Des Gunewardena has announced plans to open a multifaceted restaurant and bar next year at Olympia, the Victorian exhibition halls in west London currently undergoing a five-year upgrade costing £1.3bn. The announcement comes as Des, a former partner in D&D London, opens the first ventures of his new company D3 Collective – Engel and Jang, […]
Former D&D London restaurateur Des Gunewardena will make his comeback this summer with two new openings at the City of London’s Royal Exchange, which will be the flagship of his new company D3 Collective. Engel, a cocktail bar with a live space for cabaret, will occupy the north and east mezzanines of the early Victorian […]
Restaurant group D&D London has struck a deal with industry investors which is designed to secure its future, according to reports this week. The deal, which values the company at around £60million, involves Calveton, the owner of Byron hamburgers, and Breal Capital, which recently took over Vinoteca wine bars to add to the three brewers […]
Des Gunewardina (left in photo), half of the D&D London operation that took over Conran Restaurants in a 2006 management buy-out, has left the company “to pursue other ventures”, days before it opens its 41st venue, Orelle in Birmingham. His co-founder David Loewi, the other D who served as deputy chairman and chief operating officer, […]
