Sellers has tasked David Rawlinson’s Restaurant Property with finding a pub with full extraction in Soho, Covent Garden, Marylebone, Notting Hill or Chelsea, although ‘wildcard’ locations across Zones 1 and 2 will also be considered.
It would not be the first time Sellers has been involved with a pub. In 2014, the chef and an unnamed local private investor took on the Grade II-listed Lickfold Inn near Petworth in West Sussex.
Sellers is understood to have parted ways with the project shortly before the pandemic.
He is best known for his two-Michelin-starred Restaurant Story near London Bridge, which he launched in 2013 at the age of 26.
The chef, whose CV includes Adam Byatt’s Trinity, and Per Se in New York, has since launched a string of other ventures, including Story Cellar, Gwyn’s Bakery and Dovetale.
Sellers stepped away from the latter earlier this year after a three year run.
Earlier this summer, Sellers opened MOR at Cornwall’s Carbis Bay Estate, taking over the space previously occupied by Adam Handling’s Ugly Butterfly.
The relaxed seafood restaurant is led in the kitchen by former Gwen and Ynyshir head chef Corrin Harrison, supported by Sellers’ right-hand man Tom Anglesea.
Its menu combines small plates with whole fish sourced according to availability.