Opening date confirmed for Shoreditch restaurant BRAT

A restaurant drawing influence from its owner’s Welsh heritage and love of northern Spanish cuisine is opening in Shoreditch.

BRAT is the debut restaurant from Tomos Parry, formerly of Mayfair eatery Kitty Fisher’s.

Launching on Redchurch Street next month, the venue will offer a menu favouring seasonal British produce cooked on an open fire wood grill.

The name is a colloquial term for turbot, the flatfish found in the Northern Atlantic, Baltic and Mediterranean seas.

Tomos got the idea for BRAT after visiting Getaria, a coastal town in the Basque country of Spain famous for its barbecues. His experience with restaurants includes time at Climpson’s Arch in Hackney and Kitty Fisher’s.

He said: “BRAT will focus on a particularly gentle and simple style of fire cooking recognisable from Getaria, which generally means buy well and don’t ruin it.

“Since leaving Kitty’s, I’ve been working closely with farmers and fisherman to create a menu which is structured around native ingredients at the peak of their season.”

He continued: “For me, the simple pleasure of eating well is what BRAT is all about. It’s a place I would want to eat – whether that be one dish with a glass of wine at lunch or settling in at the counter for a few hours.”

Tomos will collaborate on the wine list with Keeling Andrew & Co, a new wine import business established by the founders of wine bar Noble Rot.

BRAT will open its doors on March 17.