{"id":1142912,"date":"2026-08-11T14:11:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1142912\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T14:11:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:11:34","slug":"lunette-is-florence-knights-first-solo-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1142912\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunette Is Florence Knight’s First Solo Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"

The former Sessions Arts Club head chef will launch her rooftop restaurant this autumn<\/p>\n

Florence Knight, the game-changing chef who helped launch\u00a0Sessions Arts Club<\/a>\u00a0and was previously head chef of Polpetto in her twenties, is opening her first solo restaurant, Lunette, this September. The 30-cover space on the 11th\u00a0floor of the Nick Jones-owned St Clement hotel follows\u00a0Cafe Clement<\/a>\u00a0as the latest buzzy food opening at 180 The Thames.<\/p>\n

Knight has been working on the project since leaving Sessions Arts Club two years ago and, while exact dish details are still under wraps, we know the seasonal set menu will be \u201cdeeply personal\u201d to the chef. She says: \u201cMy food is not about being \u2018clean\u2019 or \u2018natural\u2019. It is about being true to taste and form \u2013 creating dishes that excite me, and that I want to eat myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sessions Arts Club is one of the most beautiful restaurants in the city, and it looks like Knight is bringing her eye for design to Lunette, too. Plates are by Tetsuya Otani and Michel Francois, bespoke uniforms come from Alex Eagle Studio and handblown glassware is by Alexander Kirkeby, all set within the Brutalist framework of 180 Thames.<\/p>\n

Knight certainly has a talent for memorable openings, so we\u2019re expecting big things \u2013 and a lot of celebrity sightings \u2013 from this one.<\/p>\n

\"\"Credit: Paul Scala\"\"Credit: Paul ScalaKey Information<\/p>\n

Opening date<\/strong> | Mid-September 2026
Address<\/strong> | Level 11, 180 The Thames, London WC2R 3DA
For more information<\/strong> |\u00a0lunette.london<\/a><\/p>\n

FEATURED IMAGE CREDIT: Paul Scala<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Sessions Arts Club head chef will launch her rooftop restaurant this autumn Florence Knight, the game-changing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1142913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,124993,4884,257,293887,105961,16,15],"class_list":["post-1142912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-food-drink-news","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-new-opening","tag-temple","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117077284322970294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1142913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}