Chef Tom Aikens' 25-seater fine dining destination, Muse has just reopened to guests.
The restaurant - housed in a converted Georgian townhouse in old Belgravia - opened in January 2020 and is now back and ready to welcome diners. The ethos remains the same, but the menus are refreshed, changing in tandem with the seasons.
Framed around dramatic open kitchens, and offering experiential-led dining (7 or 10-course tasting menus), the Muse menus are inspired by nostalgia and pivotal moments in Aikens' personal life and steadfast culinary career. Muse intends to take guests on a journey, to create memories: hospitality at its very best.
These past few months, Aikens and his close-knit team have been visiting their suppliers in Norfolk (Tom’s home county), pickling and fermenting Britain’s finest summer produce to make oils, essences, preserves, flavoured vinegars, vodkas and infused spirits. All of this is showcased in their new menus, including dishes such as ‘The summer bounty’: a combination of turbot, rose and orange; ‘Neither black nor white’: celeriac, charcoal, egg yolk; and ‘Just one more barbecue’: lamb, Sichuan pepper, corn.
Having missed the opportunity to offer its diners the Government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme, Muse are matching this effort by giving guests the chance to take part this September, with £10 off each tasting menu on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings throughout the month.
To tie in with a new season at Muse, Aikens will also be launching a guest chef series: Muse Masters. The series welcomes industry heavyweight chefs to Muse for exclusive 4 handed (Aikens and guest) chef dinners.
Kicking off in September (date TBC) the first two evenings will see chefs Robin Gill of Clapham institution, The Dairy, and Alex Dilling of The Greenhouse, Mayfair’s much-loved two Michelin-starred French dining room, cooking in Muse’s open kitchens.
The Muse Master series aims to offer guests the chance to enjoy cooking from some of the UK’s most-loved chefs: a night of good food and wine, following a tough few months for the hospitality industry. Dinners cooked by some of the best names in town, bringing their signature dishes to Muse for one night only.
A percentage of profits will go to “Only A Pavement Away” – a charity battling homelessness and helping place vulnerable people into jobs within hospitality, of which Aikens is an Ambassador.
On the reopening, Aikens said, 'It has been an incredibly long and uncertain five months for us all, but my team and I are delighted to be able to reopen Muse, and to be getting back to doing what we love most. We are really looking forward to welcoming you over coming weeks and months.'