Monday Bulletin: Orasay to relaunch next year and Adam Byatt’s new restaurant

Catch up on the latest industry news stories of the week from the CODE Bulletin

Orasay

Notting Hill restaurant Orasay is to close on New Year’s Eve. Chef-founder Jackson Boxer said he plans to relaunch the space as a new, more casual restaurant next year, moving away from a seafood-led menu focusing on catch from UK day boats. Boxer conceded Orasay, which opened in 2019 to solid reviews, was ‘never a very lucrative business’. He said: ‘We specialised in working with a fragile and elusive product that needs a great deal of labour to prepare, and though we’re busier than we’ve ever been in terms of guests through the door, those guests have considerably less freedom to spend than perhaps they once did, and as such, being unable to raise prices, and being unwilling to work with a cheaper and inferior product, we have decided to imagine a bold new future for ourselves in quite another direction.’ No details yet on what the new restaurant will look like, though Boxer said he has a good sense of what it will be and added he’s ‘very excited to return to Notting Hill.’

Adam Byatt

The chef Adam Byatt has revealed plans for a neighbourhood restaurant next to Fulham Football Club. Brasserie Constance will open in spring 2025 on the first floor of the new Fulham Pier development behind Craven Cottage, with a British menu based around ‘approachable, seasonal dishes’. Also on the way is a riverside cocktail bar and small plates venue called Flo. Byatt, whose lauded Clapham restaurant Trinity turns 20 in 2026, said of the project: ‘Having lived in Fulham for several years during my early career, it is an exciting full-circle moment to be bringing Brasserie Constance to life within such a landmark destination. Fulham Pier offers the perfect setting to showcase the very best of British dining, surrounded by stunning views of the Thames. I look forward to welcoming guests to this new space in 2025.’

Small Plates

• A new pub and Basque restaurant will open in Belgravia next year, Hot Dinners reports. On the ground floor at the Prince Arthur, dishes from Spanish chef Adam Iglesias (formerly Alameda, Brat, Barrafina), and in the basement, a ‘luxe interpretation of a modern tavern’ in partnership with the London Caviar Company. Apparently there’ll be Guinness through the same tap system you find in Ireland (clearly they haven’t got the Murphy’s memo) and Jeremy Clarkson’s Hawkstone beer.
   
• Good news for American East Coast pizza fans: St Albans favourite Gracey’s, one of the UK’s first New Haven-style pizzerias in the UK, is popping up at Battersea’ Arcade Food Hall until December 31. It follows a London debut in May where the team took on a short-term residency at Terry’s. It can’t be long before we see a permanent site…
   
• Talking of Terry’s, Austin Yardley is getting together with Soho bar Three Sheets on Wednesday December 11 to put on a night of live music, oysters, champagne and dirty martinis. Tickets are £25 and include a glass of fizz and half a dozen oysters. One too many? Just return to Terry’s on Thursday morning for one of the best bacon sandwiches in town.
   
• The team behind Firebird in Soho, Madina Kazhimova and Anna Dolgushina, will open Noisy Oyster near Shoreditch station next year. It sounds very on trend: mini martinis, oysters, crudo, and ‘vegetable-forward’ small plates.
  

• Out in April, the first Roti King cookbook from chef-founder Sugen Gopal. Described as an ‘epic celebration of Malaysian cuisine’, the book charts the restaurant’s journey from roadside cafe in Buntong, Ipoh, to burgeoning London group. Recipes include dal, nasi lemak with fried chicken, and roti canai.
   

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