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The Dean Avenue restaurant, which is presently ranked at number 40 on our listing of the top 100 restaurants in the UK, closed today (12 September) and can reopen ‘in time for Thanksgiving’ in November.
The refurbishment, by Lerose Bear Studio with John Lacey as architect, will more than doubling SOLA’s total ability. Company will begin their abilities on this flooring with cocktails and canapés in an natty lounge plan, earlier than moving upstairs to their table.
The fresh deepest dining room will seat 18, with concertina doors that will also very effectively be opened to turn out to be all of the decrease-ground flooring into an unfamiliar-rent events home.
Accessible toilets and a lift between the two flooring will be certain that that the fresh SOLA abilities is on hand to all visitors.
The ground flooring, which presently includes all of the restaurant, will home the main dining room – whose ability will increase from 24 to 32, with fresh banquette-model seating – in addition to a much-enlarged, begin service-kitchen designed by Imprint Rees.
“I’m stoked that the group will now gain an even bigger kitchen, in addition to a prep kitchen downstairs, in which to experiment, innovate and clearly enact the very high standard of meals we’ve develop into identified for,” Garvey says.
“It’s amazing that we’ve performed everything now we gain to date in the exiguous kitchen home on hand to us. With to this point more space to work in, and even better tools, we will genuinely push things towards attaining the kind of ordinary we desire to and that I know the group is in a position to. I genuinely think we will have SOLA an international-class dining destination.”
All the best contrivance thru September and October, SOLA’s kitchen group, led by Victor Garvey, head chef Andy Parker and pastry chef Megan Stafford, will be cooking on somewhat about a dates at Carousel, the Fitzrovia restaurant and events home. Menus and booking well-known points for these will be confirmed soon.
The refurbishment is being supported by landlord Soho Estates, reflecting their belief in Soho as being “London’s ideally suited gastronomic destination.”
A portmanteau of Soho and Los Angeles, SOLA launched in 2019 on the dwelling of Garvey’s Spanish restaurant Rambla.
