The Drunken Butler restaurant London

What happens when you mix French, Persian and Korean cuisine, and throw in a chef with a love of fermenting? The Drunken Butler, a brand new restaurant in Clerkenwell from the former head chef of The Chancery.

It’ll be the first solo project from highly international chef Yuma Hashemi, who’ll be bringing together experience gleaned not only in his hometown of Berlin, but in Sweden, Portugal, Bordeaux, Chicago and San Francisco, until eventually landing in London’s The Chancery. The chef has now settled on Rosebery Avenue for his new venture, where he will be exploring such worldwide flavours with much emphasis on through fermenting, smoking, salting and pickling.

Stand out dishes are likely to include pickled oysters with rose harissa kimchi, salt-pickled vegetables with a Persian style herb pancake called coucou sabzi. Other creative dishes may include meadowsweet infused Bouillabaisse and mead sorbet with sorrel, ginger and lime

Prices will range from around £5 for a sharing dish up to £25 for larger plates, and there’s plans for a £40 tasting menu which will span five courses.

Caffeine junkies will also be pleased to know that speciality coffee will play a central role in the restaurant.

The restaurant will be small, seating only 30, with a large open kitchen.

Price: Dinner for two including drinks: £80.00+ 5 course tasting menu £40.00 per head
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