Layo & Zoë Paskin - Opening London's Greatest Night Club 'The End' - Breaking Fat Boy Slim & Creating; The Palomar, Barbary & Evelyn's Table!
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Why did Layo and Zoë decide to close The End at the height of its success?
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Level, left up, left off, left up, left up, level. Well, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I'm honored to bring you another episode of Mison Plus Boys by Blink, the greatest POS system in the world. In 1995, London's Nightlife trained forever with the launch at the end, a legendary club that broke down because like Dark Time. Fat Boy Slim. Still going, Fat Boy. Unbelievable. I'm playing with him tomorrow night. You are you? On the beach in Brighton, yeah. What? Where was it? Where was where was my invite? Sorry. I'll come down. I mean I've got no plans. Well, I'll look into it. Oh yeah, I have been banned from Brighton actually. Um but I would like to go there. Anyway, in two thousand and nine at the absolute peak of its powers, you guys decided to walk away.
I mean there was a bit of that was eight million there, which is nice. Um, we'll get onto that later. Um but you guys then took a bit of a break and then decided to take your legendary sort of club first hospitality blueprint and imported it directly into London's food scene. And today Studio Paskin operates some of the city's most celebrated intimate venues. Yeah. From the high energy zinc counter of the Palomar to the subterranean mission starred Evelyn's Table. Are your favourites? Well, they are my favourites actually. But talk us through the offering here on a foodie sense. So we're in the Barbery in Notting Hill, which is the sort of I guess big brother, big sister, uh to the Barbary and Neil's Yard.
And the Barbary Neil's yard began after the success of the Palomar And everyone wanted to sit on the counter. We were really f you know, we thought counter dining, counter dining, and we had always grown up with that. But it originated a bit further back. My best friend's family have a house in Antiparos, which they've had under since the mid seventies. We used to go there and there was a village on the island and there was a little there was an oven in the village that everyone used and there was one restaurant weirdly called Cafe Mexicana. And there was an old woman who used to cook There and she basically made the food, I guess, around lunchtime, and then you'd go there at the end of the day, 6, 6 30, and she'd just basically have it spread out on the table.
It was all kind of lukewarm, but that was what was on offer that night. It was super place. And in the way that those places, you know, on holidays always are. And we we always like a little bit of that transportive nature for what we do with hospitality. That and then I started we started talking. About the Palama is quite rich, the food, and we thought about making it a bit simpler for the next place and the counter. And we thought, well, we could do it round a kitchen, and then I referenced this place with Zoe, and we started talking about it, and then we're really into bread and pizza, probably being the favourite, and then after pizza was nuns. And then we went into the history of the nun, and it's actually Persian.
And the actual name is Nun E Barber. Barbary. And so we started talking about the name the Barbary. And then we looked into it in the coast. And then we had a whole history of our father hitchhiking in the sixties to Morocco, our uncle living there, us going there as kids. And then we started to go a lot, you know, as teenagers on to Spain. And it was just sort of melding all that together. And and really it's probably how we most work together. We sort of have a variety of different ideas and then start to feel, well, if we put that with that and that does that clay all come together and feel correct? You know, a lot of what you do creatively is like Does it feel right? Yeah. And then if you sort of start to feel like you get on a thing, which is quite good because then you start dismissing other ideas that don't feel like they're on this idea, and then everything then starts to try to hold together to try to make it coherent.
Sorry, it's a long answer. Sounds beautiful. That's beautiful. Um you've obviously got other restaurants as well.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why did Layo and Zoë decide to close The End at the height of its success?
0:03–10:49
2
How did the lessons from running a legendary nightclub shape the blueprint for their restaurants?
10:49–22:35
3
What inspired the creation of The Palomar and how did the Jerusalem trip influence its concept?
22:35–32:55
4
What are the signature dishes and culinary philosophy behind The Barbary’s menu?
32:55–43:58
5
How did Evelyn’s Table earn its Michelin star and what makes its dining experience unique?
43:58–47:36
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