I doubt there’s a better ravioli in London: The Lavery reviewed

The Lavery in South Kensington is named for Sir John Lavery, official artist of the Great War and designer of the currency of the Irish Free State, who lived here, though he died in Ireland and is buried in Putney. Lavery, of course, would no longer recognise South Kensington as his home, and his white, monumental mid-Victorian house – it’s too cold to be compared to a wedding cake, it’s a power cake – is now a fashionable restaurant and ‘event space’, which I put in quotation marks so you know I didn’t write the words ‘event space’, I just typed them out.

In houses like The Lavery, I wonder how tall the Victorians were in their heads. I like high ceilings – I am not Paul Doll, fictional commandant of Auschwitz in Martin Amis’s The Zone of Interest , who wondered how he would gas people