You bought the album. You visited the district...

Wasn't it only yesterday that Galvin opened in Baker Street and the thought of a real, bona fide brasserie seemed charmingly novel? Is it because they're a little old fashioned, slightly informal and entirely unpretentious that we love them so?

Now Galvin is officially a trail-blazing franchise with a plum second venue set in the clouds and, like all successful concepts, the brasserie format is arguably the hottest this year. The Sloane Square brasserie, brought to us from the team behind Umu and Monte's, is soon to be unveiled and looks set to provide a viable alternative to that one on the corner by the tube station that people visit because, quite simply, there's nowhere else to go.