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This week s most-read stories include the launch of Harrods Social by Jason Atherton, Byron s owner snapping up Mother Clucker, chef Chet Sharma opening JKS-backed Bibi in Mayfair, and the failed challenge to the Government s decision to delay the reopening of indoor hospitality.
- Jason Atherton is opening a restaurant within luxury department store Harrods. Called
Harrods Social by Jason Atherton, the large 114-seat restaurant (60 under current Covid restrictions) will be located on the lower ground floor of the department store and will serve British cuisine in a ‘relaxed yet elegant setting’. Atherton says he has designed the menu to reflect Harrods’ retail food offering by ‘showcasing the finest of British produce and seasonal ingredients’.
Fried chicken brand Mother Clucker has been acquired by Byron owner Famously Proper.
The deal will see the “unique identity and secret recipe” of Mother Clucker remain the same as it expands under the new ownership, but founders Ross Curnow and Brittney Bean are set to leave the business.
The pair founded Mother Clucker in a converted US Army ambulance in 2013 and now operate sites in Clerkenwell and Stanstead Airport alongside numerous street food pitches in London and a number of Deliveroo Editions sites.
The irreverently positioned brand specialises in tea brined, buttermilk soaked, twice battered fried chicken and was in the first wave of higher quality chicken players.