Knight Frank announces today it has secured Langosteria, the Milan-based culinary experience renowned for its seafood menu, as part of a world-class collection of restaurants and bars at The OWO, Whitehall.
The OWO will see the Grade II*-listed Old War Office transformed into the UK’s first Raffles Hotel, 85 Raffles branded residences, nine restaurants, three bars and a Guerlain spa and Pillar wellness centre.
Langosteria will open its first London restaurant at Whitehall Place, a 3,828sq ft restaurant at The OWO with prominent street access and original heritage features.
It will open alongside a new 4,189sq ft flagship rooftop restaurant by Creative Restaurant Group, founded by Japanese chef Endo Kazutoshi and Misha Zelman, which will offer spectacular views across the Capital, and which appeared in the James Bond film ‘Skyfall’. Creative Restaurant Group, which is known for Endo at the Rotunda, a private dining room at the former BBC Television centre at White City, will also open a new sake bar in a 947sq ft ground floor space.
Knight Frank has also secured Café Laperousé, a Parisian restaurant that traces its roots back to 1766, which will open its second outlet in the 5,019sq ft Pavilion unit in the central courtyard. The fit-out is being delivered by Art Director Cordeìlia de Castellane.
The OWO will also include the first London restaurant of Paper Moon, the elegant Italian restaurant also from Milan, which will open in a 3,828sq ft space that fronts directly onto Horse Guards Avenue and facing the Gurkha Soldier Statue.
These independent restaurants will be part of a collection of dining experiences at The OWO which includes fine dining and chef’s table concepts by Mauro Colagreco for Raffles London at The OWO and Pillar Kitchen by wellness experts Pillar.
