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Located within Chris Lucas’ lavish fine diner Society , Lillian Brasserie is a European-inspired bar and restaurant offering a more relaxed counterpoint to its sibling, equally suited to late-night cocktails as it is champagne-fuelled long lunches.

Executive chef Luke Headon (Ezard at Levantine Hill , The Fat Duck) takes classic French and European influences and continues Society’s strong seafood focus. You might order spanner crab linguine tossed with lobster oil and tarragon; King George whiting doused in sauce americaine; or Headon’s take on a classic niçoise salad. The kitchen also boasts a woodfired grill, turning out proteins such as a 650-gram rib eye steak with a bone marrow glaze.

Alongside a precise rendition of a classic Martini, the cocktail list is headlined by a signature creation blending Saint Felix bitter citrus aperitivo with gin, rosé, strawberry gum, and finished with a dusting of peppermint.

The wine program makes the most of Society’s 10,000-bottle cellar using a Coravin system. And, in a nod to high society of yesteryear, Dom Pérignon rosé is available by the glass.

As a child, Chris Lucas was enamoured with the opulence and style of influential fashion retailer Lillian Wightman’s Collins Street boutique, Le Louvre. So it was only natural that his lavish European brasserie – which overlooks the former site of Wightman’s shop from a sweeping outdoor terrace – would be inspired by the late style icon.