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 […]
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 […]
Two New Yorkers who first met working in a suburban grocery store more than 30 years ago have teamed up for the launch of an authentic New York-style bagel café in Primrose Hill. It’s Bagels will be unveiled in Regent’s Park Road on Monday, and opening seven days a week to eat in, on the […]
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 […]
