Jesus Adorno leaves Arlington less than a month after opening

Jesus Adorno has left Jeremy King’s Arlington restaurant in London, less than a month after it opened to the public.

The maître d’ posted on Instagram on Monday: “With great sorrow I handed my notice this morning to @jeremyrbking @arlingtonrestaurant , it wasn’t a good fit for me and I decided it wasn’t right, #familytime.”

Adorno was part of the team at the original Le Caprice when it was opened by King and his long-term business partner Chris Corbin in 1981. He left the restaurant in 2020 after 38 years.

King took on the lease of the site in 2023 and relaunched it as Arlington last month, with Adorno returning to the fold.

Ahead of the opening, King said Adorno had been "integral" to the restaurant's success and that the pair would "aim to recreate a restaurant that for many of our customers over the years was the one they professed their greatest love for."

Arlington only opened for public bookings on 11 March and in an Instagram post on 2 March Adorno likened the restaurant to a “tsunami”.

It is the first of three London restaurants King will open this year, which include a relaunch of the Simpson’s in the Strand site and New York-inspired ‘grand café’ the Park in Bayswater.

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