This London Restaurant Features ‘Twin Peaks’ Interiors and Sexy Home Cooking

Kinkally, a Georgian-inspired restaurant and Kinky Bar in London’s Fitzrovia, may look like a Japanese matcha store with its minimalist exterior. But inside, the environment fuses David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” with “Dune.” It is a sight to behold — and the lower ground floor is where the magic happens. Stairs lead to a dimly lit open space housing the restaurant and bar. The latter glows with orange-hued lights, evoking a Sahara dust storm. The restaurant has a lighter, sand-washed hue and wabi-sabi furnishings. “The bar represents sunset, and the restaurant is sunrise,” says Diana Militski, Kinkally’s Russian owner, who describes the space as a love letter to her Eastern European heritage. Kinkally’s seductive interiors. The restaurant borrows its name from Georgian dumplings, known as khinkali, and they are the star dishes on the menu. “I remember when my mother was at work, I’d cook for my brother. It was mostly meatballs, cutlets and potato purees, but one of the big dishes was dumplings, which are called pelmeni or manti. The dish comes from different parts of east Asia and Russia,” says Militski. The 30-year-old Militski was born in Washington, D.C., and her childhood was split between the U.S. and Russia, where home cooking is considered a

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