Opening on 7 January, Dove will occupy the same spot on Kensington Park Road in Notting Hill and will serve a menu that Boxer says he ‘wants to cook and eat right now’.
Dishes on the launch menu will include snacks of Basque salami; deep fried taleggio and Wiltshire truffle lasagna; and iced red shrimp with a smoked chilli relish; while starters will include fried pizzette with burrata and ham; raw carrot, toasted seeds, and chervil; and winter tomatoes, black olives, and red onion.
Mains meanwhile will include lemon and ricotta dumplings with lobster cream and lime leaf; pork and duck meatball; steamed hake, grilled cabbage, capers and lemon; and roast chicken, fennel, and blood orange.
Also on offer will be a fior di latte soft serve with the option of a caviar supplement.
Snacks will range from £4-£7 with starters £10-£14 and mains from £21 to around £30.
Last week Boxer announced on Instagram that Orasay was to close after five years of trading, describing it as “never a very lucrative business”.
“We specialised in working with a fragile and elusive product with a minuscule shelf life that needs a great deal of labour to prepare, and though we’re busier than we’ve ever been in terms of guests through the door, those guests have considerably less freedom to spend than perhaps they once did,” he said.
“And as such, being unable to raise prices, and being unwilling to work with a cheaper and inferior product, we have decided to imagine a bold new future for ourselves in quite another direction.”
Describing Dove, he says: “It is ‘not re-inventing the wheel, but re-inventing the restaurant for today’s economy.”
Orasay is open until its last service on New Years Eve.
