After just over a year in business, veteran restaurateur Claudio Pulze has sold St James’s Brasserie St Jacques. “It was no longer a viable business and [he has] sold it to sommelier Richard Weiss and chef Laurence Glayzer”, reports Caterersearch.com.
Pulze, one of London’s most seasoned and admirable restaurateurs, blames the sale on the economy. We think, however, that the restaurant didn’t work for him for the simple reason that he – in conjunction, bizarrely, with star chef Pierre Koffmann – made a quite inexplicable hash of the launch. We noted in our own early days Editors’ review that the Brasserie fell “surprisingly flat across the board”.
Standards at the Brasserie seemed fine on our most recent visit, this summer, so we do hope that this “no longer viable” business works out. The new management tells us that no major changes are planned, but that we should look out for “a new canopy, within the next ten days”.
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