Patrick Frawley to launch Spitalfields restaurant
On Brushfield Street, 65a will offer an ‘elegant yet uncomplicated menu of classic dishes peppered with French inflections’.
Frawley already operates two pubs in the immediate area - The Ten Bells and The Gun. His East London Pub Co. also operates The Lock Tavern in Camden and The Saxon in Clapham.
The kitchen at 65a will be headed by executive chef Maura Baxter, who has spent the past 20 years’ cooking in both the UK and her native Ireland.
Her menu will include French onion soup; fillet steak with Café de Paris butter; burger à l’Américaine; whole grilled native lobster; and rotisserie chicken.
Dessert options will include flourless chocolate cake; crème brûlée; and poached pear.
65a’s drinks list will be led by a selection of French rosé wine, with crisp whites sourced predominantly from France and a selection of ‘big, bold’ reds from the Mediterranean and beyond also available.
Cocktails will include the Bloody Good Spritz! (honey tequila, Oloroso sherry, blood orange sorbet and prosecco); and the Green Mango Margarita (tequila, mezcal, caraway liqueur, green mango and Tajin).
With a dining room boasting high ceilings and large, arched windows, the 155-cover restaurant has been designed to ‘serve as the perfect setting for leisurely long lunches and laid-back evening meets’.
