Bites: A Latin makeover for Quo Vadis

Joe Warwick
Sunday 15 June 2008 00:00 BST
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The latest incarnation of Quo Vadis, a London Soho institution since 1926, is the work of the Hart brothers, the Anglo-Iberian siblings behind the Spanish restaurants Fino and Barrafina.

The new Quo Vadis menu is very much British meets European, while upstairs, in the building where Marx (Karl not Groucho) once lived, the Harts have opened a club.

The application form for membership is refreshingly simple by Soho standards and, beyond basic formalities, asks only three questions: Do you like eating? Do you like drinking? And do you like Soho?

Meanwhile fans of Damien Hirst, whose work briefly adorned the walls of Quo Vadis back in the late-1990s when it was Marco Pierre White's, might want to book a table at St Alban. A Hirst effort entitled Jubilation has pride of place in the London West End restaurant. So much so that a recent diner apparently tabled an (unsuccessful) offer of £1.5m for the work that is part of the artist's famous "Butterfly" series.

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