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Clove Club founder to open ‘informal’ restaurant
Isaac McHale, the chef and owner of Shoreditch’s The Clove Club, has announced plans to open Bar Valette on Kingsland Road next month.
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As reported in The Standard, McHale has said that Bar Valette, which is due to open in Shoreditch in mid-January, is “inspired by a simple love of Spanish cooking, with French influences”.
“It will be about amazing seafood and game, meat and dairy,” he continued, sharing that ingredients will be sourced from some of the “same producers” as are used for The Clove Club and there “will be some crossover”.
McHale described the food that will be served at Bar Valette as “considered yet informal”, with Erin Jackson Yates, who worked under McHale at The Clove Club, at the stove.
The Clove Club, which is housed in what was once Shoreditch Town Hall, gained its first Michelin Star in 2014 and its second in 2022. In an interview with Great British Chefs, McHale expressed a desire to add a third star to The Clove Club’s accolades, saying that he felt the restaurant was “worth it”.
Wine List Confidential critic Douglas Blyde summed McHale’s cooking up as “masterful, memorable, and well-explained creations”.
However, McHale told The Standard that he does not harbour Michelin Guide ambitions for Bar Valette: “We’re not going for a star, here, we’re going for good times.”
As for the wine list, press material on the forthcoming opening makes references to numerous Spanish wines, including Sherry, Rioja, and drops from the Balearics and Catalonia, as well as bottles from the Rhône Valley and French Pyrenees.
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