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Pied à Terre (restaurant)


Pied à Terre (restaurant)


Pied à Terre is a Michelin starred French restaurant in the Fitzrovia district of central London.

The restaurant is co-owned by David Moore who has been involved since the restaurant first opened its doors in 1991, with Richard Neat as the first head chef. Moore has had key roles or contributed to television programmes such as BBC's The Restaurant and Masterchef.

History

Pied à Terre opened in December 1991 with David Moore and Chef Richard Neat at the helm. They were the "new kids on the block", they were RocknRoll,and bagged a Michelin star in their first guide. Moore and Neat had opened on a shoe-string and each year saw them develop the premises, 34 charlotte street, where Moore still treads the boards every service 32 years on.

Pied à Terre was awarded its second Michelin star in 1996, only to have Neat want to move on. Moore invited Tom Aikens, a previous sous chef to Neat to join the team as head chef, Aikens remained head chef with Two stars, until December 1999; when he stepped down to take a stress break and his sous chef Shane Osborn took the reins. Following the Michelin drop in 2000 to One star, Pied à Terre regained the second star in 2003 and maintained it until Osborn's departure in 2011.

Since 2011, Pied à Terre has maintained One Star and is one of Londons' longest standing Michelin starred restaurants.

In 2004, following the regaining of the second star, Pied à Terre suffered a major blow. A faulty part fitted to an ice machine started a fire in the middle of the night. Pied à Terre was closed, the roof was off, the staircase had dropped, a dangerous buildings order was imposed and it took 10 months to rebuild and reopen. Moore kept the whole team on the books and sent them to gain experience elsewhere, re-opening in September 2005 and maintaining the second star in Michelin.

2007 saw Moore open l'Autre Pied, 5/7 Blandford Street, Marylebone, with Osborns' sous chef and young gun Marcus Eaves. L'Autre Pied was to be a local restaurant but it bagged a Michelin star in the first year and maintained it for eight years. In 2011 on the departure of Osborn from Pied à Terre, Eaves returned to Charlotte street and Andy McFadden a previous Pied à Terre chef took over at Blandford Street; Andy maintained the Michelin star, he returned as Head Chef to Charlotte street in 2015/16, always maintaining a Michelin star. McFadden decided to relocate back to his home city of Dublin and take up head chef job at https://gloversalley.com/. Enter new head chef Asimakis Chaniotis.

Asimakis had joined Pied à Terre in 2012 as a chef de Partie (section chef), he worked his way up to Sous chef and spent time working with both Eaves and McFadden, before making a lateral move to be Head Chef at L'Autre Pied.

Moore was being kept busy, Eaves was leaving Charlotte st, McFadden moving from Blandford street to Charlotte Street, Pied à Terre sous chef Chaniotis moving to Blandford street; at the same time maintaining a Michelin star at both ( L'autre Pied dropped in 2016). 2017, an unexpected offer to buy Blandford street by 3 star Michelin chef Simon Rogan, coincided with McFadden's desire to return to Ireland; thus making room for Chaniotis to return to Pied à Terre as Head Chef, where he remains today.

See also

  • List of French restaurants

References


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