Artistry in the kitchen

Lisa Hilton says calmly brilliant cooking rescues a vogueish restaurant full of underwhelming art

Tulips “Nice, red, tall stiff, In a vase, On a table, In a room, In our house.” FANS OF SUE TOWNSEND’S Adrian Mole will recognise this poem, the work of Mole’s yobbish nemesis Barry Kent. Barry naturally wins the poetry prize for which Mole is earnestly competing, his staggering verbal ineptitude rendered transcendental in the eyes of the judges by his alluring roughness. I was reminded of Barry when taking a look at the artworks of Jonny Gent, one of the founding partners of the Sessions Arts Club in Clerkenwell, whose arrival on London’s wearied restaurant scene has been greeted with the rapture usually reserved for … the last time someone opened the capital’s “most beautiful restaurant”. Gent’s works on canvas include highlights such as “2 marines fucking a guys…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2021

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