Oisin Rogers

I love the scotch.

And you can still spend, you know, £150 on an incredible piece of beer.

dry aged Scottish beef, which will be amazing.

So you've got that whole sort of sliding scale of spend.

And that's really important to us that people can get in there, have a great time and not spend a lot.

But at the same time, if they want to spend a lot, they can and they do.

So we were out looking for locations because we wanted to do a pub.

We knew we wanted to do a pub with really great food.

There are very few big pubs in central London.

Well, the Devonshire as it is, was a pub before.

It was called the Devonshire right up until 2009, but it was less than half the size it is now.

In fact, probably a quarter of the size.

So when that closed down in 2009, the landlords took the building back and they put it together with the building next door and they knocked it through to turn it into a huge restaurant.

And that was Jamie Oliver's first Jamie's Italian.

And he was incredibly successful.

I love Jamie, by the way, and he did a fabulous job there up until his business ran away from him a little bit in 2019.

And it closed just before the pandemic.

So we'd always had our eye on it, hoping that we could persuade the city to turn it back into a pub and that we might be able to operate it.

And that was a big journey for us to make that happen.

It's a very complicated question.