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Marcus Wareing to open second London restaurant

Marcus Wareing has announced plans to open a second restaurant in London next year. In an interview in today's Guardian, Wareing tells the paper he'll be following his former mentor Gordon Ramsay's lead and putting one of his own people in charge of the new place. 'The key thing for me is I'm not going to leave the Berkeley. 'I'm going to do what a lot of chefs have never done, which is to open other restaurants but stay in the one house. So you can continue coming to the Berkeley and you'll see me cooking there, but what I have got is a fabulous infrastructure to be able to move people on to the next step of their career, and invest in them.'

When Hot Dinners interviewed Marcus last year he told us he was definitely planning more restaurants and spoke of how he'd be putting his own people in charge. 'Working in an environment like GRH I saw the value of someone like Gordon setting up other restaurants with good quality people and not having to be overly involved,' he told us. 'My point is that whatever other restaurant I do, other than Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley, will consist of other people doing it on my behalf. I will only ever cook in one house. I will not spread myself to the point where I’m spread between two restaurants, or three or four.'

It doesn't sound as though the new place will be a fine dining competitor to Wareing's restaurant at The Berkeley. 'I'd be looking for something more relaxed and much bigger - it would be in the middle of something like the the Wolseley and Scotts. A big venue, great food, buzzing atmosphere in an iconic place - something that people want to go and enjoy. Somewhere with a good bar with nice cocktails, where you can be as loud as you want to be, sit down and have a good meal and walk away thinking,"That was great value for money"'

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