Madsen – not mad-for-it

Walking into Madsen is like walking into an Ikea display room, complete with birch veneer chairs and tables and half empty bookshelves. It’s minimalist (slightly clinical and sterile) and is, rather unsurprisingly, Scandinavian. I can’t remember visiting a restaurant in London on a Thursday night that was as empty as this. We arrived towards 8pm on Thursday evening and there were two other tables of two already dining. Once they left, we had the restaurant to ourselves…