French-owned restaurant group Tigermilk chooses Spitalfields for second London site

Nina and Alexis Melikov launched their first Tigermilk restaurant in 2019
Nina and Alexis Melikov launched their first Tigermilk restaurant in 2019 (©Tigermilk)

Latin American-themed restaurant group Tigermilk will open a second site in the capital this April.

In Spitalfields, the restaurant will be the French-centric group’s largest location to date, seating 230 people indoors and a further 50 on a terrace.

The opening will bring Tigermilk – which was founded by Nina and Alexis Melikov in Paris in 2019 – to 13 locations.

The brand made its London debut last year with a site on the eastern edge of Soho, on Charing Cross Road.

All of Tigermilk’s other restaurants are in France, save for a site in the Belgian capital, Brussels.

Tigermilk says Spitalfields was selected as the next London location because of the pace of the neighbourhood and its mix of office workers, residents and tourists.

Guests will enter through a courtyard before moving deeper into the house, passing through a sequence of interconnected spaces, from the main dining room to an orangery seating more than 80 guests.

Above it all, a six-metre-high bar rises as the centrepiece of the restaurant, overlooking the courtyard below and backed by more than 2,000 bottles.

Inspired by the grand estates of the Mexican city of Cuernavaca, the design embraces the site’s scale and is designed to be “deliberately over the top”.

“We see Tigermilk as the Latin American answer to the European brasserie. With Spitalfields, we wanted to go further, bigger, louder, andmore alive, while keeping what matters most: generosity, atmosphere, and a place people comeback to without thinking twice,” Nina and Alexis Melikov say.