Hot on the heels of the news that Joel Antunes is heading back to London, we read that another big name of the ’90s is coming back to the capital. Bruno Loubet – who made his name at the Inn on the Park (Four Seasons) on Park Lane in the early ’90s – is coming ‘home’ too. (NB: see PS for update). Must be something good going on here!
In fact, Loubet is already back in Blightly, cooking at Pierre Koffmann’s pop-up restaurant at Selfridges. His return (after six years Down Under) is set to become a great deal more permanent, however, as he’s to take over the dining room at the Zetter Hotel, Shoreditch, which is to be renamed Bistro Bruno. (Loubet traded before under this name, at the Soho site which in now called Arbutus.)
The news about Loubet comes in a column in this morning’s Times (not currently online). The column also reveals that the name of the new venture from Marlon Abela – proprietor of the Greenhouse and so on – opposite the Brompton Oratory is to be Bistro du Midi.
Following on from an operation in Boston (MA), this is the second Abela operation to carry the name.
PS (4 November) Bizarre. The Times reported as a fact that Loubet was going to the Zetter, but caterersearch reports that the hotel flatly denies it.
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