Tom Kerridge shrinks London restaurant to make way for new martini bar

Tom Kerridge is giving martinis more room to breathe at the Corinthia - (Milo Brown)

Eight years after opening his first London restaurant, Tom Kerridge has decided he would like a little more room for drinking.

Kerridge’s Bar & Grill at the Corinthia hotel will reopen on 5 September as two distinct spaces: a smaller, 57-cover restaurant called Kerridge’s and Georgie’s, a new, larger bar space. When the restaurant first opened in 2018, it had around 90 covers. The martini, evidently, has been doing well.