Gilgamesh (restaurant)
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Established | June 2006 |
Head chef | Dean Light |
Food type | Asian cuisine |
Street address | Chalk Farm Road, Stables Market |
City | Camden, London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 51°32′32″N 0°8′53″W / 51.54222°N 0.14806°WCoordinates: 51°32′32″N 0°8′53″W / 51.54222°N 0.14806°W |
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Gilgamesh Restaurant Bar & Lounge is a restaurant and bar in Stables Market, Camden, London, opened in June 2006. Despite its Mesopotamian name and theme, the restaurant typically serves South East Asian, Chinese and Japanese-inspired eclectic cuisine.[1]
Theme
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As the name might suggest, the restaurant is inspired by the Sumerian king Gilgamesh.[2] Furnished with dark wood and heavy furnishings, its owners claim its reliefs and carvings are the work of over 10,000 workers from Northern India.[3] It contains a range of exotic imagery, and is intended to evoke the mystique of the Babylonian era. Its interior is said to be an "ostentatious replica of a Babylonian palace".[4] The tables and chairs are also supposed to be reminiscent of those of the palaces of Ancient Babylon. The London Restaurant Guide describes its bar as being like a theme park, and says, "This is one of those restaurants that sets great store by glitz and it certainly seems to strike a chord with a clientele that isn't too "bovvered" about the food, preferring cocktails, champagne and celebrity."[5]
Celebrity connection
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The restaurant is popular with celebrities, such as Johnny Vaughan, Lisa Snowden, Sarah Harding, David Gest and Carol McGiffin, who has cited it was her favourite restaurant in London.[6] In April 2011, chef Gino D'Acampo allegedly requested to be seated in a section of the restaurant in Camden that was not being used, but lost his temper when staff would not let him sit where he liked and left.[6] He later launched an attack on Twitter on the quality of the restaurant's food, despite not having been served a meal, although fellow chef Andrew Nutter joined D' Acampo in denouncing the restaurant, remarking, "I have actually paid double just to make sure I will never return to the restaurant again."[6]
References
- ↑ "Dining". Girugamesh Restaurant Bar & Lounge. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
... influenced by the cuisine of South East Asia, China and Japan ...
- ↑ Metzelthin, Pearl Violette Newfield (2007). Gourmet. Condé Nast Publications. p. 46. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- ↑ Rahim, Ali; Jamelle, Hina (2007). Elegance. John Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-02968-8. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- ↑ The New Yorker. F-R Pub. Corp. 2006. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- ↑ Campion, Charles (4 September 2008). London Restaurant Guide 2009. Profile Books Limited. p. 263. ISBN 978-1-84668-143-1. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- 1 2 3 "Celebrity chef 'storms out' of restaurant after table row". The Telegraph. 14 April 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
External links
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- Official website
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- Video of the restaurant
- New Google Business Photos 360 degree tour of Gilgamesh Restaurant courtesy of Red Wheelbarrow Photography