Bellanger will be a classic Grand Café ~ Brasserie with a relaxed, all-day brasserie menu, from breakfast through to dinner, that displays a distinct nod to the Alsatian roots of the original Parisian brasseries. It will feature typical dishes such as choucroute, baeckoff and a range of tartes flambées, soups, salads, seafood, plats du jour and a number of sharing dishes.
The wine list will be principally French-based, with a focus on the wines of North Eastern France and the border region with Germany. A notable selection of wines by the glass will be served and traditional dark and blonde Alsace-Lorraine beers will be served on tap, including a range of monastic beers.
Interiors
Interiors will be by Shayne Brady of Brady Williams: the restaurant has been designed to create three architecturally resolved rooms, all in a light, handsome, Belle Époque style.
The Front Room features large, fold-back windows looking out onto the Green. A long bar, with high bar stool seating and standing room, leads to the intimate, carpeted Upper Room.
Warm, glossy wood panelling, bevelled mirror detailing, specifically sourced antique wall lamps and chandeliers, ornate plaster work with customised motif and beading figure throughout, with woven blue banquettes and traditional rush-backed seating.
Located at Islington Green near the Angel in North London, Bellanger will open this autumn with 195 covers, plus 24 on the terrace, under General Manager, Claire O’Sullivan and Head Chef, Lee Ward.
Bellanger, 9 Islington Green, London N1 8DU
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About Corbin & King
Chris Corbin and Jeremy King have been business partners for over thirty years and in that time have developed, owned and managed some of London’s most respected, revered and successful restaurants.
In 2003, they opened what was considered to be London’s first Grand Café, The Wolseley in Piccadilly, voted Restaurant of the Decade in 2013 by popular vote at Taste of London, and regularly topping the lists as London’s favourite restaurant in the Zagat and Hardens guides. In 2011, they opened The Delaunay, a Grand Café with a mittel-European slant, located on the corner of Aldwych and Drury Lane. The adjacent Counter at The Delaunay is a relaxed café and take-away.
In June 2012, they opened the 240-seat, spectacular Art Deco Brasserie Zédel just off Piccadilly Circus in London’s Soho, serving classic French brasserie food at remarkably low prices. The venue also houses the Bar Américain, ZL Café and a cabaret space, The Crazy Coqs. 2012 ended with the opening of Colbert, an informal neighbourhood brasserie on Sloane Square in Chelsea.
2014 saw the change of company name from Rex Restaurant Associates to Corbin & King; the opening of Fischer’s, an informal, neighbourhood café and konditorei evocative of Vienna in the early 20th century on Marylebone High Street, and the opening of their first hotel, the 73-room Beaumont in Mayfair.
Prior to launching Rex Restaurant Associates, Corbin and King owned and managed some of London’s most famous restaurants, including Le Caprice (opened 1981), The Ivy (1990) which consistently topped the Zagat and Hardens Guides as the most popular restaurant in London, and J Sheekey (1998), all as part of Caprice Holdings, which they sold in 2000, staying on as directors until 2002.
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