Andrew Turner – perhaps London’s least well-known best chef – is to take over the stoves of clubland veteran Wiltons SW1, reports caterersearch.com.
It’s quite a catch for Wilton’s. Turner has been responsible for quickly turning the The Landau W1, at the Langham Hilton, into one of London’s best dining rooms.
That was the latest step in a career in which Turner has rarely put a foot wrong, culinarily speaking. So far so good. But his style is adventurous (he was a small-plates pioneer), and Wilton’s – which claims to be the oldest restaurant in London – is famously anything but.
A further concern is that Turner has also mainly been an ‘hotel chef’. But then so was current Wilton chef Jerome Ponchelle, who came from the Connaught (from which he was dislodged when the hotel was bought by the Blackstone barbarians, back in 1998).
Whatever happens. Wilton’s looks as if it’s unlikely to be quite the same ever again. Turner’s start date, however, is not yet known.
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