Odette’s in Primrose Hill is to be reborn as Home Kitchen, a social enterprise fine-dining restaurant staffed by homeless people, under the direction of executive chef Adam Simmonds (centre in picture). Odette’s closed down suddenly at the end of May after a run of almost 50 years as one of London’s best-known and most atmospheric […]
Tom Waters has opened his restaurant Gorse on a permanent site in Cardiff, after a successful run as a pop-up. Taking over the former site of dog-friendly cafe Fido on Kings Road in Pontcanna, he offers a tasting menu using prime Welsh ingredients to a maximum of 22 guests. Newport-born Tom trained under fellow Welsh […]
Two prominent chef-led neighbourhood restaurants in London are to close after more than a decade. Chef-patron Bryn Williams will serve his last dinner at Odette’s in Primrose Hill tomorrow, 25 May, while L’Amorosa near Hammersmith will close its doors on 13 July. Announcing that he had sold Odette’s after 16 years, Bryn said “It’s been […]
An unprecedented line-up of chefs has been announced for the premium food offering at Spurs’s new club stadium, expected to open in August 2018. Bryn Williams (Odette’s NW1, Bryn Williams at Porth Eirias) and Dipna Anand (of Solihull’s renowned Brilliant Restaurant) are the latest culinary stars to join the development, with the Roux family and […]
It may be a London classic, but Odette’s has gone and got a bold new look. Out with the white table linens and mirrors, and in with the leather banquettes and whitewashed brick. The Primrose Hill stalwart, which opened in 1978, has also added a chef’s kitchen table (as is de rigueur nowadays), and there is […]
