At a London Temple to Art, Culinary Virtuosity on Display

Rochelle ICA will delight you if you’re content with imaginative, delicious food served in an easygoing atmosphere with its own quirky style.

'Since it was founded in 1948, London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, known as ICA, has gained attention for exhibitions, screenings and other events focused on serious-minded high culture, not infrequently with a political point to make. Its bookshop, where aesthetics and left-wing politics also overlap, has long been a draw too. But ICA was never thought of as a place for a good meal.

In October, however, the proprietors of Rochelle Canteen in the Shoreditch neighborhood of East London set up a second outpost on the ground floor of ICA, a five-minute walk from Trafalgar Square in an area more propitious for genteel private clubs than for decent restaurants serving the general public. One of the owners, Margot Henderson, said it was “time our galleries took their food as seriously as they take their art.”'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/travel/rochelle-canteen-ica-london-restaurant-review.html?