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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
David Ellis

Bloodshot: Robin Gill takes the Standard inside London’s wildest supperclub

Party animal: Robin Gill is relaunching his infamous supperclub in Bermondsey

(Picture: Natasha Pszenicki)

Robin Gill, the Dublin-born chef and restaurateur, is gleefully giggling — more maniacally cackling, really — as he explains why his notorious supperclub Bloodshot was cancelled for the final time five years ago. “I thought my wife was gonna kill me or leave me,” he grins. “She used to move out of the f***ing country when she knew it was going on. I’m not kidding here — she’d go back to Dublin whenever it was coming up.”

It wasn’t the first time Gill had to call time on Bloodshot, either. “I’ve got no recollection of this but at one, someone had written ‘happy mother’s day’ on my arse. I went home at God knows what time, went to bed. I’m lying there face down, naked, and my wife sees [it],” Another naughty giggle. “So that was the last one for a while…”

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