Raz Helalat to launch Brighton restaurant Tutto with former Café Murano chef

Razak Helalat of Brighton restaurants the Coal Shed, the Salt Room and Burnt Orange is to launch an Italian restaurant in the city with chef Mirella Pau, formerly of Café Murano and Padella, at the helm.

Tutto will open in a 1930s former bank on Marlborough Place in June and feature an 80-cover, all-day restaurant and 34-cover terrace.

Head chef Pau was born in Sardinia to a family of Italian restaurateurs. She worked in her family’s restaurant, trained as a sommelier at the age of 16 and studied at Milan’s renowned Accademia Gualtiero Marchesi in her early 20s.

She went on to work at east London restaurant Verdi’s, before joining Angela Hartnett’s Café Murano in Covent Garden where she was head chef for four years and later took on the same position at Coppa Club and Padella.

Helalat founded Black Rock Restaurants Group with the opening of the Coal Shed in 2011. British seafood restaurant the Salt Room, followed in 2015, followed by the second Coal Shed restaurant in London's One Tower Bridge development in 2017.

Burnt Orange, opened on Brighton's Middle Street in 2021 and was awarded a Bib Gourmand in the 2022 Michelin Guide.