Kurt Zdesar, co-founder of Ping Pong and former head of Nobu in Europe, has secured a further three London restaurant sites that will be developed as distinctly separate concepts.
Zdesar told M&C Report the new sites - at Mortimer Street, Chiltern Street and Wimpole Street - are currently at the development stage with one still under construction so it will be a few months before details are finalised for the concepts but they will have individual identities.
“I don’t believe in repeating concepts. My idea is to create 10 individual concepts in London and then introduce them to other cities,” he told M&C Report.
“Getting sites in London can prove to be extremely difficult. These four just happened to come up at the same time.”
All attention is currently focused on the opening of his second London restaurant Bouillabaisse, which will open on Mill Street, just off London’s Oxford Street serving fish inspired by coastal specialties from around the world.
The 80-cover restaurant on the former Bo London site will be split over two floors and feature a chef’s table and an open kitchen on the lower ground floor.
Bouillabaisse will join Chotto Matte, which Zdesar opened in 2013 in Soho as a fusion of traditional and modern Japanese cuisine.
