Sir Terence Conran, whose London restaurant legacy includes Bibendum, Quaglinos, and the now-closed original Blueprint Cafe at the Design Museum, has died at 88. Marked by a deep, earnest sincerity about the values of — Anglo European — simplicity, quality, and taste, his overarching restaurant legacy now reverberates louder in the kitchens of his alumni than those that bore his direct name.

His first restaurant, Soup Kitchen, opened in 1953, punctuating 13 years of rationing with the Provençal attitudes, and