MasterChef winner to launch debut London restaurant this October

A MasterChef winner is due to open his debut restaurant in London this autumn after a ‘successful’ crowdfunding campaign.

Sven Hanson Britt, who was the winner of MasterChef the Professionals: The Rematch 2019, is launching his first restaurant Oxeye in Nine Elms’ Embassy Gardens in October.

Sven launched a kickstarter campaign in 2019 to fund the opening of the restaurant, which raised more than £36k.

In addition to a ‘fine-dining’ restaurant, there will be a bar, shop, private dining room, and gallery on site. Oxeye will host six sittings a week from Thursday to Saturday, while the adjacent Bar Rex will serve over more than 300 British wines from Thursday to Sunday. Oxeye’s private event space, art gallery, and outdoor terrace will be atop the building.

Sven said: “Oxeye has been the best part of 10 years in the making: from formulating our ideas in the fields of Park Farm in Derbyshire, to finding the perfect site in Embassy Gardens.”

He continued: “The restaurant has its own smallholding in Derbyshire where we grow fruit, vegetables and hedgerow crops to supplement produce from a number of tiny growers and producers across the country. These artisans, farmers and true heroes of British food inspire us and push us every day to create more and more delicious food.”