Frontline Club restaurant to get full-scale refurb this summer

An expanded restaurant will launch at the famous haunt of journalists and photographers
Journo haunt: The Frontline Club
Ben Norum11 August 2016

Paddington’s Frontline Restaurant, set on the ground floor of the Frontline Club, will get a complete overhaul this summer before relaunching with a new look in mid September.

The club is well-known across the country and beyond as a gathering place for journalists, photographers and other communities interested in international affairs — last year it won a prestigious Albert Londres Medal for its contribution to international journalism.

Profits from the restaurant go towards the Frontline Club’s lineup of talks and debates about world affairs and international relations, as well as its work championing international journalism around the world.

The reopened site will come complete with a new mezzanine offering seating for an extra 23 diners, as well as a large bar carved out of black stone. It will sit well in the space, which is a former 19th century factory where Hackney Carriages were made.

It will serve food from chef John Edwards, formerly of Caprice Holdings restaurant group, along with wines selected by blogger and consultant Zeren Wilson.

Dishes set for the relaunch menu include a white onion and cider soup with a cheddar and onion croquette; a wood pigeon salad with pickled girolles, elderberry and chickweed; lamb and root vegetable pie with rosemary mash; and a steamed treacle pudding with Jersey cream.

The club’s owners Vaughan and Pranvera Smith provide fresh produce from their own Norfolk farm for use on the menu, including Norfolk Horn lamb.

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The Frontline Club hosts a permanent photojournalism exhibition curated by John G Morris, the legendary picture editor who worked out of London for Life magazine in World War II, and includes Robert Capa’s famous D-Day images.

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