An invitation to lunch at Caviar Kaspia was,
once upon a time, an offer you simply didn’t refuse.
Providing, of course, that the bill was on someone else.
Because caviar, smeared on blinis or piled high on baked potatoes, sure didn’t come
cheap. There may have been other things on the menu, but no one
paid them much heed. This was all about lashings of the black stuff.

Caviar Kaspia’s signature baked potato and caviar: ‘there are few better dishes on earth…only the price,
at just under £150, is ridiculous’

Caviar Kaspia popped her final tin about two decades back.
And that site, hidden down a smart Mayfair mews, was taken over by Gavin Rankin (who used to be the
boss), and transformed into the brilliant Bellamy’s.
It prospers to this day. Kaspia, on the other hand, went quiet.
Until last year, when she reopened as a members’ club in another Mayfair backstreet.
But a £2,000 a year membership fee proved hard to swallow,
meaning the doors were opened to the great unwashed.

Which is how we find ourselves sitting in a rather handsome – albeit near empty – dining room, lusciously lavish, under
the stern gaze of a stern painting of a very
stern man. The soft, crepuscular gloom is broken up by the glare of
table lamps, indecorously bright, while a loud soundtrack of indolent, indeterminate beats throbs in the background.
The whole place is scented with gilded ennui.

Our fellow diners are two young South Korean women of pale, luminescent beauty, clad
in diaphanous couture. They don’t speak, rather communicate entirely via
camera phone. Pose, click, check, filter, post. Immaculate waiters
hover in the shadows.

We sip ice-cold vodka, and eat a £77 caviar and smoked-salmon Kaspia croque monsieur that
tastes far better than it ought to. Next door, a large table fills with a glut of the noisily,
glossily confident.

We’re looked after by a wonderful French lady of such effervescent charm and
charisma that had she burst into an impromptu performance
of ‘Willkommen’, we would have barely blinked.
Baked potatoes, skin as crisp as parchment, insides whipped savagely
hard with butter and sour cream, are a study in tuber art.
A cool jet-black splodge of oscietra caviar, gently saline,
raises them to the sublime. Only the price, at just under
£150 each, is ridiculous. But there are few better dishes on earth.

I’d eat this every day if I could. But I can’t. Obviously.
That’s the problem with caviar. One taste
is never enough.

About £200 per head. Caviar Kaspia, 1a Chesterfield Street, London W1; caviarkaspialondon.com

★★★★✩

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