The historic Kensington restaurant Maggie Jones’s, once the favoured haunt of Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon, has reopened after two years.
Maggie Jones’s closed in September 2023 after an electrical fire. It was only the second time the restaurant had closed in 60 years of service, the first being during the Covid pandemic.
When it launched as Nan’s Kitchen in 1964, the place quickly earned a solid reputation among west Londoners and soon caught the attention of various royals.
Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon would book under the name “Maggie Jones’s” and sit at their favoured cosy corner booth to dine on chicken and artichoke pie. The restaurant was renamed in the alias’ honour in the 1970s.
Refreshed and reopened, Maggie Jones’s remains something of a ski chalet-like time capsule; an eccentric, distinctly west London sort of place with scrubbed pine tables, an old wooden floor and walls adorned with various artefacts and ornaments.
Now refreshed and reopened, the menu remains the preserve of old-time British cooking thanks to head chef Martin Anteria Silva.
On the a la carte now are dishes such as fish pie, Dover sole with butter and lemon, roast lamb with garlic and rosemary, calf’s liver and bacon, and steak and kidney pie.
Set menus return, with two courses now at £36.95 and three for £43.95, while big Sunday lunches and game during shooting season also remain.
6 Old Court Place, off Kensington Church Street, London W8 4PL, maggie-jones.co.uk
