Richard Caring savours taste of victory
When Earl Cadogan failed to enjoy his food at the Oriel in Sloane Square, he
told Mandrake in 2008 that he would not allow its owners to renew their
lease on the building, which he owns.
The peer was good to his word and the landmark restaurant closed in 2010.
Richard Caring, the owner of such celebrated dining rooms as The Ivy and Le
Caprice, was desperate to take over the prime site in Chelsea, but lost out
to Jeremy King and Chris Corbin, who run The Wolseley. Their brasserie,
Colbert, will open next month.
Caring does not, however, like the taste of defeat and has now secured a site
elsewhere on the square. He will open a branch of the Côte brasserie chain,
in which he owns a majority stake, in the Sloane Square Hotel later this
month. "He has made it on to the square before Corbin and King," boasts a
chum.
Nancy Dell’Olio: my regrets
Nancy Dell'Olio would turn up to the opening of an envelope, but there is one
series of soirées to which the Italian lawyer was not invited.
The former inamorata of Sven-Göran Eriksson and Sir Trevor Nunn is an
acquaintance of Silvio Berlusconi, but was not encouraged to attend his
"bunga-bunga" parties.
"I have met Berlusconi, but I don't know anything about bunga bunga," she says
at the first birthday party of Bunga Bunga, a pizzeria and bar in south
London. "I'm sorry I've never been invited."
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