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Thomas Keller to Open London Pop-Up Inside Harrods

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“London has always been something that’s been available to me but I just haven’t taken the opportunity yet,” says chef Thomas Keller. But now he’s perhaps testing the waters on the other side of the pond — Keller says he’ll put together a promotional, ten-day pop-up restaurant inside Harrods at some point soon. The exact plans are still TBA and sound iffy, but we know it will be an amalgam of French Laundry- and Per Se-style perfection — and that many a British foochebag will no doubt be clamoring for a seat. Keller says this isn’t a path to his opening a permanent London restaurant, but does reveal that if he were to, it would, hypothetically, be a three-year process. [Big Hospitality]

Thomas Keller to Open London Pop-Up Inside Harrods