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Our new home on Charlotte Street is now open. Creative, culinary or cultural, whatever you’re into, you’ll be sure to find inspiration in our ever-changing line-up of extraordinary experiences. We’re talking big name chefs from all over the world, workshops, talks and masterclasses, award-winning events and a crowd-pleasing menu of seasonal snacks and small plates from our new neighbourhood wine bar. All hand picked by us, for you.

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GUEST CHEF RESIDENCIES · WINE BAR · WORKSHOPS & MASTERCLASSES · EVENTS

Our new home on Charlotte Street is now open. Creative, culinary or cultural, whatever you’re into, you’ll be sure to find inspiration in our ever-changing line-up of extraordinary experiences. We’re talking big name chefs from all over the world, workshops, talks and masterclasses, award-winning events and a crowd-pleasing menu of seasonal snacks and small plates from our new neighbourhood wine bar. All hand picked by us, for you.

Romy Gill

January can only mean one thing. Another bountiful feast of vibrant West-Bengal-meets-the-West-Country flavours from chef, food writer, author and broadcaster, Romy Gill MBE.

DATES: 25th - 29th January

Wine Bar

We’ve opened a neighbourhood wine bar. Our crowd-pleasing menu of seasonal snacks and small plates is accompanied by a lively selection of minimal intervention wines and some of our all-time favourite cocktails.

DATES: Tues - Sat 12pm-11.30pm, Sun 12pm - 5pm

Nargisse Benkabbou
L'MIDA, MARRAKECH

Bringing a 'breath of fresh air' to Moroccan cuisine, Nargisse is a best-selling author and executive chef of L'Mida, Marrakech, where each dish is a joyful celebration of her heritage. If you’re not already a fully-fledged Moroccan food fanatic, get ready to be speedily converted.

DATES: 1st - 5th February

Iñaki Bolumburu

Iñaki has been popping up around the world with a succession truly stunning tasting menus that reflect both his proud Basque heritage and his culinary adventures in the kitchens of Mugaritz, Pure C, Noma and Nerua, where he learnt from the very best. Next stop, London.

DATES: 8th - 12th February

Romy Gill

January can only mean one thing. Another bountiful feast of vibrant West-Bengal-meets-the-West-Country flavours from chef, food writer, author and broadcaster, Romy Gill MBE.

DATES: 25th - 29th January

Wine Bar

We’ve opened a neighbourhood wine bar. Our crowd-pleasing menu of seasonal snacks and small plates is accompanied by a lively selection of minimal intervention wines and some of our all-time favourite cocktails.

DATES: Tues - Sat 12pm-11.30pm, Sun 12pm - 5pm

Nargisse Benkabbou
L'MIDA, MARRAKECH

Bringing a 'breath of fresh air' to Moroccan cuisine, Nargisse is a best-selling author and executive chef of L'Mida, Marrakech, where each dish is a joyful celebration of her heritage. If you’re not already a fully-fledged Moroccan food fanatic, get ready to be speedily converted.

DATES: 1st - 5th February

Iñaki Bolumburu

Iñaki has been popping up around the world with a succession truly stunning tasting menus that reflect both his proud Basque heritage and his culinary adventures in the kitchens of Mugaritz, Pure C, Noma and Nerua, where he learnt from the very best. Next stop, London.

DATES: 8th - 12th February

Wine Bar

Wine Bar

L'MIDA, MARRAKECH

Nargisse Benkabbou

L'MIDA, MARRAKECH

Nargisse Benkabbou

Iñaki Bolumburu

Iñaki Bolumburu

“The award-winning culinary collective gets better and better, with ever-improving menus and inspirational guest chefs”

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“If any London restaurant might be able to answer the restless and demanding contemporary appetite, it’s Carousel”

Vanity Fair

“Carousel is a foodies’ heaven”

Elle UK

“Carousel has launched the careers of dozens of superstar chefs and established itself as the place to find the next big thing in dining.”

Culture Trip

“…pioneering a new form of hip gastro pop-up”

How To Spend It

“A three-story creative hub that hosts a turntable of food pop-ups with a rotating cast of stellar international chefs”

Goop

“Chefs come aboard for two-week residencies and then spin out into a world of new-found fame. The programme has launched the careers of many young chefs…”

Condé Nast Traveller

“Most restaurants will be happy to host a residency once a month or so, but Carousel has made a full-time virtue of it”

The Times

“If it’s not one cheffy legend working this space, it’s another. For each, the week at Carousel is a chance to have a dalliance with a new capital’s culinary culture”

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Stories

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Chef Stories At the pass with… Lee Westcott

It was an absolute dream to work alongside our friend…

Chef Stories Made You Look x Carousel

In this special dinner series, six of the most talented…

Chef Stories At the pass with… Joo Won

It's been a blast working alongside our pal Joo Won.…

Uncategorized Earth Day Hamper with The Botanist Gin

Stories

Recipes Guajillo Chilli Oil

There's nothing better than an afternoon spent in the garden…

Chef Stories At the pass with… Lee Westcott

It was an absolute dream to work alongside our friend…

Chef Stories Made You Look x Carousel

In this special dinner series, six of the most talented…

Chef Stories At the pass with… Joo Won

It's been a blast working alongside our pal Joo Won.…

Uncategorized Earth Day Hamper with The Botanist Gin

Carousel on Camera

Five years, one hundred and fifty residencies (and counting)… We’ve documented some of our favourite moments from over the years in glorious Technicolour.

From Niklas Ekstedt on his greatest influences to Shaun Presland on life as an Aussie “tucker f*cker”, there’s a lot to be learnt when you take a glimpse behind the scenes. Pop the hood and take a look inside…

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Wine of the week.

This beauty is from @jhmeyerwines.

Fun fact? If you flip it over and read the back, you'll get to see Johan naming the type of soil in which each of the grapes have grown.

Think bright red fruits with earthy undertones.

Wine of the week. This beauty is from @jh

Beef tartare, piled on toast, topped with red pepper relish and finely sliced radishes.

We're not saying it's one bite situation, but we're also not not saying that either.

Beef tartare, piled on toast, topped with red pepp

Some of the highlights from @pablo.lagrange's (@latextilbcn) menu.

Pablo, never short of a little of smoke and char, is serving up these ridiculously ridiculously good looking dishes this week.

The last few tickets are available through the link in bio.

Some of the highlights from @pablo.lagrange's (@la

Next week...

January can only mean one thing. Another bountiful feast of vibrant West-Bengal-meets-the-West-Country flavours from chef, food writer, author and broadcaster, Romy Gill MBE.

Returning for a fifth Carousel residency, Romy will be lighting up our new kitchen (not literally) with a week of white hot zingers like her ‘Amritsari Masala Marinated Mackerel with Tamarind Chutney’, ‘Spicy Crab with Nigella Seed Flatbread’ and ‘Laal Mass Wild Boar Curry’.

The following week, we've got best-selling author and executive chef of @lmidamarrakech, Nargisse Benkabbou @mymoroccanfood, in the kitchen. She'll cooking up a feast of inspired dishes, each a joyful celebration of her Moroccan heritage.

Book your tickets for both via the link in bio.

Next week... January can only mean one thin

Jersey milk ice cream. Nothing else.

We played with adding more to this dish, but sometimes you can’t improve on perfection.

(Swipe for a vid of @templetonollie lovingly plating)

Jersey milk ice cream. Nothing else. We played wi

THIS WEEK

Pablo Lagrange
@latextilbcn (Barcelona)

Our grande amigo argentino Pablo Lagrange returns for his third spin on the Carousel. Now at the helm of LA TEXTIL (@latextilbcn), an impressive new culinary and craft beer laboratory housed in a giant warehouse in Barcelona’s Gothic quarter, Pablo has been having a wild time with the Josper grill, exploring cold-smoking textures, ashes, aromas and colour. Pablo's menu shows off the full gamut of mind-blowing techniques honed in the kitchens of Noma, Relæ and Mugaritz.

Taking a break from his residency for this Saturday lunchtime workshop, the Argentine king of the crimp, will be teaching guests how to roll their own dough, before making two kinds of empanada, accompanied by homemade banging chimichurri and criolla sauces.

Book your tickets via the linkinbio.

THIS WEEK Pablo Lagrange @latextilbcn

Rumour has it, it's engagement season.
If you're looking for a wedding venue, we happen to have a beautiful airy space that could be just the ticket. Oh, AND we have a team that can bring it all together for you.

Check out the website for more details, or give our team a call on 02074875564.

Rumour has it, it's engagement season. If you'

The final piece of the Carousel Fitzrovia pu

Snacks do not have to be bitesized. In fact, they're better when they're not - @templetonollie's salami, comté and celeriac remoulade, a case in point.

Snacks do not have to be bitesized. In fact, they'

This week’s resident chef is Julie Caute @damejane_ @damejaneresidence.

We snapped some of her absolute standout dishes including cured scallops with an artichoke and celeriac emulsion and deep fried silken tofu with gochujang Mayo.

Swipe for a close up on the olive oil and oat ice cream 🍦

Final tickets via the link in bio.

This week’s resident chef is Julie Caute @dameja

Come and join our restaurant manager @gigiisola for a night of natural wine tasting.
What does your ticket get you?
5 GLASSES of Gigi's favourite wines (*no tiny sipping portions over here*) served up at the high tables of our new wine bar and accompanied by all the treats on our bar snack menu. Click on the link in bio to book yourself in.

Come and join our restaurant manager @gigiisola fo

Sundays are for lunching. On the menu for our first Sunday service tomorrow - amongst other things - is this tasty number: bavette, beetroot, hazelnut & watercress salsa and Jerusalem artichoke crisps from @templetonollie. Perfect on its own but even better with the mother of all potato dishes (more on that soon…).

📸 @hannahindia.e

Sundays are for lunching. On the menu for our firs

Next week…

𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐞
@damejane_ (Belleville, Paris)
11th-15th Jan

Dame Jane is the low-key, low-intervention Parisian wine bar par excellence. A mainstay of Belleville’s thriving dining scene for the past seven years, its enduring popularity is all down to the brilliance of Julie Caute, an instinctive, inquisitive, self-taught talent who dispensed with the rulebook the day she stepped into the kitchen to fill the gap left by her erstwhile head chef (bon débarras!).

Guided by the seasons, and with a few magic ingredients up her sleeve, Julie’s cooking packs a serious punch. Think ‘Deep Fried Silken Tofu, Gochujang Mayo, Fried Capers, Herbs Salad, Lime’ and ‘Grilled Mallard, Fermented Persimon, Salsify, White Cabbage, Verjus Vinaigrette, Horseradish Aïoli’.

Julie doesn’t do subtle, which makes her wonderfully original, technicolour cooking the perfect antidote to the torpor of a wet and windy London January.

Book in via the website.

Sun’s out on Charlotte Street. Perfect conditions for getting acquainted with the wine bar. We’re open from midday. Swipe left for the menu ☀️

Sun’s out on Charlotte Street. Perfect condition

This week…

𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐥 𝐱 𝐃𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬
@𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚜𝚝.𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚒𝚗
𝟺𝚝𝚑-𝟾𝚝𝚑 𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟸

Ichiban Dashi | Yuzu

Nori | Fresh Greens | Umeboshi

Carrot | Sake Kasu

Kumquat | Shrimp | Dashi Jelly

Miso Crisp | Sunflower Seeds | Koji Honey

Fermented Beef Donut | Kanzuri | Egg White Garum

Abura-age | Arima Sansho | Leeks

Smoked Daikon Agedashi | Miso Broth

Sea Bass | Bok Choy | Yuzu Kosho

Potato | Chestnuts | Egg Yolk

Mackerel | Oyster | Lacto Bread Koji Broth

Shiitake | Chawanmushi

Lamb Rib | Kyoto Sichimi | Pickles

Milk Ice | Caramelised Seaweed

Burned Sunflower Seeds | Apple | Bee Pollen Garum

One of our fave moments of 2021. Our first team outing to Charlotte Street, before the building work began. Here’s to many more special memories in our new home. Happy new year from all of us 💕

Photos by @ariana_ruth

One of our fave moments of 2021. Our first team ou

Our doors are open again from the 4th January. Join us in the wine bar from midday for “uniformly excellent” (@hotdinners) small plates from @templetonollie and the team, or get yourself booked into our first guest chef collaboration of the year with @dmoudios, who’s with us until the 8th.

Right now you’ll find Dimi in the kitchen of @ernst.berlin, where he’s part of a three-man team serving 30-course tasting menus to just eight lucky guests at a time.

Embracing Ernst’s Japanese-inspired approach, Dimi’s own style of cooking is all about “flavours, textures and finding ways to get the best out of every single ingredient”.

The talented young Greek’s fifteen-dish Carousel tasting menu is a procession of elegant, perfectly balanced dishes like ‘Nori | Fresh Greens | Umeboshi’, ‘Sea Bass | Bok Choy | Yuzu Kosho’ and ‘Lamb Rib | Kyoto Sichimi | Pickles’.

Prior to Ernst, Dimi cut his teeth at fine dining restaurants in Switzerland and Germany, later moving to @boragoscl in Chile (no. 38 in the world), where he headed up the legendary R&D team, and @restaurantalchemist in Copenhagen, the two-star Michelin temple of multi-sensory delights.

Dimi has plans to open a place of his own later this year, but first, Charlotte Street…

LINK IN BIO ⬆️

📸 @projoe.photography

Our doors are open again from the 4th January. Joi

Merry Christmas everybody. We’re joined in January by @dmoudios of @ernst.berlin (Berlin); Julie Caute of @damejane_ (Paris); and @pablo.lagrange of @latextilbcn (Barcelona). Head on over to our website for details. See you in the new year folks x

Merry Christmas everybody. We’re joined in Janua

It’s been nine months since we first looked arou

Our opening month hasn’t quite worked out as planned but it’s sure been one hell of a ride. Thank you to everyone who’s jumped on the Carousel so far. You guys rock. And to our amazing team who have kept on smiling as we’ve gradually slipped back into a parallel universe.

Today will be our last day before we close up for Christmas. A little earlier than anticipated but it feels like the right call under the circumstances.

Join us in the wine bar from now until closing for snacks, small plates, some pretty epic specials and a kaleidoscope of wunderbar wines chosen by @gigiisola and @ella_mccabe._ Please spare a thought for Ella who, on top of everything else, has had her bike stolen, her house broken into and her 30th birthday party cancelled in the space of 24 hours. WT actual F?!

We have a bottle shop licence so you can pick up some bangers for the festive season while you’re at it. Whatever happens, you’re going to need good wine. We’re doing 30% off our regular list prices for takeaways.

If not today, then see you on Charlotte Street sometime in the new year.

Big love.

Carousel x

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25th – 29th January

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1st – 5th February

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Iñaki Bolumburu

8th – 12th February

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15th – 19th February

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