The announcement follows the news that the 10-cover restaurant’s chef and co-founder Manu Canales is to take a leave of absence.
Kebab Queen launched in 2019 beneath Le Bab’s Mercer’s Walk restaurant offering intricate, kebab-themed tasting menus.
It is famously a plate-less restaurant, with all dishes served directly on a heated counter with diners instructed to eat with their hands.
Armitage-Mattin’s £120 menu won’t be focused on kebabs (although it is understood there may be some ‘nods’) but Kebab Queen will continue to be a plate-free affair.
Asia-inspired and ‘umami-packed’, dishes will include oysters with green nam jim, kelp, lime leaf kombucha; crab chawamushi, peas, XO sauce; Chinese BBQ lamb, Sichuan lamb skewer with aubergine, sesame soy sauce, chiu chow chilli oil; ayam bakar stuffed chicken wing with chicken fat rice, sambal matah, chicken skin crumb; and brown butter cake, pine nut purée, strawberry sansho cheong, whey ice cream, pickled strawberries.
Armitage-Mattin trained at Gordon Ramsay Group and has worked at a number of top restaurants in Asia including Den in Tokyo and Haku in Hong Kong.
She reached the final of MasterChef: The Professionals in 2020. Last year, she ran a two-month pop-up at Number One Park Lane restaurant at InterContinental London Park Lane.
