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An invitation to lunch at Caviar Kaspia was, once upon a time, an offer you simply didn't refuse.
Providing, of course, that the bill was on someone else.
Because caviar, smeared on blinis or piled high on baked potatoes,
sure didn't come cheap. There may have been other things on the
menu, but no one paid them much heed. This was
all about lashings of the black stuff.
Caviar Kaspia's signature baked potato and caviar: ‘there are few better dishes on earth…only
the price, at just under £150, is ridiculous'
Caviar Kaspia popped her final tin about two decades back.
And that site, hidden down a smart Mayfair mews, was taken over by Gavin Rankin (who used to be the boss), and transformed into the brilliant Bellamy's.
It prospers to this day. Kaspia, on the other hand, went
quiet. Until last year, when she reopened as a members'
club in another Mayfair backstreet. But a £2,000 a year membership fee proved hard to swallow, meaning the doors were opened to
the great unwashed.
Which is how we find ourselves sitting in a rather handsome - albeit near empty - dining room, lusciously
lavish, under the stern gaze of a stern painting of a very stern man. The soft, crepuscular gloom is broken up by
the glare of table lamps, indecorously bright, while a loud soundtrack of indolent, indeterminate
beats throbs in the background. The whole place is scented with gilded ennui.
Our fellow diners are two young South Korean women of pale, luminescent beauty, clad in diaphanous couture.
They don't speak, rather communicate entirely via camera phone.
Pose, click, check, filter, post. Immaculate waiters hover in the shadows.
We sip ice-cold vodka, and eat a £77 caviar and
smoked-salmon Kaspia croque monsieur that tastes far
better than it ought to. Next door, a large table fills with a glut of the noisily, glossily confident.
We're looked after by a wonderful French lady of such effervescent charm and
charisma that had she burst into an impromptu performance of ‘Willkommen', we would have barely blinked.
Baked potatoes, skin as crisp as parchment, insides
whipped savagely hard with butter and sour cream, are a study in tuber
art. A cool jet-black splodge of oscietra caviar, gently saline, raises them to the sublime.
Only the price, at just under £150 each, is ridiculous.
But there are few better dishes on earth.
I'd eat this every day if I could. But I can't.
Obviously. That's the problem with caviar. One taste is never enough.
About £200 per head. Caviar Kaspia, 1a Chesterfield Street, London W1; caviarkaspialondon.com
★★★★✩
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Come to this classic French restaurant for the canard or homard à la presse (£150-£220
per person); stay for beef tartare (£42), foie gras (£22) and poulet de bresse rôti (£190, two courses).
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The cost for one of London's most pricey apartments will begin at
£35million - with 600 megarich customers already securing a
spot on the waiting list.
Pricing details of billionaire John Caudwell's spectacular 1 Mayfair development
have now been revealed and only those with the deepest pockets can hope to afford one
of the lavish pads.
The cheapest apartment on offer is expected to be an eye-watering £35million - around 70 times the average cost of a house in the capital.
Due to complete in Spring 2026 the scheme will easily surpass London's previous record breaker, the £1.3billion One Hyde Park development in Knightsbridge.
Caudwell told The Standard that there are already more than 600 prospective buyers on a waiting list of
billionaires and centi-millionaires who have expressed an interest in making a purchase at the scheme.
There will be just 24 'principal residences' in the property including lateral apartments, penthouses and townhouses with up to five bedrooms, and five more smaller 'pieds-à-terre' apartments.
The size of the homes has not yet been disclosed but the developers say even the most modest property will start with a guide price exceeded by only a handful of mansions in London's
richest neighbourhoods.
The average price of all 29 units - which cover 300,000 sq ft - will be close to
£70million.
The cost of London's most pricey apartments will begin at £35million - with 600 megarich customers already
securing a spot on the waiting list. Pictured: A Computer generated image of the Mayfair
development
Details of pricing at John Caudwell's spectacular Mayfair development has now been revealed and only those with the deepest pockets can hope
to afford one of the lavish pads. Pictured: The building's topping out
ceremony
The entry level price of £35million is 70 times the average London property
value of around £500,000, and 130 times the national average price of £268,000 revealed in today's Nationwide
house price survey for November.
The development's basement is being dug down to 90ft below ground level
to make room for a health spa with a 20 metre swimming
pool as well as a car park.
The designs were led by New York based architect Robert Stern and practice RAMSA, with contractors,
Mace, the construction managers and PJ Carey
responsible for the creation of the basement substructure and
superstructure.
Due to complete in Spring 2026 after a six years build the scheme
will easily surpass London's previous record breaker,
the £1.3billion One Hyde Park development in Knightsbridge.
Pictured: The ground floor at 1 Mayfair
Billionaire John Caudwell (pictured) is funding the scheme.
He founded the mobile phones retailers Phones
4u
The size of the homes has not yet been disclosed but the developers say even the most modest property will
start with a guide price exceeded by only a handful of mansions in London's richest neighbourhoods.
Pictured: A glamourous hallway within Mayfair 1
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Caudwell - who founded the mobile phones retailers Phones 4u - attended the topping out of 1 Mayfair alongside senior
members of the construction team.
The ceremony was marked by the final steel rafter,
one of 79 at roof level, being put into place on the top of the nine-storey
main apartment building.
No expense has been spared on the building's interior and it will feature
a ceiling with hand-painted frescos based on Michelangelo's Map of the Heavens in the Vatican, a reception room with a
double height ceiling and 18ft high French windows
overlooking the garden.
There will also be a Palace of Versailles Hall of
Mirrors-style crystal callery, created from over 1,264 hand-set
pieces of cut glass, a library and a garden gallery, with seating
areas opening directly onto the central courtyard garden.
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