Stevie Parle to open restaurant in London's West End in 2024

Stevie Parle will open a restaurant in the capital next summer.

The chef announced the news in a statement to the press but kept further details under wraps.

"I'm opening a big new restaurant in the West End next year," Parle said.

"I'm not going to tell you the name, the concept, who my amazing new partners are or what we'll be cooking but it'll be something special for sure and it should be open by the summer. Or it had better be.

He added: "I've created new partnerships with forward thinking farmers and growers all over the country. We have carefully-grown regenerative produce waiting for us to fire up the wood ovens."

Parle opened his first restaurant, Dock Kitchen, at London's Portobello Dock in 2009 when he was just 24 years old. It traded for eight years until it closed in 2017.

The chef's other restaurant projects have included Craft London, Rotorino and Sardine, all of which have since closed.

Parle returned to Portobello Dock to open the Joy restaurant, retail space and music venue with designer Tom Dixon during the pandemic in 2020. He had hoped to relaunch the project this year but said in February the landlord had decided to take the space in a different direction.

The chef is also behind the Pastaio pasta restaurant group, which has a site in Soho.