Set to make her debut on the London restaurant scene, chef, author and BBC Masterchef: The Professionals finalist Marianne Lumb is to open a self-titled restaurant ‘Marianne’, on Chepstow Road in West London, W2 in September 2013.
Small but perfectly formed
‘Marianne’ will draw upon the chef’s extensive experience as a private chef and will cater for just 14 covers – a total of five tables. It will be the smallest restaurant of its type to open in London, mirroring the trend for small but perfectly formed fine-dining restaurants, as seen in Paris and New York. The intimate scale of the operation will allow Marianne to focus on precisely crafted perfect plates of her beautiful seasonally led food.
The restaurant will occupy a prominent corner site at the northern end of Chepstow Road, adjacent to a quiet mews, and close to The Cow pub. Design by Godrich Interiors will reflect Marianne’s vision of having a personal chef in the dining room of one’s own home. Generously proportioned banquettes, vintage wall lights and a soft colour palette will offer a high level of comfort that will enhance this intimate dining experience.
Marianne Lumb
Marianne comes from a butcher’s family in Leicestershire, she completed restaurant training at the Michelin star restaurant Gravetye Manor (1*) and has gained experience at The River Café (1*) and Le Gavroche (2*). Marianne has worked internationally as a private chef for A-list celebrities, actors, musicians and politicians, work which took her all over the world from The Hamptons to the Côte d’Azur and Australia.
In 2009 Marianne Lumb made it to the final three of the BBC’s BAFTA Award- winning cookery show MasterChef: The Professionals. In the very month that the show aired, Marianne’s first book ‘Kitchen Knife Skills’ (Quarto) was published to great success.
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