A pair of young chefs are launching a pop-up called ‘Pario’ at Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall next week, taking over the space left empty since the closure of Mark Hix’s Pharmacy 2 three years ago. George Brown, a private chef with plenty of pop-up experience, and Charlie Bryant, who has worked at […]
AA Gill heads out to The Woodford in search of Ben Murphy’s cuisine (a young chef of just 25 who trained under Pierre Koffmann) and finds that The Only Way is Essex is in fact a real way of life and not, as the Sunday Times’s columnist previously thought, simply a ratings-courting fiction. Incidentally he loves […]
The Sunday Times’s AA Gill revisits Damien Hirst’s Pharmacy in its new form as Pharmacy 2 in Vauxhall and finds things have changed considerably since the Notting Hill original launched in 1998, when the opening was ‘like a red-carpet premiere, a mob of paparazzi and rubberneckers, double-parked limos, teeth and tits’. “I was surprised at […]
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Artist Damien Hirst has revived his Notting Hill venture Pharmacy (long RIP) as Pharmacy 2 at his gallery in Vauxhall. The day-time canteen and evening restaurant at Newport Street Gallery, opened in collaboration with Hirst’s long-time mate and supporter Mark Hix (The Tramshed, Hix Oyster & Chop House etc) on 23 February. The menu reflects […]
