Jeremy King has revealed the name for his revival of Le Caprice, the legendary St James’s restaurant he has resumed control after a 25-year gap: it will be called the Arlington, after the street it is in. The restaurant closed down three years ago under the ownership of Richard Caring, who retains the name as […]
Jeremy King is to revive Le Caprice, the celebrity-magnet restaurant where he made his name alongside business partner Chris Corbin in the 1980s (Jeremy is on the right in this 1985 photograph, taken outside Le Caprice). Originally founded in 1947, the venue behind The Ritz was closed three years ago by its most recent owner, […]
Hot on the heels of restaurateur supreme Jeremy King announcing his comeback venture The Park – a modern take on the European grand café tradition launching next April opposite the entrance to Kensington Gardens – comes news that he is in “advanced talks” over two sites in the West End: one of them directly opposite […]
Restaurateur Jeremy King, the founder of the Wolseley who was ousted from his company Corbin & King last year, has announced his plan to open a new restaurant next year. The Park, in the Bayswater Road’s Park Modern building opposite Kensington Park Gardens, will be a brasserie in the ‘grand European café’ tradition that inspired […]
Jeremy King has made a surprise return to the hospitality scene – as part of Jamie Oliver’s relaunched UK business. Considered by many the doyen of London restaurateurs as founder of the Wolseley and other top-drawer establishments, Jeremy was ousted from his Corbin & King group last year after a bitter struggle with Thai-based majority investor […]
The Wolseley is to be rolled out as a “brand” in the Far East alongside a more relaxed Café Wolseley sub-brand with branches in Manchester, Birmingham and Oxford, under the ownership of Thai-based Minor International, which took control almost a year ago. Dillip Rajakarier, Minor’s chief executive, outlined plans to open Wolseley restaurants in Hong […]
Manzi’s, the long-promised seafood restaurant in Soho from The Wolseley Hospitality Group, finally has a launch date – next May, more than four years after it was first announced. Named after the much-loved family-operated restaurant in Leicester Square that ran for almost 80 years until 2006, the new Manzi’s will occupy two storeys with a large […]
The Wolseley’s outlet at Bicester Village shopping centre is closing down in a blow to Minor International, the Thai-based company that took over Corbin & King in April and renamed it The Wolseley Hospitality Group (TWHG). In a curtly expressed press release, TWHG said the closure would take place by next Wednesday, 10 August at […]
Corbin & King restaurants have been rebranded by their new owners as the Wolseley Hospitality Group, after the renowned Piccadilly restaurant that is the jewel in the company crown. The move is a logical step following the departure of founders Chris Corbin and Jeremy King, who were ousted in April following a bitter struggle with […]
A rooftop bar with 360-degree views across the City is to open next month in the former House of Fraser department store in King William Street, close to the Monument and London Bridge – a building long earmarked for a new City branch of The Wolseley. Wagtail, from Maven Leisure, will also feature a downstairs terrace […]
