Not not a review of St John Marylebone, 98 Marylebone Ln, London
St John Marylebone sits beside an Ivy Cafe, outside of which is a giant polar bear. In my adolescence, The Ivy was shorthand for somewhere agents took their favourite authors to lunch and where celebrities dined. Now, there are over thirty Ivies, including Ivy Asias, around the UK. And The Ivy? The original? Its prestige has disappeared in the pursuit of quantity over quality.
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