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Exclusive: The Gladwin Brothers are opening The Black Sheep in May
The Gladwin Brothers are opening another restaurant in south west London.
The Gladwin Brothers are opening another restaurant in south west London.
A Galvin brothers closure, Heston pop-up and new Hawksmoor opening are amongst this week’s news...
Glynn Purnell to launch new restaurant in a Coventry monastery, Magpie in Mayfair closes, Galvin brothers make way for Mark Greenaway in Edinburgh and Rowley Leigh appointed culinary director of new West London opening
On the evening of November 17th, 1873, two decades before Eros pitched up, Piccadilly Circus welcomed a glittering newcomer into its midst. Designed by architect Thomas Verity, who had a hand in both the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) and the Royal Albert Hall, The Criterion was an ornate, five-storey building with the Marble Hall and a grand, American-style Long Bar on the ground floor, and a theatre in its basement; not to be upstaged, the floors above featured several dining rooms and a ballroom.
When Le Gavroche decamped from Lower Sloane Street to Upper Brook Street in 1981, leaving a little unexpired lease for the Roux brothers to play with, Gavvers was born.