From palace to plate

Some of the city’s finest restaurants are found inside museums. COUNTRY LIFE writers round up the very best

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Although it’s not unusual for a restaurant’s menu to be inspired by the ingredients that are grown and produced locally, few are influenced by the architecture of the buildings they occupy. The Granar

Serves 6Prep time 15 min • 150g hot-smoked trout, roughly chopped • 1 small garlic clove • Finely grated zest ½ lemon, plus juice of 1 lemon • 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra to drizzle • 19

There is a story that in the 17th century, Oliver Cromwell banned Eccles cakes on the grounds that they were too indulgent: all of that melting pastry and expensive dried fruit, sugar and spice deemed