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Dior pop-up cafe launches at Harrods

dior cafe harrods[Updated 30/3/13 with gallery and report from weekend lunch at the cafe]

So chic! Harrods, which for ages was a pretty boring place to eat and drink in, has more recently become much more clued up about how to entice Londoners through its doors.

Their latest innovation is a Dior pop-up cafe which launches in store from Saturday 16th March. Apparently the dishes on the Dior Café menu have taken inspiration from Monsieur Dior’s recipe book, La Cuisine Cousu-Main, which was published in 1972.

On the menu will be a black truffle omelette with dressed salad, Lobster club sandwich, Filet of Dover Sole ‘‘à la Meunière’’ and a delicate Peach and strawberry soup with coconut sorbet and poppy seed tuile. The café will also serve French pastries, a Café gourmand and an afternoon tea with a fashionably French twist.

The Dior Cafe will be on the fourth floor of Harrods, on the fourth, beside a special Dior exhibition and will be open daily from 10am until 8pm until 14 April. It will take reservations.

And if you haven't the time to try the cafe, pop into their Food Hall where special Dior cupcakes and tea will be on sale.

Test Drive

We popped into the Dior Cafe for lunch at the end of its first week and the place was doing tremendous business. We kicked things off with the prettiest plate of canapes £8.50) - appropriately sized for if you're ever hoping to fit into the Dior clothes featured at the next-door exhibition. 

Starters included a Spring plate of asparagus with a poached duck egg (£13) which put a recent one we'd had at a notable brasserie to shame. We felt we had to have the foie gras parfait - mainly because it came with Dom Perignon gelee (£15) - it was a decent portion, if a trifle salty. 

The chicken with Spring veg, served up with a thyme jus (£20) was delicious but the lobster club (£23) didn't perform quite so well - mainly because it suffered by comparision to a brilliant one we'd had a recent preview tasting for the new Savoy restaurant. It really needed more lobster, and was missing the bacon it needed to make it a truly cracking club.

Desserts were both really good - and the wines are pretty fairly priced when you consider you're at Harrods. A large-ish glass of the Harrods Chablis at £8 went down a treat.

Under no circumstances miss out on a trip to the exhibition if you're heading here to eat - it's a must for anyone remotely interested in fashion.

Prices were correct at time of writing. Hot Dinners were invited to eat at the Dior pop-up.
 

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