Roganic and StreetXO have permanently closed 21st December, 2020 by Lucy Shaw
London has two more high profile restaurants, as Simon Rogan’s Roganic and StreetXO, the London outpost of Spanish chef David Muñoz, have both permanently closed.
Simon Rogan’s seasonally focused Roganic in Marylebone has permanently closed
As reported by
Eater London, the Michelin-starred Roganic will not reopen its doors on Blandford Street in Marylebone, but it may not be the end of the line for the seasonally focused site, as Rogan is hoping to relocate the restaurant in the future.
Roganic first opened as a pop-up in Marylebone in 2011 to give Londoners a taste of Rogan’s two Michelin-starred farm-to-table flagship L’Enclume in Cumbria. Roganic blazed brightly on Blandford Street for two years before Rogan went on to head up Fera at Claridge’s after Gordon Ramsay left the building.
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Spanish newspaper Expansion reports that Munoz has started a voluntary process of insolvency and liquidation of the Mayfair restaurant, which launched at the tail end of 2016, citing issue with Brexit as well as Coronavirus for the reasons behind the decision.
StreetXO closed in March when England went into its first national lockdown and is now listed as being permanently closed.
Muñoz, who runs multi Michelin starred restaurants in Spain including DiverXO in Madrid’s Tetuán district, is known for his irreverent and avant-garde style of cooking as well as his bold look. The chef is widely credited with putting the Spanish capital back on the gastronomic map in terms of its high-end restaurants.
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Inside the newly designed London home of chef Jason Atherton
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London-based interdisciplinary studio Rosendale Design is an expert in creating award-winning, chef-led, fine dining restaurant and hospitality interiors, with spaces such as King’s Social, Roux at Parliament Square and Bryn at Somerset House under its belt. So when the practice was invited by celebrated chef Jason Atherton to refresh his private London home, the project must have felt like both an exciting new challenge, and slightly familiar territory. Especially as the brief – perhaps unsurprisingly – placed a focus on the kitchen area.
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The Spectator, however, I spent much of 2020 not reviewing restaurants but praying for them. I lost my spite and my pleasure this year.
It is easy in times of happiness to tease restaurants. I never got tired of mocking the restaurant-palaces of the rich with their full-size ornamental trees (Le Louis XV – Alain Ducasse, Monaco), their chairs for bags (if your bag is worth £5,000, why not?) their tanks of coloured fish (Sexy Fish, Berkeley Square) and their evident surprise when you don’t order a £200 bottle to go with a £100 duck (Imperial Treasure of St Jame
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