Jeremy King on bringing Le Caprice back to life
The IndependentRestaurateur Jeremy King tells me customers have been moved to tears upon entering Arlington, his first restaurant since departing Corbin & King, very much an echo of the glamorous Le Caprice that stood in this same spot in St James’s for so many years before. open image in gallery Though founded in 1947, the Eighties and Nineties were Le Caprice’s heyday I was told not so long ago that Paul Raymond used to live in the flat above and on the day Princess Margaret died he came down in a dressing gown and hairnet, shouting that the diners should “have some f***ing respect and keep it down”. open image in gallery Journalists Anne Diamond and Gordon Honeycombe outside the eatery “I realised just how deep the feelings ran for Le Caprice,” King says. open image in gallery Rik Mayall outside the restaurant in the early 1980s “It is important to have good food, made well and with good ingredients, and to have a restaurant where people can come in and spend a bit, or can spend much more,” says King.
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