Cloth Cornhill

What it is

Cloth Cornhill is the second restaurant from Joe Haynes, Ben Butterworth and chef Tom Hurst, the team behind Cloth in Farringdon. It occupies the former Simpson's Tavern, a City chophouse founded in 1757 that closed in 2022. The two first-floor dining rooms keep their high-backed mahogany booths and brass coat rails, food comes up by dumbwaiter, and there is a pub on the ground floor. The menu is British and generous: devils on horseback with black pudding and brown sauce (£9), Dorset crab cocktail (£19), grilled lemon sole with potted shrimp and sea beet (£32), venison, bacon and prune pie (£34), a Suffolk pork chop with sauce Robert and a 750g Somerset Barnsley chop. Set lunch runs Monday to Thursday at £24 or £29, and on Fridays steak frites with salad and pudding costs £29. It is open on weekdays.