New Restaurant Opening: Josephine
After opening Socca this summer and Brooklands last Autumn, he’s now about to kick off 2024 with a new restaurant opening: Josephine.
The idea is for it to be a Lyonnaise-style brasserie, inspired largely by Claude Bosi’s own upbringing in Lyon. His parents had a restaurant there, where he practically grew up in the kitchen. It’s even named after his grandma. And – not to put too much pressure on the place – but his other Lyonnaise-style restaurant, Claude Bosi at Bibendum, has a pair of Michelin Stars. So, what we’re basically saying here, is that this particular Frenchman knows how to run this particular kind of French restaurant quite well.
When it opens in March, down on the Fulham Road where it’ll park itself around the corner from Gordon Ramsay’s Park Walk restaurant. It’ll be moving into a space that used to be a fancy deli (Colette, for anyone who went) so it’s not exactly huge, but that’ll hopefully make it all the more cosily intimate.
New restaurant opening: Josephine menu’s currently under wraps, but anyone who has been to the bouchons of Lyon can attest to the fact that butter is basically a food group there, the salad comes with bacon, they’ve basically turned making sausages into an art form, and they’re not afraid to use parts of the animal that most people don’t even know exist. It’s typically hearty, meat-heavy, and the wine flows like the River Rhône. He’ll also be bringing back is the ‘meter wine’, in which you only pay for what you drink on the night.
The Bosis have brought in the very best team for this new opening including GM Will Smith who you may recognise from his time at Arbutus and Wild Honey. “This restaurant is a very personal project for us,” Bosi says, “an ode to my grandmother and the traditional Bouchons of Lyon that have always held a special place in our hearts.”
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