The Vincent Rooms Restaurant, London SW1P 2PD, Restaurant/cafe

The Vincent Rooms Restaurant

Restaurant/cafe

76 Vincent Square
SW1P 2PD London
United Kingdom

Phone: 02078028391

Website: http://www.thevincentrooms.com/

Opening times:
Mon 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Tue 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Wed 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Thu 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Fri 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

A Brief History…In 1908 a consultative committee which included Isidore Salmon, Auguste Escoffier and Cesar Ritz was established to design training programmes in professional cookery in readiness to produce graduates that could work in London’s finest hotels. Within a couple of years, the school had added food service to its course portfolio and a training restaurant was opened. Records show tha...t this was in fact the UK’s first Hospitality School established in 1910, at what was later to become Westminster Kingsway College. The school developed during the interwar years as additional kitchens, cold rooms and larder and pastry areas were added. A two-year Hotel Manager’s course replaced the food service course. There were plans for a 50 bedroom 'training hotel’, which had begun construction in 1939. This unfortunately was stopped as a result of the outbreak of war and was never completed.

Following the Second World War, the Vincent Rooms restaurant was extended, and in 1953 the Escoffier Restaurant was opened. Further kitchens were added as well as a wine cellar. The restaurants have evolved over a considerable period of time alongside the School of Hospitality and Culinary Arts at Westminster Kingsway College producing graduates who are now working in Hotels and Restaurants all over the world. In 1985 there was a substantial and comprehensive refit of the whole school.

When the School of Hospitality achieved Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) status, a considerable investment was made in creating the modern brasserie restaurant that exists today. As recently as the summer of 2005, the Escoffier room was developed to reflect contemporary trends in fine dining and with great attention to each element of this style of service. Today, the two restaurants are able to fully complement one another and the style of service and menus offered, enable diners to choose between two very different experiences.

To make a reservation you can email restaurant@westking.ac.uk
alternatively call 0207 802 8391