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Tom Conran to open a 12-month pop-up in Notting Hill

Published:  15 August, 2014

 

 

Tom Conran  is opening up a 12-month pop-up restaurant in London's Notting Hill on the former site of his Tom's Deli.

Tom Conran  is opening up a 12-month pop-up restaurant in London's Notting Hill on the former site of his Tom's Deli.

The New Tom's Bar & Bistro will offer what it claims is avant-garde food in a relaxed environment on the fashionable Westbourne Grove. The pop-up will be open in the evening downstairs with an all day bar upstairs and features a "secret" garden.

Head chef, Tom Straker, trained at the Dorchester and with Heston Blumenthal at Dinner and has brought those modern cooking techniques to create a men which will include 'Garden', 'Ocean' and 'Field' sections. Straker will source many of the ingredients from his family farm in Herefordshire and signature dishes will include: fresh pea, broad bean, roast tomato and  cavolo nero, spiced hake, split beans, white peach and toasted almonds and  lamb neck with creamed polenta, borlotti beans and pancetta.

There will also be a six course tasting menu available for £55 and featuring delicacies such as crab brioche and suckling pig .

The bar team at New Tom's have created  a list of cocktails including Tommy's Margarita, made with Tom Conran's own Chamucos tequila, fresh lime and Agave syrup, the Gojipolitan, a zingy blend of goji-berry infused vodka, cranberry juice and  triple sec and the Kensington Park Swizzle, a blend of rum, Angostura bitters, fresh mint and lime juice.

New Tom's Bar & Bistro will have an eclectic feel with original pop art lining the walls, mismatched wooden chairs and low-slung lightbulbs.

 Upstairs, the more informal bar area will be open for breakfast and lunch and features a series of 1930s Parisian metro booth seats running along the wall on the upper level, blue leather padded diner stools and a beautiful raised rotunda with a Renaissance-inspired mural that depicts an Italian Madonna.

The garden has been inspired by les Jardins Majorelle in Morocco.

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