By Majella Taylor, New Openings Editor, H&C News: The Barley Mow Mayfair launched by Cubitt House.
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Chef Ben Tish continues his culinary relationship as Chef Director at Cubitt House with the launch of The Barley Mow, a 19th century Grade II listed pub and restaurant in the heart of Mayfair. The ground floor pub will open from 30 September, and the restaurant from 10 October for dinner (lunch to follow from 17 October).
The modern pub group Cubitt House acquired the impressive corner site in Duke Street, Mayfair, earlier this year, and have invested in a full refurbishment and restoration of the property. The pub will retain its pub credentials by serving accessibly priced pub fare and a fine selection of ales and lagers. The first floor restaurant – seating 45 – will feature a contemporary clubby environment with an impressive open bar showcasing a carvery as well as a Neal’s Yard cheese display.
Ben Tish enthused: “The food will be rooted in the classics, cooked well and presented simply – taking its inspiration from Britain with a little bit of France. Super seasonal, using British produce as much as we can and where it’s best.”
Ben and Head Chef Chris Fordham-Smith (previously at the Great Norther Hotel and The Westbury) have devised a restaurant menu that showcases British classics, in collaboration with their favoured UK suppliers. Starters will be £12-£18, main courses £19-£42, and desserts £9.75-£12. Highlights include:
Baked squash, spelt, sage & Ticklemore salad
Soused mackerel, fennel, cucumber & crème fraiche
The Barley Mow seafood salad
Steamed cockles with parsley butter
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Roasted celeriac, beetroot & lentil cottage pie
Wild sea bass, pumpkin, chanterelles, brown butter
Free range chicken (1/2 or whole), sage & truffle butter
Native breed beef pie & mash, parsley sauce
Daily Roasts from the Carvery
(Silver-served at the table, with appropriate accompaniments)
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Cambridge burnt cream
Poire Belle Hélène
Sticky toffee pudding, salted caramel sauce & Ivy House clotted cream
The pub’s more casual food offering will comprise Haggis Scotch egg with whisky mayonnaise; Sausage roll with homemade brown sauce; Pulled beef fritters with anchovy & pickled walnut; Battered pollock & chips with mushy peas; Seasonal oysters; and Angus beef rump with watercress & shoestring fries. Snack will be £4.50-£13, and main plates from £19.50.
The interiors have been designed by Georgie Pearman, who wanted to maintain a pub feel to the entire property. Design touches include wooden panelling, antiques collected from various dealers, shops and markets complemented by beautiful velvet-covered banquettes. The ground floor retains the original back bar from the 1800s, and a striking, new earthy brown marble bar top matched with vintage oils. Wherever possible, focus is given to working with British manufacturers and artisans.
Lara Rogers will be General Manager, capitalising on her local address book following previously working at the nearby Guinea Grill alongside her father, Oisín Rogers. The Restaurant Manager will be Michael McGivern, who has come from The Princess Royal, and prior to that at the Pantechnicon and with Corbin & King (at Brasserie Zedel and the Colony Grill at The Beaumont).
Full address: 82 Duke Street, Mayfair, London W1K 6JG
Reservations: 020-4553 1414
Website: www.barleymowmayfair.co.uk
Instagram: @thebarleymowmayfair
Opening hours: Pub – Monday-Saturday Noon-11pm, Sunday Noon-10.30 pm
Restaurant – Daily dinner from 10 October 5pm-9.30pm; lunch from 17 October Noon-3pm
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