Crustaceans, sushi and more at '85'

Lutyens restaurant, bar and cellar rooms will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner from 7:30 am to midnight.

The cuisine in the 125-seat restaurant is crustaceans, sushi, classic French and English recipes, and at the bar classic French country style meals.

Lutyens designed the eight-storey Portland stone building, next door to the journalists’ church, Sir Christopher Wren’s famous wedding cake-style St Bride’s, and it opened as the head office of Reuters and the Press Association shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939. 

Generations of Reuters people referred to it simply as “85”.

The building cost £450,000, about three times the original estimate, and fetched £32 million when Reuters consolidated all its London offices at Canary Wharf in 2005. ■