{"id":807154,"date":"2026-03-06T04:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/807154\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T04:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:52:23","slug":"the-new-london-restaurants-that-deserve-to-live-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/807154\/","title":{"rendered":"The new London restaurants that deserve to live forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dover turns two this month; it opened quietly enough, with barely a whisper of PR, no social media and the owner openly admitting that atmosphere would, for him, always trump whatever came out of the kitchen. It served New York-inspired Italian at the time when French bistros were in their resurgent pomp. And yet immediately, it was a smash. It is the perfect date restaurant, being sufficiently beautiful to make its diners feel beautiful, an invaluable trait aided by the flatteringly low lights. Staff help; they seem to glide, never intruding. There is, truth be told, always a sense of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/going-out\/bars\/dover-street-counter-bar-review-b1269618.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">naughtiness in the air<\/a>, as if at any moment a model and a race-car driver might appear from the loos together. Afterwards, you want to go out, find a dancefloor, and dance till it\u2019s light again. There will always be a place for that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dover turns two this month; it opened quietly enough, with barely a whisper of PR, no social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,25231,393,1203,4884,4414,257,56079,16,15],"class_list":["post-807154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-cooking","tag-england","tag-food","tag-great-britain","tag-kitchen","tag-london","tag-michelin","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116180441093680227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}