{"id":872509,"date":"2026-04-04T23:07:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/872509\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T23:07:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:07:53","slug":"nellies-at-simpsons-in-the-strand-raise-a-toast-to-this-boozy-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/872509\/","title":{"rendered":"Nellie&#8217;s at Simpsons-in-the-Strand: Raise a toast to this boozy opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nellie\u2019s is the only room in which designer Shayne Brady was given carte blanche by King. And so comes a brooding world of deep reds, ornate drapery, safari patternage and rich textures of velvet. If it sounds like I\u2019m describing a yoghurt from Marks &amp; Spencer, I can only apologise. It suits the short <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/drinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drinks<\/a> and cocktails. Most are \u00a316. The signature peach melba sling blends Peruvian pisco with peach schnaps, raspberry and lime juice and is topped with cream soda. It\u2019s a devotional nod to Escoffier\u2019s vintage dessert, built of Nellie\u2019s toast. Otherwise, the classics, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/going-out\/bars\/egerton-house-hotel-bar-review-martini-b1106757.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">martini<\/a> to Manhattan, are expert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nellie\u2019s is the only room in which designer Shayne Brady was given carte blanche by King. And so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,12200,393,4884,165916,257,2599,9582,16,15],"class_list":["post-872509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-drinks","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-jeremy-king","tag-london","tag-restaurant","tag-simpson","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116348957823932536","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872509","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=872509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}