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After four years of running a supper club, ex-Galvin La Chapelle chef Gabriel Waterhouse opened his own Hackney restaurant. The format, with two sharing tables, featured only one option: a 9-course tasting menu (with paired wines optional). In July 2021
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Summary
“A real event, with very complex and often-experimental food” – Gabriel & Patricia Waterhouse’s “temple of high cuisine” started out in his flat and, since 2021, has occupied this Scandi-esque, high-ceilinged, light-filled space near Regent’s Canal. Bookings are available for 1-6 diners and much of the seating is at communal tables, to which the ‘Long Form Menu’ at £155 per person is served at peak times (with cheaper options at quieter times). “There’s practically no choice on wine: either you have the wines provided or you have the non-alcoholic versions (same price)”. All reports agree this is “amazing” cooking – “you might not love it all, but you will certainly find it interesting!” – and there’s a general feeling that it is also “very good value for a great gastronomic experience”. As to the overall set-up, while the odd report says the seating is “a bit rag tag”, most say “don’t be put off by the supperclub set-up or shared tables”.
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“Wow! Terrifically innovative, technical cooking and a lovely supper club concept of common tables, complete with a welcome and farewell from the chef” inspires ongoing acclaim for Gabriel Waterhouse’s excellent Bethnal Green venture (which relocated a couple of years ago to an airy new space). It’s £155 for his 10-course menu with drinks pairings (and on Wednesday nights and Saturday lunchtimes a shorter selection is served for £100): “for this standard of cuisine, it’s a great price when so much London serious ‘fine’ dining is nowadays just unaffordable”.
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“A really exceptional experience… a real find… a fantastic night out” – Gabriel Waterhouse inspires acclaim for his relocated Bethnal Green supper club, whose gracious permanent home occupies a high-ceilinged space in Cambridge Heath. Every night, there’s “a one-sitting, 9-course tasting menu with low-intervention wine” (or non-alcoholic pairings) delivering “some really innovative dishes”. Ratings would be even higher, were it not for one or two reports along the lines of “love the new menu, but too many foams…”
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On the move again… chef Gabriel Waterhouse (ex-Galvin La Chapelle) opened his first permanent HQ, perched by the canal in Hackney in January 2020, after four years of running a supper club. Now – having closed in Hackney in June 2021 – he’s reopening in Bethnal Green in autumn 2021. The format will be similar, with only one option: a 9-course tasting menu (with paired wines optional). We’ve rated the new venture on the basis that it scores similarly to the last, which won praise for “a fantastic tasting menu, with innovative and precise dishes”. The only critical comment? – “some delicate and well-conceived dishes but some (such as the heralded pheasant doughnut) came out as confused and incoherent”.
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1 Corbridge Crescent, London, E2 9DS
Restaurant details
Prices
| Availability | 2 courses | 3 courses |  |
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| Always | £0.00 |  |
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| Dinner | £125.00 | |
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| Cost | Availability | Courses | |
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| Menu1 | 155.00 |
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| Wine per bottle | £40.00 |
| Filter Coffee | £0.00 |
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| Bread | £0.00 |
| Service | 10.00% |
1 Corbridge Crescent, London, E2 9DS
Opening hours
| Monday | CLOSED |
| Tuesday | CLOSED |
| Wednesday | 7 pm‑11 pm |
| Thursday | 7 pm‑11 pm |
| Friday | 7 pm‑11 pm |
| Saturday | 12:30 pm‑11:30 pm |
| Sunday | CLOSED |
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