St John founders Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver to open Marylebone restaurant

The team behind St John have announced their first major restaurant opening in over a decade.

Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver are preparing to open a new St. John located on London’s Marylebone Lane on 18 October.

The wine-led site will be open all day, with coffees, bread and pastries available in the morning and daily specials accompanying St John staples at lunch and dinner.

The wine list will be dominated by France and winemakers known by Gulliver and Henderson, as well as an own-label section of St John bins.

Dishes prepared by head chef Fintan Sharp will change daily, though the menu will feature regulars including onion soup, bone marrow toast and parsley salad; deep fried Welsh rarebit; and Middle White chop, chicory and sorrel.

The restaurant itself will be split into two, with upstairs reserved for walk ins and an open-plan dining room downstairs reminiscent of St John in Smithfield.

Henderson, Gulliver, and Jon Spiteri opened the original St John restaurant in London’s Smithfield in 1994.

Spiteri left a few years later but Henderson and Gulliver have continued to run the business, which includes the St John Bread and Wine restaurant in Spitalfields and bakeries in Neal’s Yard and Borough.