HUŎ to open in Chelsea next year

Chef Michael Lim and co-owners Graham Rebak and Adam Wilkie will open neighbourhood restaurant HUŎ in early 2021 on Chelsea’s Park

It will serve a menu of dishes from around China and Southeast Asia, all prepared from scratch using traditional Chinese, Thai, Malay and Singaporean disciplines designed to ‘represent a lifetime’s work’ of Lim’s time in professional kitchens.

Weekly and seasonal specials will sit alongside snacks, small plates and main dishes on the menu.

The restaurant will also house a separate bar area serving Asian-inspired cocktails as well as some of the more unusual Japanese whiskies, vodkas and craft beer.

The interior is being designed by Jonathan Clark Architects and will take inspiration from the immediate vicinity surrounding the restaurant when it was popularly known as ‘ Chelsea Beach’, with bleached timber banquettes and flooring and a white timber raft ceiling.

“It might feel like we’re going against the grain opening a restaurant in the current climate, but we’ve taken our time over HUŎ and it now feels like the right moment to launch the next iteration of our story,” says Rebak.

“ULI’s success has confirmed the demand for our brand of Asian cooking and when combined with Jonathan Clark’s crisp and cool interiors, we are confident that Chelsea locals will be quick to add HUŎ to their little black book of regular haunts.”