A new wave of Channel-hopping chefs - FT.com:
"Gallic ideals may appear to be everywhere in the capital’s restaurant life, from grand Parisian-style brasseries such as Balthazar to the classical French cooking that every chef has some of under his fingernails, but the actual restaurants only represent about 3.5 per cent of London’s total.
Horizons, the restaurant analysts, counted 257 French food outlets within the M25 in 2014, seven fewer than in 2009.
“French independents will have suffered in the past few years as the market is very tough. Chains like Côte will have increased their market share,” says Peter Backman, director of Horizons.
But along with Patron, those Parisian imports keep on coming, most recently Big Fernand burgers, bistro Le Chabanais and, this summer, wine bar Les 110 de Taillevent.
French food may yet make some noise this year, showing off the reinventions of eating and drinking habits that have livened up the French capital."
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