Everybody’s got a Hicce Hart: the pub will open in November
(Picture: Press handout)Pip Lacey, the chef who ran Jeremy Clarkson’s short-lived Diddly Squat farm restaurant, is opening a new pub with her business partner Gordy McIntyre.
Lacey and McIntyre will open Hicce Hart in Islington, in November. As the name suggests, the pub is the first outpost of their popular restaurant Hicce, which operates in Coal Drops Yard by King’s Cross.
As with its elder sibling, Hicce Hart will serve seasonal, sustainably-sourced British food, which Lacey and McIntyre say will “stay true to the traditions of classic British pub grub.”
That said, dishes are expected to look beyond pies and fish and chips, and will instead include the likes of white fish in squid ink with capers, and beef cheek cooked with turnip and celery. There will also be a Sunday roast. While Lacey will oversee things, the head chef will be Charlotte Harris, returning to the Hicce team after a stint with Fallow.
Sundays will also play host to weekly evening wine clubs — which sound promising — alongside less-regular supper clubs. Guest chefs are expected for these, though details are yet to be released.
Beer, including the pub’s own Hicce IPA, will come exclusively from the Goodness Brewery, the Haringey-based micro-brewery, while the wine list will similarly focus on small-batch producers and will change weekly.
Lacey said of the new project: “I’m so excited for us to open our second place. And, to do it with existing ambitious members of the Hicce family, is the dream come true. I can’t wait for them to flourish and see the hicce hart become the heart and soul of the local community.”
McIntyre added: “I personally have a massive love for the pub world; its culture, history, its standing within the community. Having spent so much of my working life in and around pubs I owe them for a vast majority of the people I hold dear. The pub is one of the few real levellers in life: it showcases the beauty of multicultural London at its finest. To have the privilege to become custodians of such a historical site is a real honour.”
The pub will open from Tuesday to Sundays, with Mondays closed.
