The team behind Hackney restaurant Sune will open a new pub and restaurant in Smithfield Market in November, The Standard can reveal. Husband and wife team Charlie Sims and Honey Spencer, together with business partner Spencer Large, have taken on a site at Smithfield General Market, part of a decade-long redevelopment and will open in tandem with the new £70m London Museum.
The trio have taken on the part of the building that once housed Bubb’s Le Restaurant Francais, a historic bistro made famous in the 1997 film Spice World (as Le Rendezvous), and a number of former wholesale shops and storehouses. Food and wine will be overseen by Spencer and Sims, as well as incoming executive chef Charlie Tayler, who joins from Simon Rogan’s Michelin-starred London restaurant Aulis.
