Oisin Rogers

Devonshire opened in November 23.

So we're there about two and a half years, but it feels like 20.

Well, I think the Devonshire might be a little bit more than a pub.

We've got this wonderful restaurant upstairs.

It's in an incredible location right in the centre of the city.

I always felt that the West End and the city, while it has some really great pubs, most of them are very small and a lot of them are not amazingly good.

And we wanted to open something that was really attractive, that would make people feel comfortable and safe and happy and have really great products.

And we found this great big site right by Piccadilly Circus.

And we just turned it into a pub on the ground floor with an amazing restaurant upstairs.

And it's been fun.

Well, next time, Tracy, you'd be so welcome.

Be great to see you.

They completely change, if I'm honest, for lots of reasons.

You know, when I go back, you know, 20 years ago, there was very little food in pubs.

Everybody smoked in the pubs and you could smoke at the counter and the whole place was full of smoke.

So you wouldn't consider eating anything.

And that gradually changed.

So we moved more towards snacks you could eat standing up and then table meals.

And then the gastropub started in about 1991 to 95.

And that's really become a thing where gastropubs are now really restaurants.