New pub for Bosi brothers

Claude Bosi, chef-patron at two-Michelin star Mayfair restaurant Hibiscus, is to take on a pub with rooms with brother Cedrick.

The Fox & Grapes, in Wimbledon, south London, will retain its name, with the French-born duo set to offer traditional English food and a large range of draught beers and wines.

Main courses on offer at the Enterprise Inns leasehold will include coq au vin, chicken Kiev, sausage and mash, fish pie and sharing platters of roasted meats. A bar menu will offer pork scratchings and pork pies.

The site, which is currently being refurbished, has three bedrooms and is due to open in February,

"It won't be French cooking," said Bosi. "Just seasonal local produce cooked well. The English pub is the closest thing there is to a neighbourhood bistro in France. I want to create a convivial atmosphere and offer good home cooking."

The brothers Bosi are not new to the pub trade having operated the Bib Gourmand-rated Bell Inn, in Ludlow, Shropshire, which closed in February this year.

Patrick Leano, currently a sous chef at Hibiscus, will be head chef.

Cedrick Bosi will be general manager, with Claude overseeing the menus.