Third restaurant for Arbutus team

Michelin-starred Arbutus and Wild Honey are set to welcome a sister restaurant later this year, as owners Anthony Demetre and Will Smith confirmed the acquisition of a new site near London’s Covent Garden.

The pair have taken on a 5000 sq ft property on William IV Street, which seems to have become a regular haunt for most of the UK wine trade since Terroirs opened there just over a year ago.

Although the name of this new restaurant has yet to be revealed, the plan is for a European-style brasserie with around 150 covers spread over two floors.

Compared with its Michelin-starred siblings in Soho and Mayfair, this promises to be a more informal affair, offering another welcome alternative to the tourist-trap chains around Covent Garden.

Sure to attract plenty of attention in its own right, at last there’ll be an obvious place for the Terroirs overflow to head for.

Gabriel Savage, 09.02.2010