Tratra: French chef Stéphane Reynaud to open Shoreditch restaurant
Acclaimed French chef and cookery writer Stéphane Reynaud will open his first London restaurant in April, within Shoreditch’s Boundary hotel.
The new opening will be named Tratra, and will take over what is curently Boundary restaurant in the hotel’s basement.
It will be the third restaurant from Reynaud, who has been cheffing for 25 years, but his first outside of Paris.
The chef is becoming an international personality in his own right, and has appeared on Saturday Kitchen. He has also gained popularity in his homeland off the back of no fewer than nine hit cookery books.
Though further details of what to expect at this London venture are scarce, Reynaud’s cooking tends to place an emphasis on meat and charcuterie. After all, he grew up in a family of pig farmers and butchers, and his back catlogue of books includes Pork and Sons and Stéphane Reynaud's Book of Tripe.
There's also a clue in the name: Tratra is a colloquial French term meaning 'traditional with a modern twist'.
Tratra will become the latest in the Prescott and Conran restaurant group, run by Sir Terence Conran and Peter Prescott. The group also owns Les Deux Salons near Trafalgar Square, Lutyens on Fleet Street, Parabola at The Design Museum in Kensington, and Albion restaurants in Shoreditch, Bankside and Clerkenwell.
