London - October 07, 2005

Weighed In

Kilo Kitchen & Bar Opens

Kilo.

Anyway you consider it, hardly everyone’s favourite word. Some, in fact (Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan, Anna Friel), strive to obliterate the thing entirely.

But for those who are happy to eat what they want and let the pounds look after themselves, there’s a new way to gain weight. Get a table at Kilo Kitchen & Bar and watch your street cred fly off the scales.

The new restaurant from Danish dish Soren Jessen serves breakfast, lunch and dinner in the spot that used to be Noble Rot. The food is French and tres delicieux (scallops meuniere, foie gras with brioche, milles feuilles with berries). Serious gastronomic heavyweights can order by the kilo to share with the entire table (that’s the idea, anyway).

Worried it’s all a bit rich? Fear not. The restaurant is situated behind Vogue House, which means that streams of beautiful blondes will be lunching here (and probably lingering a bit longer at the bar upstairs, which is open from noon to midnight). So you can guarantee there’s at least one salad on offer.

If you do overeat, you can burn off some fat at Kilo’s nightclub downstairs.

So much more enjoyable — and sociable — than a treadmill/wet suit/hosepipe.

Kilo Kitchen & Bar, 3-5 Mill Street, W1 (020 7629 8877).