a stylish blend of the American and British befitting a discerning, globe-trotting clientele.
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Source: architecturaldigest.com