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Food

The RA’s new restaurant prioritises its art over its customers

But the Keeper’s House is nonetheless my kind of place

28 May 2016

9:00 AM

28 May 2016

9:00 AM

The Keeper’s House sits in the basement of Burlington House, a restaurant in disguise. It is quite different from the grand cafés of St James’s and Mayfair, which are raging exhibitionists with banquettes splayed like limbs. It is secretive and it knows, consciously or not, the tricks of children’s literature: the looking-glass, the wardrobe and the door.

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Keeper’s House, RA, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD, tel: 020 7300 5881.

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