The Portman Magazine Autumn 2015
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T H E P O R T M A N Meet Marylebone’s rising rising design star Bags of style: 2015 Autumn The Portman Estate Living on and around Blüthner Piano Centre 6 Baker Street, Portman Square London W1U 3AA Tel: 020 7753 0533 Email: [email protected] Opening Hours Monday – Friday: 10:00 – 18:30 Saturday: 10:00 – 17:00 5 contents 7 28 As told to Sport Ed Templeton , co-founder Rugby World Cup Our of restaurant Carousel, on round-up of the best places running a family business to watch the big games 10 32 Happenings Charity Bake-offs , jazz brunches, Portman Challenge The charity appeals and inaugural fundraising event performing-arts classes puts local teams to the test COVER: LOCAL DESIGNER, ELLA RABENER’S CHILTERN BAG SEE PAGE 20 14 34 Education Summer parties Max Haimendorf , head Alfresco The crowds take teacher, on the aspirational to the streets and squares ethos that powers his school to celebrate the season 18 37 Art Literature Eileen Hogan paints the Marylebone Lives The snow-covered squares of new book that chronicles The Portman is a regular journal about The Portman Estate extraordinary local stories life on and around The Portman Estate Editor Advertising Lorna Davies Caroline Warrick 20 40 020 7259 1051 Fashion Property Deputy Editor [email protected] Ella Rabener on why Trophy offices The hot Cally Squires Marylebone inspires her Portman properties with the Bridget Rodricks Writers 020 7259 1059 luxury handbag designs corporate wow factor Sophia Charalambous [email protected] Annabel Denham Lucy Douglas Katie Thomas 24 42 Victoria Kingdon 020 7250 1053 [email protected] Food Obituary Sub-editor Trishna head chef Rohit Audrey Lewis Colleagues Holly Kyte Send information to Ghai shares his culinary pay tribute to the remarkable The Portman influences and local tips councillor and Lord Mayor Designer Publishing Business Andy Lowe 3 Princes Street London W1B 2LD Publisher 020 7259 1050 44 The Portman Estate www.pubbiz.com Baker Street Quarter Printed in the UK Cleaning up The new plans © Publishing Business afoot to tackle traffic and air Limited 2015 pollution in the area Publishing Business is a member of the Professional Publishers Association and observes the PPA Code of Publishing Practice Printed on ECF (Chlorine free) paper using fibre sourced from well-managed forests. All inks vegetable based. Our printers are certified to ISO 14001 Environmental Management. 7 as told to The unique concept of Carousel – to bring in chefs from around the world on rotation – has been a roaring success in Marylebone. Now, as the restaurant turns one year old, co- founder Ed Templeton tells Cally Squires how this family-run business all came together Keeping it in the family AUGUST WAS the first anniversary of It gives Londoners a chance to eat their food the restaurant opening, so we put on without getting on a plane. So it was more by a little party for locals and loyal good fortune than design that we ended up here, customers to celebrate. but we’re now very settled and the idea of ever There are four of us, all cousins, who started having to leave Marylebone is gut-wrenching. the restaurant. We had done pop-ups before in We have good relationships with nearby “places like Westbourne Grove, Clerkenwell and stores. For example, Ortigia supplies our hand Pimlico Gardens – basically all over the place. We soap and we often pop to Monocle for a coffee wanted a permanent site where we could have an and a chat with the guys there. Chiltern Firehouse office, a kitchen and a place to put on events. We has been really great; some of the chefs who have looked at some railway arches in East London, done residencies here at Carousel have worked but never in our wildest dreams did we think we’d with Nuno Mendes in the past. The Firehouse has end up in a place like this in Marylebone. been really generous by lending us their We heard about the unit in Blandford Street equipment – we’ll occasionally pop over to use through a friend of a friend at a wedding. The their vacuum packer, a bit like you would knock space was an empty shell and we fell in love with on the neighbour’s door for a cup of sugar! it immediately. Our ideas quickly accelerated I used to work in Marylebone at AMV, the towards the concept of Carousel, which is to advertising agency, so I was familiar with the area bring chefs from around the world to Marylebone. before we started Carousel. Anna was in TV 8 as told to ICONIC HOTELS IN ICONIC PLACES THE FOUR TEMPLETON COUSINS BEHIND CAROUSEL: WILL, ANNA, OLLIE AND ED “The concept is to bring chefs from around the world to production, Will was in a sales job that he really didn’t like and Ollie has always been a chef. The Marylebone. It gives Londoners four of us all bring something different to the a chance to eat their food table, but we all love food and drink, and getting people together to have a party. without getting on a plane” We work together very collaboratively in terms of the direction we want to go in creatively, but within that we all have our own responsibilities. I look after the front of house, Ollie looks after the in Stockholm – he is such a great guy and really kitchen, Anna looks after the private events, like up for getting involved. His concept is to do the art exhibitions we hold upstairs, and Will looks amazing stuff with vegetables, which opened my after the operations and finances. eyes to how much you can do with just one Working with family has its challenges, but the simple piece of produce, like a beetroot. nice thing is you can kiss and make up the next The dinner service, which is Tuesday to day and it’s all forgotten. Our dads are identical Saturday, is almost exclusively advanced twins and we grew up down the road from one bookings – which is the opposite of what most another. As a result of that close upbringing we restaurants seem to be doing in London! But as have very similar views on the things we like and we know who is coming, it means there is very how the business should be run. So any little food wastage, which is much more disagreements are never fundamental. environmentally sound. Lunch, however, is My days vary quite a lot, which is the nice open to walk-ins as well as reservations. thing about this job. I look after things like the We have an idea for a book in the pipeline, but newsletters and social media, so there is a lot of in the shorter term we are looking to bring Mile office-based work that comes with that. I might High, one of the pop-up dinner events that we’ve also be meeting new suppliers, talking to new run in the past, back to London as a permanent chefs who are coming in or tasting wines. I’m not themed bar and restaurant. But as far as Carousel on the floor every night, but I usually do a couple goes, we think it is a concept that could of shifts per week, which is almost the aspect of translate quite well internationally, so in the job I like the most! a couple of years we might even look When we started we approached chefs we into opening a second site in New York. liked, but as we’ve got more established chefs have started coming to us, which is lovely. My Carousel, 71 Blandford Street favourite so far has been Henrik [Norén] from Gro www.carousel-london.com ” LONDON +44 20 7493 4545 DORCHESTERCOLLECTION.COM I I 10 happenings Afternoon tea with a twist A taste of the Basque Country THE ARCH London hotel is offering a unique take on the BASQUE RESTAURANT Lurra will open romesco sauce and ceps with egg yolk. traditional afternoon tea service. The hotel’s new street-food- on September 2, across the road from The new restaurant’s signature dish inspired tea menu (from £29) banishes scones and finger sister restaurant Donostia. It will is a whole grilled turbot cooked over sandwiches. Replacing them are delicious bites from specialise in cooking on wood and wood in a fish basket, inspired by cuisines around the world, including mini beef burgers in charcoal grills, as is the traditional Restaurante Elkano, located on the brioche buns, chicken satay with peanut sauce, Scotch method in the Basque region. outskirts of San Sebastián. eggs, coffee éclairs and a lemon and mango rice pudding. The concept is large sharing plates, The hotel’s general manager Michael Voigt explains: like cod tongues cooked three ways, red Lurra, 9 Seymour Place “We wanted to create an afternoon tea that is exciting and mullet, baby octopus, leeks with www.lurra.co.uk different, yet still gives people a quintessential taste of the best of modern London.” The Arch London, 50 Great Cumberland Place T: 020 7724 4700, www.thearchlondon.com A show of Heads ARTISTS NIGEL LANGFORD and Lizzie Thurman are presenting their work at the A&D Gallery on Chiltern Street. The Heads exhibition will run from September 21–26. Langford is an artist and interior designer who has lived on Homer Street for over 30 years. Thurman met Langford when they were students together at Central Saint Martins in the 1980s. The duo lived as flatmates for seven years in Langford’s house in Homer Street.