Located within Studio 3 Monohaus on Mare Street, Field Notes is billed as a culmination of Tisdall-Downes’ 15-year journey exploring food cultures and sustainability practices across the globe.
Described as concise and ever changing, the menu will blend the nostalgic flavours of his upbringing with those of his more recent travels with dishes including morel har gow; brown crab tikka masala; and pickled cockle flatbreads.
There will also be some reimagined versions of dishes Tisdall-Downes became known for at his long standing itinerant restaurant projects Native including fermented potato waffle and the fish fillet.
To complement the cooking, Field Notes will feature a cocktail and wine bar built on the same sustainable principles as the kitchen.
The ‘living drinks program’ will include wild sodas, botanical cocktails and natural, low-intervention wines from vineyards around the world.
“Field Notes is about exploring sustainability as a global conversation,” says Tisdall-Downes. “But at its heart, it’s about serving food that people want to eat—flavourful, surprising, and welcoming to everyone. The aim is simple: to create food that is bold, accessible, and above all, flavourful.”
Tisdall-Downes founded Native with Imogen Davis in 2015, first as a street food stall in London.
The pair quickly made their mark with a focus on foraging, hyper-seasonality and zero-waste cooking, earning a reputation for dishes that celebrated wild and overlooked ingredients.
They opened their first permanent site in Covent Garden in 2016, later moving to London Bridge, before briefly taking Native to Osea Island in Essex and then to Mayfair with Native at Browns in 2021.
After a two-year stint in W1, Native re-emerged in 2024 at the former Pensons restaurant on the Netherwood Estate, on the Herefordshire–Worcestershire border, and saw the team deepen their regenerative approach, working with estate-grown produce, foraged ingredients and low-intervention drinks.
Tisdall-Downes stepped down from his role as executive chef at the site early this year.