A Famed Dining Room Returns to Harrods, Now With a £90 Centerpiece Pie
For over a century, The Georgian has been known for swanky afternoon tea. Now it wants to bring in a nighttime crowd.
The £90 pie, surrounded by sides including glazed carrots and tempura anchovies, is the star of the show at the recently reopened Georgian at Harrods.
Source: The GeorgianOver its 175 years, Harrods has specialized in retail theater. It boasted the UK’s first escalator, sold an alligator to Nöel Coward and hosted Michael Jackson’s annual Christmas shopping excursions.
In the ensuing years, that bigger-is-better approach has led Harrods to turbocharge its famous Food Halls, making them arguably one of Europe’s finest epicurean shopping stops. The luxury department store has added a string of branded cafes (Prada Caffè and Tiffany Blue Box Café) and dining rooms from celebrated chefs like the Swedish Bjorn Frantzen and New York City’s Masa Takayama. More than 10 million visitors descend on the store annually, and it’s betting that culinary offerings become an ever-increasing part of the draw. (Still, in recent months Harrods has been wrestling with its recent past, as it deals with allegations of assault by a former owner, the late Mohamed Al Fayed.)