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Nest – closed at the end of March 2026 – reopens just one month later under the same team but with a different, tavern-ish format. Luke Wasserman, Toby Neill and Johnnie Crowe will now offer a take on the traditional British pub with chef Kirsty Easterbrook (formerly sous chef at St Barts) producing dishes such as puffed pig skin with smoked cod’s roe; lamb scrumpets with mint; turbot with English sparkling wine sauce, and lamb or hogget with anchovy and gem lettuce.

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374 - 378 Old Street, London, EC1V 9LT

What the Newspaper Critics are saying

Evening Standard

Guest reviewer Heather Steele was wowed by a succession of small plates at this new bistro from the St Barts team: smoked cod’s roe dip, ‘Chunion Puffs’ – “polished, one-bite wonders of molten cheese and onion” – and hogget kofta with fermented chilli.

The high point of her lunch was “a genius pork and cuttlefish sausage, accompanied by ribbons of sauerkraut and a quenelle of dark mustard, made in-house with the skins of red grapes. They should sell the stuff by the jar.”

All was not perfect, though. Service was patchy, even in an all-but-empty restaurant, and the 80s soundtrack repeated itself. Still, Heather reckoned, “It’s early days, and just a few more guests and an extra chef behind the pass will make this place sing like its sausage.”

Heather Steele - 2026-06-01
374 - 378 Old Street, London, EC1V 9LT

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