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Iconic London restaurant Maggie Jones has re-opened after closing down due to an electrical fire in September 2023.
Granted, we thought it had bitten the dust for good, but the Kensington favourite – which is a sister restaurant to Belgravia’s La Poule Au Pot – is now back in business.
Regularly tipped as one of the most romantic restaurants in the capital, Maggie Jones is also one of London’s oldest restaurants, dating back to 1964.
Our most recent Time Out review praised the old school energy of the bistro on Old Court Place: ‘With interiors that look like they’ve been styled by some sort of Beatrix Potter character, Maggie Jones’s has OTT rustic decor that’s hugely atmospheric. Dried flowers and wicker baskets bedeck cosy little corners and hearty fare is piled into Provençal earthenware pots and served on mismatching toile plates.’
Maggie Jones offers French and British country classics, with the relaunched menu including onion soup, roast rump of lamb, fish pie and steak and kidney pie, as well as the likes of apple crumble with custard for pudding.
The restaurant has only closed down twice in its 60 year history, the first time due to the Covid pandemic. It opened in 1964 under the name Nan’s Kitchen, but took on the title of Maggie Jones in the 1970s, as a tribute to the alias used by Princess Margaret when she would make a booking there.
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