José Pizarro’s new restaurant to serve tinned fish and a 'bikini' sandwich

Further details have been revealed about chef José Pizarro’s upcoming London restaurant Lolo.

 

The site, due to open on 12 August, will be a new venture into all-day dining for the chef and his first restaurant to serve breakfast.

 

Lolo will seat 46 covers and feature a bar area with counter seating. It will be open from 8am to 9.30pm and will transform from an airy café in the day to a low-lit, more intimate bar in the evening.

 

The breakfast menu will be served until 5pm and include eggs ’as you like’, pastries, figs with honey ice-cream, a range of devilled eggs and a sandwich called the ’Bikini’ with cheese, Jamon 5J and truffle.

 

Lunch and dinner will be on offer from 12pm-9.30pm and include salads of octopus, roast tomato and black-eyed beans. The menu will also feature tinned items, such as Anchoa Catalina Gran Reserva, cockles, clams and mackerel roe, as well as boards of cheese, charcuterie and tinned and cured fish.

 

A range of Bloody Marys have been designed to pair with meat, fish and vegetable dishes, while wines will be sourced from the Mediterranean region.

 

Lolo will be Pizarro’s third restaurant on Bermondsey Street, which is also the location of his first tapas bar, José, which he opened in 2011, and later his Pizarro restaurant.

 

The chef also runs restaurants at Broadgate Circle and at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, as well as the Swan Inn pub in Esher.

 

Pizarro said: “I am thrilled to be bringing Lolo to Bermondsey Street as I have felt that an all-day dining spot is what is missing for locals.

 

"The menu features dishes straight from my home kitchen and I am incredibly passionate about bringing these recipes to life within Lolo.”

 

In March the chef was honoured with the Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, which is Spain’s equivalent of a knighthood and is awarded to those who have supported and promoted Spain worldwide.

 

He is the only Spanish chef to have ever been recognised with the cross.