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Five Things to Know About Brigadiers: The Next Project by JKS Restaurants [Updated]

The Indian barbecue restaurant and sports pub in the Bloomberg Arcade will open in May

Jyotin Sethi, right, CEO JKS Restaurants, the London restaurant group behind Michelin-starred Gymkhana, Trishna, Lyle’s, Sabor, and two-Michelin-Starred Kitchen Table, discusses the importance of the VAT cut during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown in London
Karam, Sunaina and Jyotin Sethi
Courtesy of JKS Restaurants

Updated 26.2.2018: with opening month, cover numbers and further details on the food.

The JKS Restaurants group has form: The three siblings, Karam, Sunaina and Jyotin Sethi — together, are the trio behind Trishna, Gymkhana and Hoppers x 2, as well as backers of Kitchen Table, Bubbledogs, Lyle’s, BAO, XU and soon-to-open Sabor. Brigadiers will be the group’s next project, and will open in the Bloomberg Arcade in the City in May this year.

Here are five things to know about one of the most hotly-anticipated openings coming in the new year:

1. Where is it

At numbers 1 – 5 inside the city’s biggest new restaurant development, the Bloomberg Arcade, where already this year, Koya City, Bleecker, Vinoteca, Caravan and Ahi Poke.

2. What is it

A 140-cover (plus 34-cover terrace) Indian barbecue, beer, whisky, and live sport venue: In the operators’ words: “An Indian barbecue and beer tavern inspired by the army mess bars of India, where military regiments go to eat, drink and socialise.”

3. What’s on the menu

Centre around methods of Indian barbecue: tandoors, charcoal grills, rotisseries, wood ovens and classic Indian smokers. There will be four main sections to the menu:

  • Beer Snacks, Nuts and Crisps
  • Chhota Chatpata (fiery small plates)
  • Anda (Egg), Offal, Roti, Rolls, Pav
  • Madras mess mix; oysters saagafeller; chaat masala pork scratchings; smoked roe and fennel raita; cocktail pig cheek samosa; achari masala rump steak paratha roll; shellfish pakora pao; goat chapli and smoked bhuna goat bun kebab; The Brigadiers tandoori chicken club sandwich.
  • Sizzlers and Roasts: mixed grills of kebabs, chops and tikka; feasting options of rotisserie ducks, wood-roasted suckling lambs and tandoori tomahawk steaks.
  • Chargrilled bhopali goat chop korma; tandoori chicken chop dopiaza; awadhi wood roasted skate wing; dry masala rib eye steak; smoked Nepali bhutwa lamb ribs.
  • Whole suckling lamb biryani will also be available for pre-order as part of a feasting menu.

4. And to drink

30 different beers — including JKS’ own specially commissioned session pale ale beer called 4th Rifles (a tropical citrus-y session pale ale) brewed in collaboration with the Thornbridge Brewery — and a large selection of whisky (perhaps to be dispensed from a whisky-soda trolley and split into four categories: smoky, delicate, light, and rich.) On-tap cocktails will include nitro espresso martini, and a “cask handpulled” Buffalo Trace old fashioned.

Brigadiers’ logo
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5. More details

There will be live sport shown in selected areas of the restaurant, one of the ways the operators hope to encourage a weekend trade when the City is typically quiet. A pool table and classic card games will be available for those so inclined. And slot machines plus arcade games have also been rumoured to be part of the plans.

To keep an eye on what’s happening, follow the restaurant at www.brigadierslondon.com before a first-look inside on Eater London in the spring next year.

Gymkhana

42 Albemarle Street, , England W1S 4JH 020 3011 5900 Visit Website

Sabor

35-37 Heddon Street, , England W1B 4BR 020 3319 8130 Visit Website

Bubbledogs

70 Charlotte Street, , England W1T 4QG 020 7637 7770 Visit Website

Bao

83 Rue De La Gauchetière Ouest, Ville-Marie, QC H2Z 1C2 (514) 875-1388

XU

30 Rupert Street, , England W1D 6DL 020 3319 8147 Visit Website

Bleecker

205 Victoria Street, , England SW1E 5NE 020 7828 8016 Visit Website

Trishna

15-17 Blandford Street, , England W1U 3DG 020 7935 5624 Visit Website

Kitchen Table

70 Charlotte Street, , England W1T 4QG Visit Website

Koya City

10-12 Bloomberg Arcade, , England EC4N 8AR Visit Website

Hoppers

77 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 1QE Visit Website

VinoTeca

299 North Highland Avenue Northeast, , GA 30307 (470) 377-5100 Visit Website

Lyle's

1731 New Hampshire Avenue Northwest, , DC 20009 (202) 964-6790 Visit Website