TV chef and food writer Gizzi Erskine is making her West End restaurant debut with an 11-week “residency” at the site of one London’s most famous Nineties celebrity venues.
The presenter of Channel 4’s Cook Youself Thin is launching The Nitery on St Martin’s Lane in the dining room previously occupied by fusion cooking pioneer Asia de Cuba, which closed last year after two decades.
Erskine, whose previously ran pop-up Shoreditch vegan burger bar Filth, said her new venture was inspired by Bohemian “niteries” of early 20th century Paris “frequented by the big thinkers, artists and poets of the time.”
She said: "The London food scene is amazing but it’s all got a bit serious, let’s put playful back and all have a bit of a laugh.”
The Nitery will be French, American and English influenced, with dishes including steak tartare with bone marrow dripping on marmite toast with cured egg yolk, and chocolate mousse with Horlicks cream.
It opens on 13 February and will run until 30 April.
