Noble Rot Mayfair names head chef
Overseen by the now three-strong London restaurant group’s executive chef Stephen Harris, Wood will create a menu that is ‘focused on indulgence’ with dishes including warm smoked eel, baked potato and Avruga caviar; sea bream and oyster tartare; and a whole roast duck with Chambertin sauce and potato and cep gratin for two.
Owners Dan Keeling and Mark Andrew have set an opening date of 6 April for Noble Rot Mayfair, which is located in Shepherd Market within the former site of longstanding French brasserie Le Boudin Blanc.
The new site will offer the group’s ‘trademark warmth and fine cooking’ and its ‘most ambitious’ wine programme yet balancing ‘outrageously delicious sub-£40 finds’ with rare vintages of Château d’Yquem and Domaine de la Romanée-Conti.
The original Noble Rot opened in Bloomsbury in 2015 following the success of Keeling and Andrew’s cult wine magazine of the same name with a further restaurant opening in Soho in 2020 within the former site of the Gay Hussar.
Both Noble Rots have featured on Restaurant’s list of the top 100 places to eat in the UK and have won the award for Wine List of the Year multiple times.
“We love rejuvenating old buildings: both our original Rotter Towers on Lambs Conduit Street, and second restaurant in the old site of the famous Gay Hussar on Greek St are marinated in hospitality history,” Keeling said.
“This, our third place, is certainly not lacking in its own rackety and scandalous past. With its winding staircases, wonky floors, wood panelling and countless other quirky period features, 5 Trebeck St first opened as The Running Horse in the mid-1800s, a handsome pub that earned a ripe reputation with Scotland Yard over the decades."
