28/1/12 - Updated with menu info.
Rumours of a new Mark Hix restaurant have been in the mix for a while (and been on our Coming Soon page for a couple of months) but today official word has come down today about the launch of Hix Belgravia.
Opening on February 1 2012 in the Thompson Belgraves Hotel, just off Sloane Street, it looks like the new restaurant is taking its lead from Hix Soho. As with Soho, there'll also be a new Mark's Bar (the Soho spot just won best bar at this year's Observer Food Monthly awards) as well as offering something unique with its cigar garden adorned by artwork from Mat Collishaw.
The restaurant itself is, like the hotel, being designed by Tara Bernerd who's the person responsible for Aspinall's and Cassis. The menu will be inspired by Hix's travels around the world. As he explains: "We've had fun with the menu and are going ‘off piste’ as I like to say, so if you’re expecting my signature British style then think again.”
So that means you can expect Vietnamese chicken broth, Seronio ham, Loch Fyne oysters or Portland crab rosti, among others, for starters. There's a whole section of "Eggs, pasta and rice" with a particularly enticing creamed polenta with a Burford brown egg and Piedmont truffles. Plenty of steaks and chops are on offer too as well as a "ground rib steak burger...with or without" for £16.75.
Mains include Lobster thermidor baked potato, red sea prawn and pumpkin curry with basmati rice and toasted almonds or rack of Glencoe red deer with sweet and sour sea buckthorn berries. And finally, there's plenty of desserts, ice creams and sorbets to finish everything off - with the Yorkshire rhubarb jelly with bergamot sorbet and the apple fritters with Kingston Black snow sounding pretty good.
And that's not all folks. Hix Belgravia will not be the only Hix restaurant to open in 2012, as the Tramshed Shoreditch venue is still on for later this year.
Hix Belgravia will open at the Belgraves Hotel in Chesham Place, SW1 on February 1.
