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Flying High

What with the bizarre weather and the fact that almost every main route in London is currently clogged by roadworks, you’re feeling a little nuts.

But you’ll feel even crazier if you head to Electric Birdcage, a new dim sum parlour and late-night cocktail bar that opens in the West End today. Its interior — designed by the clever Shaun Clarkson — is deliciously whacky.

Features include a Fibonacci-style patterned floor, tree roots that become tables, a pair of ebonised stallions, a stained glass window and three huge iron birdcage chandeliers that dangle from a florescent pink ceiling.

At the black marble bar, sit in a turquoise hand (that’s a chair) and drink an Electric Angel (vodka, creme de cacao, apple schnapps and fresh cream) or champagne-based Electric Birdcage, which serves eight. In the restaurant, eat dumplings filled with prawn and chives, char sui buns with pork and sweet onion, or sticky rice with mango.

It’s a feast for the eyes as well as the stomach.

You’ll probably go crazy for it.


Electric Birdcage, 11 Haymarket, SW1Y 4BP (020 7839 2424 or electricbirdcage.com).

Location
11 Haymarket
London, Greater London SW1Y 4BP
020 7839 2424
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