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    Groucho Club’s licence suspended in blow to ArtFarm
    November 29, 2024November 29, 2024 HardensBytes

    The Groucho Club has closed its doors following the suspension of its licence pending a criminal investigation, in a severe blow to ArtFarm, the hospitality arm of Swiss art dealership Hauser + Wirth, which bought the Soho membership club for £40m three years ago. Westminster council suspended the licence for 28 days on Tuesday, following […]

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    Artfarm’s new Italian in Somerset
    September 6, 2024September 6, 2024 HardensBytes

    Artfarm, the hospitality arm of the Hauser + Wirth international art dealership, is to open its latest restaurant tomorrow – back where it began 10 years ago, at H+W’s rural art gallery on Durslade Farm near Bruton in Somerset. Da Costa restaurant is named after co-founder Iwan Wirth’s Italian grandfather, who was born in the village […]

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    Fresh fish from Artfarm near Balmoral
    April 7, 2023April 7, 2023 HardensBytes

    A former Co-op shop in a village near Balmoral rescued by King Charles is to reopen this month as an upmarket fishmonger/restaurant, part of Swiss art dealers Manuela and Iwan Wirth’s growing Artfarm hospitality group. Fish Shop at Ballater, in Royal Deeside on the edge of the Cairngorms National Park, will serve fish ethically sourced […]

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    Hix hops back to town with Groucho role
    November 4, 2022November 4, 2022 HardensBytes

    Celebrity chef Mark Hix is to make a come-back in the capital as food & beverage director of the Groucho Club – two years after losing his HIX London restaurant group to the pandemic and retreating to his native Dorset. The new appointment would seem to be a marriage made in heaven. Mark has been a […]

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    Artfarm gobbles up the Groucho
    August 12, 2022August 12, 2022 HardensBytes

    Soho’s legendary Groucho Club, a magnet for hell-raisers since Oliver Reed and Ken Russell (pictured) attended the opening party in 1985, has been acquired by the Artfarm hospitality group for a reported £40 million. Owned by Swiss art dealers Manuela and Iwan Wirth, Artfarm began as a museum café at the country offshoot of their […]

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