Award-winning chef-restaurateur Stevie Parle and designer Tom Dixon has just launched a new incarnation of their widely lauded and much-loved Joy.
The spectacular plant shop and cafe occupies a bright Marylebone High Street space for the next few months, and will also host Parle’s return to his supper club roots with a weekly intimate supperclub dinner for just 30 guests.
The cafe and shop is open 10am to 7pm every day and serves a short hyper-seasonal menu featuring some Joy classics, and new dishes including: Acton burrata, slow cooked peppers & tomato; Aubergine Caponata; Salade Niçoise; Super fresh raw vegetables with black olive and elderberry tapenade; Ajo blanco (a chilled almond soup) with sherry vinegar, cherries and fennel flowers; Dorset clams cooked in fino sherry with guanciale & chickpeas.
For sweet treats, there's the much-loved American cherry pie and clotted cream and Canelé.
The cafe sells a variety of products for take-away too, all inspired by the plants and vegetation around from CBD oil to kefir water and a select array of pantry specialty ingredients. Almost all of the vegetable focussed cafe menu will be available to takeaway.
The shop sells a huge variety of houseplants hand selected by Parle and sourced from specialist British and Dutch growers and collectors focussing on big mature specimens and unusual beautiful plants priced from £12 to £1200. Cafe guests sit in amongst these impressive plants to experience a calm oasis in Marylebone Village, in the heart of central London.
Each Thursday night Joy will host a supper club cooked by Parle for invited friends to take over the space. These will be ticketed events, serving a set menu of £55 for a generous meal based around what’s hyper seasonal that week and very often supplied by Stevie’s own gardens, or that of his pals at The Goods Shed in Kent.
Parle first made his name in the industry hosting his Movable Feast pop-ups all over town in 2009. These supperclubs are a continuous theme throughout Stevie’s businesses, being the basis of his Dock Kitchen restaurant to his more recent truffle nights, regional dinners, cookbook clubs and amazing one offs in everywhere from Carnaby St, Tel Aviv to Melbourne.
Parle said, “Whilst we all miss W10 and we hope to return west again at some point, it’s super exciting to have a beautiful space in thriving Marylebone Village to continue our experiments in community retail, explore more our love of horticulture and house plants, and have a base to gear up for a big Joy in another amazing space we haven’t yet found.'