Bringing a thoughtful voice to London’s global dining landscape, Le Nusa arrives on the Strand with a quietly confident take on modern Indonesian cuisine. Following successful openings in Jakarta and Paris, the London opening presents the group’s most refined menu to date, focusing on dishes from across the Indonesian archipelago prepared with contemporary techniques and modern presentation.
The London restaurant adapts the concept for a local audience, emphasising precision, seasonal produce and a restrained style of plating. Indonesian flavours remain central, but the overall execution is designed to suit London’s modern dining expectations. The interiors reflect the same approach, bringing a particularly elegant feel with its white-clothed tables and striking chandelier light fixtures. Batik patterns, woven textiles and decorative elements such as suntiang and gebyok feature throughout the space, adding a vibrant colour and warmth.
The kitchen takes a broad, regional approach, using Indonesian flavours as the foundation for clean and expertly balanced plates. The menu includes starters such as Kambing Sambal Andaliman, seared lamb cutlets with green chilli and charred spring onion, and Bakwan Goreng, seasonal vegetable fritture with a sweet chilli soy sauce. Larger plates include Tongseng Kambing, a Javanese-style curry with braised lamb shank and pickled tomatoes, and Rendang Daging, slow-cooked beef shin in a coconut milk reduction with lemongrass and turmeric.
For desserts, guests can expect Gethuk cassava cake with sagoo pearl sauce and coconut ice cream, or Nagasari, a traditional rice flour and coconut milk cake served with a pandan tuile. A set lunch and theatre menus are also available, offering one, two or three courses alongside a glass of bubbles or fruit juice. Tucked into red tuna ceviche with pickled beetroot, or sweet corn and coconut milk soup, before moving onto confit duck leg with seasonal vegetables, or pan-seared swordfish with an Indonesian sweet and spicy curry sauce.