Opening earlier this week, the restaurant is back serving its menu of classic British dishes among its rustic interiors.
Maggie Jones’s launched in 1964 as Nan’s Kitchen, which was at the time one of Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon’s favourite haunts. In the early seventies, the restaurant changed its name to Maggie Jones’s in honour of its most famous client, who used to book under the alias ‘Maggie Jones’.
Over the years the restaurant, which is the sister venue to French restaurant La Poule au Pot in Belgravia, has welcomed most of the royal family.
Thai restaurant Som Saa also reopens this month having also closed following an electrical fire. The Shoreditch restaurant has been closed since May after a fire in its kitchen extraction system caused ‘significant damage’.