Restaurateur Jeremy King, the founder of the Wolseley who was ousted from his company Corbin & King last year, has announced his plan to open a new restaurant next year.

The Park, in the Bayswater Road’s Park Modern building opposite Kensington Park Gardens, will be a brasserie in the ‘grand European café’ tradition that inspired his earlier creations, including the Delaunay and Brasserie Zédel – although it will have a more modern feel.

Jeremy said in a statement released digitally: “I can confirm I am ‘getting back in the saddle’ – or perhaps more precisely getting the hacking jacket tailored and building the stable.

“It has been a fascinating year for me and anyone who has followed my tentative steps into Instagram will know that I have been alluding to the next chapter. At heart I am a restaurateur and hotelier so I have held off from troubling you until I had something confirmed and signed to talk about.”

Thai-based Minor International, formerly the majority investor, took control of Corbin & King last year following a bitter struggle, and now runs the company as the Wolseley Hospitality Group.

In his latest message, Jeremy puts a positive spin on the events of the past year: “While the last thing I wanted to do was lose the restaurants, and indeed walk away from my extraordinary staff and colleagues without so much as a goodbye, it might also have been, in retrospect, the best thing that could happen to me — although it was impossible to deduce that at the time.”

Jeremy has recently taken an advisory position with Jamie Oliver’s restaurant business, and has also hinted at a possible opening in the West End, without divulging any details.