Gus Evans, who runs the Butcher’s Hook pub in Fulham, west London, has secured his second site in Hammersmith.
Evans is to covert the former Thatched House into the Butcher’s Hook Ravenscourt Park, which is due to open on 11 August.
The new pub will focus on British dishes using quality seasonal ingredients.
Originally from New Zealand, Evans’ early career included stints running Deals in Chelsea Harbour and the Big Easy on the King’s Road in the early 1990s, before becoming operations director at Adam and Kate Robinson’s group of restaurants: the Bollo gastropub in Acton, the Chiswick restaurant and the Salt House in St John’s Wood.
In 2003 he was appointed restaurant development manager at the Hoxton Apprentice, the Government-sponsored training restaurant, and in 2005 he went on to set up the Butcher’s Hook.
