The late, unlamented Cactus Blue stood on the Fulham Road as a testament to rugby shirt-wearing, blaring Hooray Henrys and Henriettas, knocking back mediocre cocktails and chewy overcooked burgers with moneyed aplomb. If it was an unimpressive institution, it nevertheless occupied a prime piece of Kensington real estate, and the opportunity for a proper, grown-up restaurant to open here was a tempting one.
 
Now, in the shape of the prosaically but accurately named Eighty-Six, such a restaurant exists. The first thing that grabs you when you walk in is the impressive room, designLSM (who were also responsible for Galvin La Chapelle’s mix of classicism and modernity). In its mixture of baroque and faintly rococo decor, classically English cuisine and temptingly decadent downstairs cocktail bar, it’s clearly designed to be a destination spot for the well-heeled gourmands of the area, but the quality of the setting and surroundings are sufficiently upmarket and alluring to attract punters from considerably further than SW postcodes.
 

A breathtaking bar and restaurant located on London’s Fulham Road, Eighty-Six is a fashionably decadent venue appealing to South West London’s most style-conscious residents. Eighty-Six is much more than just another style bar, earning many nods from the foodie world as an up and coming place to be.