In a message posted on Instagram, the London-based chef behind Straker’s in Notting Hill says he has ‘secured the keys’ to the former Lucky Strike restaurant on Grand Street in Soho following ‘months of negotiations’.
Lucky Strike was owned by restaurateur Keith McNally for more than 30 years but closed in April 2020 at the height of the pandemic.
Last year Straker ran a pop-up event in New York from 22-26 October at Ella Funt restaurant in the city’s East Village that featured Straker’s signature dishes, along with a selection of seasonal ingredients.
In July last year the chef, who has more than two million followers on both Instagram and TikTok, revealed plans to open a second London restaurant close to his eponymous Notting Hill venue.
In an interview with Tatler, he said he had taken on the corner site at 60 Golborne Road for an as-yet-unnamed café-style concept that’s described as a ‘breakfast-lunch kind of deli scenario’ but he has so far yet to open anything at the premises.
