Big Mamma heads to Kensington for first West London restaurant

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French-owned Italian restaurant group Big Mamma is to launch its first West London location early next year on Kensington High Street.

Jacuzzi will be the group's fourth London site and have 170 covers spread over four floors.

Housed in a former bank, the 4,000sq ft space will include a botanical mezzanine with retractable glass ceiling; alabaster walls; and stucco ceilings. 

The basement level will feature the group's first 'disco toilet', complete with glitter ball and a 'cove of mirrors'.

Jacuzzi's menu will feature a typically indulgent selection of Italian dishes and include starters of cured ham from Onesto Ghiradi served with gnocchi fritti; burrata with fresh seasonal truffle; and pizzette topped with truffle, caviar and bottarga.

Mains, meanwhile, will feature lobster risotto with half lobster, clams, red gurnard and cuttlefish; and a sharing plate of truffle pasta with fresh black truffle, truffle cream and parmigiano foam, which is prepared tableside in a 4kg wheel of pecorino.

Desserts will include a 'decadent' chocolate fondue for two made with half a kilo of Valrhona chocolate.

Big Mamma, which is run by Tigrane Seydoux and Victor Lugger, launched in the capital in early 2019 with the opening of the 172-cover Gloria in Shoreditch. This was followed up with the opening of 300-cover Circolo Popolare in Fitzrovia’s Rathbone Place, which also opened in 2019; and Ave Mario, which opened in Covent Garden last summer. 

The group also runs pizza delivery concept Napoli Gang, which has a single site in Ladbroke Grove.