In the London restaurant world, you're usually only as good as your backers and Tom Aikens appears to have landed himself shiny new financial angels in the form of Turkey company, The Istanbul Doors Restaurant Group.
This of itself, probably doesn't mean that much to the average London restaurant goer. But in practical terms it does mean Aikens has some new cash to fling around and the first of his restasurants to feel that benefit will be his eponymous restaurant on Chelsea's Elystan Street. The restaurant will close in June for two to three month and reopen 'with a new more informal menu and service'.
It also looks as though the group will focus on expanding the Tom's Kitchen brand which currently has just two sites - on Cale Street in Chelesea and at Somerset House.
