Peter York, co-originator of the Sloane Ranger and a decades-spanning chronicler of the Kensington and Chelsea scene, is in shock. “San Lorenzo? Closing? No! Say it’s not true!” he screams when the bad news is delivered over the phone. “Well, what can I say … a nation mourns.”
Sad but true. The famous Knightsbridge Italian, Osteria San Lorenzo, established in the 1960s and peaking during the Eighties and Nineties — a daily hot fuss of big-hair and shoulder-padded Chanel action — appears to be yet another victim of the pandemic.
