Londoner’s Diary
London’s best new restaurant Arlington, in St James’s, has been drawing glamorous diners in the weeks since it officially opened. But just a week in, the place’s famed maître d’ Jesus Adorno has handed in his notice. Adorno is an old accomplice of Arlington’s founder Jeremy King and the pair worked together for 38 years on its previous iteration, Le Caprice, the restaurant beloved by Princess Diana which occupied the same site. But now Adorno says he is resigning because “it wasn’t a good fit for me and I decided it wasn’t right”. We tried to quiz Adorno further on the reasons for his departure but he was unforthcoming.
