Back of the net: chef James Cochran will open his new spot next month
(Picture: Press handout)James Cochran, the celebrated London chef best known for Islington restaurant 12:51, has announced his latest project — a sports bar he’s “been searching for my whole life”.
Cochran and the 12:51 team will open Valderrama’s — named for Colombian football great Carlos Valderrama — on July 7, promising beer, cocktails and a menu taken from the chef’s lockdown-born takeaway project, Around the Cluck. It will open five minutes’ walk from 12:51, on Upper Street and, somewhat unusually for a new opening in 2022, will be open seven days a week.
