“This restaurant is a very personal thing for me – it’s a showcase of me and my life on the plate and everything I love, from the artwork on the walls to the cutlery. I love collaborating with producers, suppliers, designers, and artists and seeing everything coming together to create something special that we can share with our guests. I also feel very strongly about reducing the lmost 200,000 tons of food waste that’s produced by the UK restaurant industry each year. We grow much of our own produce for the restaurant, and any food waste or surplus food is used – either as compost or at my sustainable deli, Bean & Wheat. We need to see more chefs speaking out against food waste, encouraging and educating people on how we can all do our part to make eating out more sustainable.”
Posh potato; chicken butter; and salt-baked celeriac (a dish inspired by Handling’s vegetarian mother that showcases all five flavour profiles – sweet, salty, umami, sour, bitter).
Ever so slightly more formal than its sister restaurant, The Frog Hoxton, Adam’s flagship site in Covent Garden is a real smash hit. Wonderfully assured cocktails get you in the mood, deft and unusual mouthfuls begin to pluck at your gut-strings, Handling’s naturally inquisitive and outgoing personality get you in their grip, and you’re on a roller-coaster ride of a dinner that is unlike anything else around.
Adam Handling’s flagship restaurant in Covent Garden