Former Gordon Ramsay Group and JKS operations director Simon King has launched Igniting Hospitality with the company's first pub, the Victoria in Oxshott, Surrey, to open in July.
The group has brought Matt Larcombe, former head chef and general manager of Heston Blumenthal's Crown at Bray in Berkshire, on board as chef-director.
The menu at the Victoria will include starters such as crumpet topped with truffled Baron Bigod and fresh mushrooms, and beer-battered native oysters with seaweed mayonnaise. Mains will include brill cooked with St Austell bay mussels, parsley, garlic, and salt-baked baby potatoes; and free-range heritage pork chop, smoked Hispi cabbage and mashed potato with roast pork sauce. Desserts will include apple tarte tatin for two to share or Valrhona chocolate parfait with baked white chocolate, olive oil and milk ice-cream, paired with a Montecappone Vino e Visciole NV.