{"id":675366,"date":"2026-01-05T12:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/675366\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T12:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:14:15","slug":"top-new-york-chef-jody-williams-to-bring-buvette-to-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/675366\/","title":{"rendered":"Top New York chef Jody Williams to bring Buvette to London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body-skinny\">The restaurant will take over the former St John Bakery site in Covent Garden\u2019s Neal\u2019s Yard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body-skinny\">Williams launched Buvette in Notting Hill in the midst of the pandemic but closed it in 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body-skinny\">Late last year, it was announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.restaurantonline.co.uk\/Article\/2025\/10\/17\/st-john-opens-new-neals-yard-bakery-and-bar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.restaurantonline.co.uk\/Article\/2025\/10\/17\/st-john-opens-new-neals-yard-bakery-and-bar\/\">St John Bakery would move to a larger site within the same development.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body-skinny\">Buvette\u2019s second London incarnation will operate as an 80-cover, all-day \u2018gastroth\u00e8que\u2019, with additional seating on a yard-side terrace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body-skinny\">Open from breakfast through to late evening, Buvette is described as being designed for spontaneity and will cater for everything from morning coffee and lunch to post-theatre cocktails and dinner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body-skinny\">Williams launched Buvette in New York\u2019s West Village in 2011 and has since expanded the concept to Paris, Tokyo and Seoul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body-skinny\">A James Beard Award-winning chef and restaurateur, Williams also operates Via Carota, I Sodi, The Commerce Inn and Bar Pisellino in New York alongside her wife, Rita Sodi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The restaurant will take over the former St John Bakery site in Covent Garden\u2019s Neal\u2019s Yard. Williams launched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-675366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115842440428752962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675366","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=675366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}