Bookings being taken at star chef’s new restaurant
RESERVATIONS ARE being taken from today at the newest restaurant from the Michelinstarred Yorkshire chef, Tommy Banks.
His new venture, Roots, opens on Marygate in York next month with a menu that includes Smoked Bone Marrow and Smoked Eel Doughnuts – and to drink, Marigold Martinis.
Mr Banks is chef at The Black Swan at Oldstead, between Thirsk and Helmsley. It is one of only five restaurants in the county to hold the Michelin award and was last year named the best in the world, on a list of 25 compiled from votes on the TripAdvisor website.
The new venue, a joint venture with the restauranteur Matthew Lockwood, is said to bring Mr Banks’s “innovative and holistic approach to hospitality to an urban environment”.
He said: “’We are all incredibly excited about our second restaurant, opening in the heart of York.
“Work is well under way in all areas and I am enjoying getting stuck into creating a new and unique menu for the city.”
The Black Swan was originally taken over in 2006 by Mr Banks’s parents, farmers Tom and Anne Banks, and transformed into an upmarket restaurant with the help of their sons – Tommy in the kitchen, and his elder brother, James, front of house.
With no formal culinary training, he was believed, at 24, to be the youngest chef to hold a Michelin star.
The launch of the new restaurant coincides with the publication of a recipe book, also called Roots.