When ‘King of the Club’ Richard Caring didn’t reopen his London dining room Le Caprice after the coronavirus lockdown, rival restaurateur Jeremy King decided to open a restaurant just down the road from The Ritz. I thought I had pulled off a clever trick to break the lease on this particular building. .
But now Caring plans to tease King by reopening Le Caprice in a new location. And his restaurant will be called Le Caprice, since Caring still owns the name.
Caring confirms it is in talks to reopen Le Caprice at Chancery Rosewood, a £1 billion redevelopment of the former US embassy building in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, as a hotel and leisure venue. did. The hotel is owned by Qatar Dial and is scheduled to open next year.
“It’s going to be interesting to see who goes to Le Caprice and who goes to the old ‘Caprice,'” a source told me.
When Le Caprice was located at 20 Arlington Street, Princess Diana was one of its regular customers.
King, who ran Le Caprice himself from 1981 to 2005 before selling it to Caring, will call his restaurant Arlington. When Le Caprice opens later this year, Le Caprice’s popular manager Jesús Adorno will also be joining the team. Classic dishes such as Bang Bang Chicken, Salmon Fish Cake and Steak Tartare return to the menu.
King, who was ousted from his restaurant group Corbin & King last year, says, “One of the things we want to avoid is a napkin war.”there is enough space [both of] we. Caring does a particularly good job with the demographic he’s addressing, and I embrace another demographic. ”
Mr Caring, who also owns The Ivy, J. Sheekey, Scotts and Annabel’s, refuses to get drawn into a sordid battle with Mr King over “demographics”. “I wish him the best,” Caring generously told me.
Heartbroken Helen sells her country mountain
When Helen Skelton and her husband, rugby player Richie Myler, bought the family home in 2015, the Countryfile presenter said it made her “heart sing”.
Now she may be happy to see the other side of the York Knights scrum-half after he was sent off when his third child was four months old.
It can be revealed that the former couple have accepted an offer on a four-bedroom West Yorkshire home they put on the market for £895,000 last summer.
Ms Skelton, 40, announced her separation in 2022 and has returned to her parents’ dairy farm in Cumbria, with a group of family and friends helping to raise her children.
Myler, 33, has become a father for the fourth time with his new girlfriend Stephanie Thirkill, 33. She is the daughter of former Miler rugby club Leeds Rhinos chairman Andrew Thirkill.
Alan Sugar is considering creating an all-star version of The Apprentice to mark the 20th anniversary of the hit BBC business show, but some former contestants may be too old to compete again. He claims that he cannot.
Lord Sugar, 76, told me: “What I want to do, and of course the decision is firmly with the BBC, is that this is the 20th year of The Apprentice and it’s something very special.”
The new series starts tonight on BBC One. He added of potential contestants: [to the first series]Saira Khan, who lost to Tim — dare I say, she’d bite my head off with this — she might be a little too old now.
Broadcaster Khan, who won second place in 2005, is 53 years old.
Happy Valley star James Norton, who plays former Island Records boss Chris Blackwell in the Bob Marley biopic One Love, is now keen to return to the West Indies. There is.
“Right now I just want to make a movie in Jamaica,” lamented the 38-year-old actor, who attended the premiere at London’s BFI Southbank. “Filming in Jamaica brought Bob’s message of unity to life.
“We had a very warm and open-hearted welcome on set. When Jamaican actors came to London, we were desperate to host them, and when we came to Jamaica, Every night, they were like, “Where do you want to eat?” Let’s go to the beach on our day off. ”
Not many people can say they gave pop legend David Bowie a carpet.
Author Michael Moorcock, an icon of London’s underground scene in the 1960s and 1970s who also played in the band Hawkwind, says: “Before he became famous, David Bowie was becoming very mean.” “We once rolled David Bowie on the carpet because of that.”
“It was the home of an aristocratic daughter in Chelsea, who, like us, enjoyed “rough business.” We laid him down on the carpet and curled up in it. He didn’t seem to care…”
Regal Chaplin’s girl takes off her mask at an Italian ball
Charlie Chaplin was known for his trademark hat and cane, but his granddaughter prefers theatrics in Venetian costume.
Entrepreneur Kyra, 41, went unnoticed at Florence’s Carnival grand ball at Palazzo Vecchio.
Sticking to the “Queen of the Palace” theme, her elaborate costumes by designer Antonia Sauter are based on Veronica Franco, the 16th century Venetian “It Girl.”
“With the corset and the headdress, you can really get into the character. You don’t have to bend over and have to eat straight, so you feel regal,” Keira told me. “Dinner is so much fun because everyone is wearing masks. You can bump into your friends and you don’t know who it is.”