Michelin star chef Claude Bosi to open new pub in Surrey

The chef and his brother, Cedric, bought the Swan Inn, in Esher, Surrey, which they are understood to be refurbishing ahead of its opening.

Bosi said on Twitter that the Swan would serve a mixture of British dishes, pub classics and ‘fine ales’.

Justin West, who has worked previously with Bosi, will oversee the kitchen as head chef, while Joseph Hendriks, who has worked previously at Hibiscus and previous pub venture the Fox & Grapes, will take on the role of manager.

Dishes​

Dishes are set to include crab on toast with spring leaf salad and mustard dressing, Lyonnaise salad with poached eggs, organic bacon and crispy croûtons, rump of Welsh lamb with Moroccan mint pesto, treacle tart with clotted cream and rhubarb jelly and custard with Scottish shortbread.

The pub will feature a 55-cover restaurant as well as a private upstairs dining room accommodating 14 guests and an outdoor seating area.

However, despite the owners’ fine-dining credentials, the Swan will offer a full roast with all the trimmings every Sunday.

The Publican’s Morning Advertiser ​understands the brothers also plan to open six guestrooms in late spring.

Influx​

The past few years have seen a considerable influx of high-end restaurant chefs entering the pub trade.

Notable examples include the Galvin brothers, who opened their first pub HOP in London’s Spitalfields in January and ex-Restaurant Gordon Ramsay chef Stephen Ellis, who recently announced plans to open Berkshire pub the Oxford Blue​ later in the year.

Learn to make the perfect Scotch egg as served at the Galvin brothers’ pub, HOP.​​