Jake Finn to open second Cinder restaurant
The new restaurant will be larger than Cinder's original site in Belsize Village, which launched on the first day the Covid lockdown lifted in 2021, but be conceptually similar with a menu of dishes that take influences from Peru, Japan, Italy, France and Greece, and feature ingredients cooked on a Josper grill.
Offering a range of set menus as well as the standard a la carte menus for larger group bookings, dishes to feature at Cinder's new restaurant will include cedar plank salmon with pickled cucumber and shallots; chicken thighs with confit lemon and garlic; and Mastelo cheese with a Kalamata olive glaze and oregano.
There will also be a selection of raw dishes such as seabass ceviche with cucumber, jalapeno and coriander; tuna carpaccio with black beer ponzu, radish and yuzu tobiko; and scallop tartar with miso and spring onion.
The wine list will be overseen by London-based importer The Modest Merchant.
Cinder St John's Wood will boast 46 covers in its upstairs dining room with both booth and table seating available. There will also be a 20-seat bar area and a 12 cover PDR.
The restaurant's interiors will be overseen by Adam Night of Nefarious Design and include old tiles discovered when the building work started.
Finn's CV includes stints at La Petite Maison and The Ritz.
