Set to open early next month on Kensington High Street, the restaurant will serve Canadian-inspired food and cocktails alongside live sport.
Founded in Montreal in 1984, La Cage is billed by Groupe Grandio as a Quebec institution and operates nearly 40 restaurants across the province.
It made its international debut in 2023 with an opening in Bordeaux-Bègles, France, and launched a second French restaurant in Aix-en-Provence earlier this year.
The London opening will mark La Cage’s debut in an English-speaking market, with the Kensington restaurant intended to serve as a flagship for its wider international expansion.
Set across two floors, the venue has been designed to accommodate the capital’s “many different sporting allegiances”, with areas that can be adapted to show multiple fixtures simultaneously.
The menu will include Quebec classics such as poutine alongside 24-hour smoked beef short rib with creamy polenta; a smoked short rib burger with Jarlsberg and maple bacon; and rib-eye steak seasoned with Montreal steak spice.
Other dishes will include lobster rolls, Montreal-style hot honey pizza and beavertails – fried pastries served with cinnamon sugar, maple ice cream and dark chocolate sauce.
The Canadian influence will continue behind the bar with a Montreal mule made with Canadian Club whisky, ginger and maple syrup; a maple Old Fashioned; and a Montreal spritz combining maple whisky, Aperol, cava and black cherry bitters.
La Cage will also serve a Montreal Caesar made with vodka, Clamato, Montreal spice and maple bacon, alongside Canadian beers including Molson Canadian and Moosehead.
“London felt like the right place for the next chapter of La Cage,” says Jean Bédard, president and chief executive of Groupe Grandio.
“La Cage has always been about much more than watching a game – it’s the food, the drinks, the people you’re with and the atmosphere around it.
“London is our first step into an English-speaking market and an opportunity to introduce the brand to a completely new audience. We have big ambitions internationally, but our focus right now is Kensington.”
Groupe Grandio employs around 4,300 people across more than 60 locations. Its portfolio also includes Cochon Dingue, Chez Lionel, IRU Izakaya, Moishes, Gibbys and Niji Sushi.