Ollie Dabbous to launch restaurant with London’s largest wine list

Wine and dine: Ollie Dabbous with his team at Henrietta
Daniel Hambury/Stella Pictures
Ben Norum27 February 2018

Ollie Dabbous will open a highly anticipated new restaurant in Piccadilly this spring, almost a year after closing his ultra-successful eponymous debut.

He packed up Dabbous in June citing plans for something bigger and better, and while fans have been able to find him and his menus at his restaurant Henrietta in Covent Garden’s Henrietta Hotel, now details of his new flagship are starting to appear.

The restaurant will be called HIDE, and will feature three different spaces in one, incorporating a la carte dining, tasting menus and a dedicated bar.

It will also stock the biggest selection of wine in London, with not far off 7,000 bottles on offer.

The 85 Piccadilly restaurant – in the site formerly occupied by La Brasserie Mayfair – will consist of Ground, which will serve an a la carte menu and also feature a bakery; Above, on a mezzanine, which will boast views over Green Park and focus on tasting menus and set lunches; and Below, in the basement, which will be a bar run by cocktail guru Oskar Kinberg, in a similar style to Oskar’s Bar which he ran beneath Dabbous.

The restaurant has partnered with Hedonism Wines, based around the corner, to be able to offer in excess of 6,800 bottles. Everything available at the shop will be able to be purchased in the restaurant, making it London’s biggest list by some distance. The restaurant is hiring up to 15 sommeliers to help manage this excessive quantity, making wine a key part of the site’s focus.

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In terms of the food, we still don’t know exactly what to expect, but we do know that in the kitchen alongside Dabbous will be Lucas Selby, who won National Chef of the Year 2017 and the Roux Scholar 2017, and Josh Angus who previously cooked at Dabbous as well as Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons. Watch this space.

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