One of the capital’s most popular fish and seafood restaurant concepts of the past decade, London Shell Co, is to abandon its distinctive floating barges, switching focus to dry land. The Grand Duchess static barge moored in Paddington Basin will run its last service tomorrow (28 September), while the Prince Regent will make its final […]
Floating seafood operation London Shell Co is to open its first land-based site next week – a combined fishmonger and seafood bar off Parliament Hill in Highgate. Brother-and-sister team Leah and Harry Lobek launched the business in 2016, and now run two canal barges – the Prince Regent, which serves meals while cruising through London, and the […]
⦿ Jay Rayner of The Observer reviewed London Shell Co, a floating restaurant aboard a 30-year-old barge which is moored at Paddington over lunch and voyages along the Regent Canal while serving dinner in the evening. “It began as a pop-up on dry land, led by actor-turned-sommelier Harry Lobek and his sister Leah. In the small, diesel-powered […]
