I visited London's grumpiest new restaurant where customers are SHAMED for not ordering enough By JOHN JAMES and JON BRADY Published: 02:34 EST, 24 November 2024 | Updated: 02:34 EST, 24 November 2024 e-mail View comments 'Will you lads be having anything to drink with your meal then?' A standard question for any waiter to ask, but in the Yellow Bittern, a tiny 18-seater bistro recently opened on London 's Caledonian Road, it's a pointed challenge with only one correct answer. It's an answer we're determined not to give. 'Just some water for us thanks, it's a bit early for us.
' Hugh Corcoran, the chef cum poet cum communist owner of North London's most controversial new restaurant stiffens and shuffles back to his makeshift kingdom: the open plan kitchen where he ladles out bowls of Irish delicacies to his high brow clientele. He never speaks to us again. Hugh Corcoran, the chef cum poet cum communist owner of North London's most controversial new restaurant: The Yellow Bittern Corcoran's new venture, which he co owns with Frances Armstrong-Jones and Oisín Davies, is less than a month old However Corcoran has already upset his customers by claiming some of them don't understand the concept of lunch A man with an unrefined palate and distinct lack of literary nouse grapples with a £20 Dublin coddle Corcoran's new venture, which he co owns with Frances Armstrong-Jones and Oisín Davies, is less than a month old but has already made headlines for all the wrong reasons.
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