“There’s Nothing Else Like This Here”

Along with the chef’s business partner, Jeff Zalaznick, we’re sat in the private dining room of Carbone London, a gastronomic playground hiding underneath the new Chancery Rosewood hotel above. We met a month out from launch, but things are already looking pretty polished. Tables are set; the bar is laden high with bottles. If it wasn’t for the full wait-staff team receiving training on the dishes they’d be serving as we walked in, it looked like they were ready to open…