Opening on the 1st July at 31a Villiers Street, Villiers is the new venture from the younger scions of the Gordon family, which has been feeding and watering Londoners for decades at legendary Gordon’s Wine Bar, also located on the historic street between Embankment and the Strand.
Behind the brand-new coffee company and all-day dining room, seating 40, are Sophie Gordon (28), who is devising the menus and overseeing the kitchen, and her sister, Rose Gordon (24), who will assist front of house. Their father, Tom Gordon, an artist and illustrator, will be working closely with them on all aspects of the business, particularly decor and design. Tom is the son of Wendy Gordon, the current owner of Gordon’s Wine Bar, who took over from her late husband Luis Gordon.
Villiers will serve breakfast, sandwiches, salads, cakes and pastries from 7.30am Monday to Saturday until 5pm, followed by Sophie’s seasonal, easy-going dinner menu from 6pm through until 11.30pm.
On Saturdays between 10am and 5pm there will be an all day brunch menu available featuring avocado on toast, fried eggs with corn bread and guacamole, and baked eggs with tomato and pepper stew.
Design
Villers’ design, a collaboration between Sophie and Tom, deploys original Victorian floorboards and geometric encaustic tiles in shades of pale blue and grey, vintage mirrors and articulated wall lamps. The long oak-topped bar down the left-hand side of the room, overhung with prismatic glass pendant lights, will be laid out with takeaway pastries and cakes during the afternoon, then prepared with napkins and cutlery for drinking and dining as the evening wears on. Shelves behind the bar will be stacked with Villiers coffee, Seville marmalade, and rhubarb and raspberry jam for sale, and a huge sash window will open up onto Villiers street.
Villiers, 31a Villiers Street, WC2N 6ND
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