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Jamie Oliver to open new restaurant in Kingston

12:16pm Wednesday 2nd April 2008

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Jamie Oliver will be bringing his gourmet talents to Kingston when he opens Jamie's Italian in High Street later this year.

The top chef will visit the town over the coming months to oversee the project, which will see an office block on the corner of Kingston Hall Road, turned into a rustic restaurant.

It is hoped its location, almost exactly opposite the Rose Theatre, will promote Kingston as an entertainment venue. Staff will be appointed locally through workshop-style interviews.

The Kingston branch will be the third to open in the UK, after Bath and Oxford, and is expected to be ready by September.

Food will be more affordable than his other upmarket brand Fifteen and will be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, seven days a week.

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Adrian Wheeler, Kingston says...
1:54pm Wed 2 Apr 08

Should that not read "Chav brings restaurant for Chavs to Kingston". Can you imagine the dross who'll eat there?

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LIV, surrey says...
3:08pm Wed 2 Apr 08

Jamie Oliver is not a chav. he is a well trained talented chef and his cook book is a best seller at the moment. People who use his books are likely to eat there I expect. Dont be so negative about it

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ric, kingston says...
8:53am Thu 3 Apr 08

oh hang on if you have a best seller your not a chav?

wayne rooney
jade goody
katie price.

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Dave Gorman, London says...
10:06am Thu 3 Apr 08

People don't have to be posh and play orchestral instruments to be nice.

Equally I'm sure the restaurant will do more than French food with cream horns for pudding...sorry I'm being chav, I mean dessert.

This is wonderful news, anything adding to Kingston and reducing late night binge drinkers is a good thing.

Dave

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LIV, Surrey says...
10:45am Thu 3 Apr 08

I didnt say that because he has a bestseller he isnt a chav,I dont see why people think he is a chav. he is just a down to earth guy.He is educated and his restaurant will be very welcome in the town I am sure, I am sure people who use his cook book at home can't wait to eat there.

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N3O, says...
11:02am Thu 3 Apr 08

i will eat there.....hes a chef who cares if hes a chav or not....whatever he can cook better than all of us....(and im sure his staff will to) and LOL as if it would stop binge drinking haha
no correlation between a posh (er) restaraunt and drinkers....im intrigued already tbh

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Mandy, Kingston says...
12:21pm Thu 3 Apr 08

Bring it on Jamie, I will definatley try it out. I wonder if the food will all be brought in from Sainsbury's!!!!!

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Lisa, Kingston says...
10:02pm Fri 4 Apr 08

Exciting news! I'll be there and so will many I know. I like his style and don't knock his well deserved success.

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jib, says...
4:34pm Mon 7 Apr 08

Didn't he get done for forcing himself on some goats or something like that ?
I for one will be boycoting his retaurant, I cant abide abuse of animals.

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Ruth, Surbiton says...
12:25pm Tue 8 Apr 08

jib wrote:
Didn't he get done for forcing himself on some goats or something like that ? I for one will be boycoting his retaurant, I cant abide abuse of animals.
Unbelievable, jib ... why not try confirming an absurd rumour for yourself before palming it off on others as a fact; Jamie might have curried a goat or two in his time, but he certainly never 'forced himself' on some!

Despite Oliver's numerous annoying qualities (and there are many), his food is good, and contrary to jib's wild assumption he's done more to draw the public's attention to the exceptionally cruel methods used in bringing mass-produced meat to our tables than most of his 'posher' contemporaries ... Ramsay's too busy empire-building (and not even trying to rein in his borderline Tourette's) to even care if viewers find his pig-slaughtering offensive, Delia's showing the nation how to cook using packet foods (she must surely be crowned 'Queen-Of-The-Chavs' for that effort), while everyone else seems to be trying to 'find the angle' to get their own TV series.

I, for one, will certainly be reserving judgement on his new Kingston venture until after I've eaten there.

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Sonia DeMonte, Kingston says...
1:16pm Thu 17 Apr 08

Well I'd love to eat there! so people don't knock it till you've tried it! I live and work in kingston and I think it would give agreat deal to kingston. It will also allow people to try his food that wouldn't get to his other resterants.

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Mary, Canada says...
3:27am Mon 28 Apr 08

Do you people know the definition of the word "chav"...it's Romany for child. Jamie Oliver can't make Kingston any worse by coming to the High Street.. I know I used to live there

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