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Restaurant Drawings Historic and Contemporary
On the 7th of June 2016 artist Lucinda Rogers will showcase her most important restaurant and food drawings, many commissioned by Britain’s leading newspapers and magazines between 1993 and 2016.
The iconic drawings will be hung on the walls of London’s most emblematic French restaurant, L’Escargot.
The showcase will include pieces drawn for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s column for The Telegraph “A Matter of Taste”, which from 1996-2000 featured some of the most notable restaurants in London; Petrus, Marco Pierre White’s Belvedere and The Square.
The exhibition will give guests a snapshot of the 90’s restaurant scene where nouvelle cuisine gave way to the rise of the British chef patron, highlighting some of the top restaurants in Britain. Bringing the subject into the present, to celebrate Soho’s thriving restaurant scene, the show will include new drawings of iconic and enduring Soho venues: L’Escargot, Bar Italia, Maison Bertaux and others.
Lucinda Rogers
Lucinda Rogers' work is represented in many permanent collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum. Her drawings of New York and London have been exhibited at the Oxo Tower on London's South Bank. Rogers works from life in the tradition of the artist as reporter, recording straight from eye to paper, which gives her drawings a particular spontaneity. She also has a prolific illustration career working regularly for the mainstream press and countless other publications and companies. She is well known as an illustrator of newspaper columns, including Jonathan Meades' "A Sense of Place" in The Times, and she drew for The Independent from 1993 to 2008 including for the food pages. Books illustrated by Lucinda Rogers include The Dictionary of Urbanism, Spitalfields Life, The Unexpected Professor by John Carey and No Place Like Home by the chef Rowley Leigh.
In May 2016 an exhibition of her drawings was held at Rook Lane Arts, in Frome, Somerset. Titled INDUSTRIOUS: Drawings of Workspace in Frome and London, the show featured workshops and other making spaces which are vital to local communities (in Frome and London), and often under threat from housing developments.
Set in the heart of Soho and conveniently located near the great theatres of London, L’Escargot has been at the epicentre of London life for almost a century. It has regularly been voted one of the best restaurants in London and is famous for its bourgeois French cooking. Snails, not surprisingly are a speciality of the house; the menu changes seasonally and centres on your French favourites including Lobster bisque, Salade Nicoise, and Coq au Vin. There is an excellent wine list with many reasonably priced bottles. L’Escargot is one of the top restaurants in Soho and has been host to stars of stage and screen for many years. Previous clients include, Coco Chanel, John Gielgud, Mick Jagger, Elton John, Ralph Richardson, Judy Dench, and the late Princess Diana. Pre-theatre and post theatre dining is popular and theatre and dinner packages are available.
L’Escargot is housed in a magnificent Georgian town-house dating from 1741. The building was the private residence of the Duke of Portland, At that time Soho was a country area, very popular for horseback hunting – and the name derives from a popular hunting cry of the time – “soohoo”.
