The Beckford Canteen will open in Bath city centre next month with former Kitty Fisher’s and Cora Pearl chef George Barson at the helm.
It will be the second restaurant for the Beckford Group, which already operates Beckford Bottle Shop in the city along with four country inns with rooms in Somerset and Wiltshire, and the Bramley Products website.
The group, run by co-founders Dan Brod, Charlie Luxton, and Matt Greenlees, will launch their new project in a former Georgian greenhouse on Bartlett Street. It will have around 40 seats inside with a further 40 in the restaurant’s hidden garden to the rear.
The Beckford Canteen will open from midday to the evening, serving lunch and dinner as well as drinks and snacks between the hours of 4-6pm.
The menu will be modern British and “centre around provenance and seasonality”. Dishes include rarebit with beer-pickled onions; cured pig’s jowl; and black treacle and tiger sponge with brown butter ice cream.
George Barson, who started his career in the South West, has a CV that includes stints at Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage, Dinner by Heston Blumenthal and Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen as well as launching Mayfair’s Kitty Fisher’s and sister restaurant Cora Pearl which he launched for owners Oliver Milburn, Tom Mullion and Tim Steel in 2018.
Dan Brod said: “We want to rejuvenate the idea of modern British informal dining at The Canteen – getting the best out of the best ingredients by serving simple, honest and delicious food with conviviality.”
