The eminent Blackheath restaurant Chapter Two has been relaunched as Chapters – an all-day brasserie. Following a complete refurbishment, the restaurant is pitching itself as a more relaxed, ‘everyman’ destination, suitable for a snack or three course meal (and, one assumes, better placed to weather a recession).
Head chef Trevor Tobin has devised a simpler menu, based around an imported Josper (charcoal) oven, with steaks a speciality.
Steak – which is, after all, one of the most expensive standard ingredients – seems to be having a surprisingly good recession. Later this month, for example, Palm – the famous American steakhouse chain, based in New York – will launch its first property abroad, on the former Drones site in Belgravia.
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