With highballs at £6 (Bloody Maria), cocktails at £8 (Corpse Reviver) and an oyster happy hour (6-7pm) where oysters sell for £1, the new east London haunt certainly doesn't empty pockets. Make sure you try the seared mackerel is paired with three wafer-thin slices of blood orange and turnip tops, as well as the pumpkin ice cream mixed with whey caramel and meringue sprinkled with sage. Rather than offering guests an option of what they can feast on, diners sit down to find a postcard-sized set menu with four to six dishes on offer – and as expected, the food is complex, highly technical, and foraged and sourced from all over Britain. Not only Scandi in design, but Lyle’s menu is undoubtedly New Nordic-inspired too. The room is stripped-back and minimalistic, with simple Ercol chairs and menus coated with Sans-serif fonts adding detail to the white-washed walls. Walk inside Lyle’s and you can’t help but be smacked with the overwhelming Scandiness flowing through the walls. Tucked away on the manic, chaotic, and haywire road that is Shoreditch High Street is Lyle's restaurant, a 50-seater eatery helmed by former St John Bread & Wine head chef and winner of Best Chef at last year's GQ Food and Drinks Awards, James Lowe.
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