RAYMOND BLANC’s SEASONS BRASSERIE BLANC
I have to admit to the contrary. After a good
Brasserie Blanc
start, the gravitational pull of the Manoir started
to have an effect on customers and staff alike.
nationwide
Expectations rose higher and higher, though the
cost of a meal did not. It was a bit like trying to Bristol
win a Formula One race in a 2CV, however good Bakers & Cutlers Halls
a car it may be, the chances are slim to none. The Friary Building,
This episode did teach me one very valuable Cabot Circus,
lesson: unlike the Manoir, where my constant Bristol, BS1 3DF
presence ensures that my vision is made reality, 01179 102 410
running a restaurant (or any business) in varied
locations means you need a team that not only Cheltenham
shares the vision but lives it, breathes it and The Queen’s Hotel
most importantly is capable of implementing it. The Promenade
This team needed to think like me and act like Cheltenham, GL50 1NN
me. Where was I going to find a small army of 01242 266 800
Raymond clones?”
Leeds
Brasserie reinvented Victoria Mill
By 2006, Raymond had gathered a new team Sovereign Street
and set about the relaunch of his brasserie Leeds, LS1 4BJ
The newly opened under the name Brasserie Blanc. 0113 220 6060
Brasserie Blanc, Bristol,
“Relaunch is probably the wrong word,” he
in the magnificent Grade 1
listed Quaker Meeting House
says, “what we did was start again from scratch. Manchester
I went back to what had inspired me in the very 55 King Street
beginning. In fact the Brasseries are about the (Off Chapel Walks)
Brasserie Blanc, Bristol, has also had the things that first made me fall in love with food, Manchester, M2 4LQ
benefit of the city’s £500 million refurbishment cooking and eating. Back to those family meals I 0161 832 1000
of Cabot Circus, where the brasserie is situated, love so much. Back to a simpler style...”
bringing new life to the old Quaker Meeting Simple, delicious, affordable, and with that all- Milton Keynes
House which has been sensitively restored. And important brasserie atmosphere, where the whole Chelsea House
this, together with the superb and reasonably family is actively welcomed. Brasserie Blanc continues 301 Avebury Boulevard
priced Brasserie Blanc menu, would surely cause to offer these attributes across the country, with the Central Milton Keynes, MK9 2GA
the most austere Quaker brethren to raise next Brasserie Blanc opening soon in Portsmouth. 01908 546 590
their hats to Raymond Blanc (“Raymond, my Tip; Brasserie Blanc Oxford is where you are
son, wouldst that you were amongst us four likely to see Raymond enjoying roast beef for Oxford
hundred years ago”). Sunday lunch” 71- 72 Walton Street
Oxford
The concept Simple, delicious, OX2 6AG
The Brasserie Blanc concept, as Raymond
affordable, and with
01865 510 999
all that brasserie
explains, is a deceptively simple one: “The
atmosphere!
Brasseries were born from something that is Tunbridge Wells
far more important to me than just eating, it is Five Ways
eating in good company. Not just any company Lime Hill Road
of course, company you that means something Tunbridge Wells
to you; be they family, friends, lovers or even Kent, TN1 1LJ
colleagues. This has its roots in exactly the 01892 559 170
same place as my love of food; the family table
and the cooking of Maman Blanc. The food she Winchester
produced season in, season out was the canvas 19-20 Jewry Street
to our family life; family meals were the centre of Winchester
our lives.” SO23 8RZ
And was the launch of your first brasserie a 01962 810870
great success all those years ago?
“I would love to be able to say that it was a And, coming soon …
resounding success, but with a certain amount Brasserie Blanc, Portsmouth
of humility (a trait not learnt in my native France)
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