[img=310,208]http://eburyrestaurant.co.uk/upload/images/Elizabeth_Windridge(2).jpg" data-bd-imgshare-binded="1">[img=310,193]http://eburyrestaurant.co.uk/upload/images/The_Ebury3(1).jpg" data-bd-imgshare-binded="1">Elizabeth Windridge does the excellent festive decorations at Christmas. She decorates the interior and exterior of the Ebury Restaurant & Wine Bar every year and make it very festive and feel very welcoming. It all adds to the ambiance when people are enjoying their Christmas meal.
Elizabeth also decorates the interior and exterior of the restaurant throughout the year and makes sure that the flower and table decorations are always at their best!
Nigel Windridge – 40 Years at The Ebury Restaurant & Wine Bar
[img=180,225]http://eburyrestaurant.co.uk/upload/images/Nigel_Windridge(1).jpg" data-bd-imgshare-binded="1">Nigel together with his three co directors bought The Ebury Wine Bar, established in 1959, from the previous owners in November 1973. On Tuesday 12th November, 2013 Nigel will have been one of the custodians of The Ebury, as it’s been affectionately known by customers from home and abroad, for 40 years!
While on duty as The Manager on his first night, he served only one customer, Sarah Churchill, a local and daughter of Winston, who relentlessly recited her poetry to him across the Bar from opening hours until closing, when with her Carer he struggled to help her into a taxi, as over the course of the night she had become over refreshed!
Fortunately, for Nigel and his other directors business picked up after the first night, which went from strength to strength and allowed the Ebury Directors to open eight other London Wine Bar Restaurants. They also owned and operated a Wine Importing Whole Sale Business from 178 Ebury Street, servicing their own establishments, private customers, and other Trade customers, including the Hunan Chinese Restaurant, in Pimlico Road.
Happily for Nigel he met his wife Elizabeth who was waitressing at The Ebury Wine Bar and became engaged to her after 'walking out' together for six weeks! They celebrate their 36th Wedding Anniversary in May next year. Normandy Tour 2013
A select party of Nigel and Elizabeth’s friends and customers, departed from The Ebury Restaurant & Wine Bar early on Friday morning 15th October to visit the Normandy Second World War Battlefields.
The four day tour which included three very comfortable nights at the new Hotel Villa Laura in the delightful City of Bayeux, was guided by the experienced and charming Colonel Kerry Woodrow, who was accompanied by Jane McCrum. Jane has been a loyal and long-standing customer of The Ebury, and it was her company 'In Any Event Tours' that had made all the arrangements.
For more photos and a full itinery please read the pdf. Bon voyage and the best of luck![img=310,200]http://eburyrestaurant.co.uk/upload/images/Rupert_Bairamian.jpg" data-bd-imgshare-binded="1">
Rupert Bairamian photographed at The Ebury Wine Bar in characteristic pose enjoying a glass of Moutard Champagne with Proprietor Nigel Windridge and Manager Trent Williams. They are raising a glass to wish him bon voyage and good luck before he heads off ’down under’ to Sydney to start a new life with his Australian wife Katherine and young son James.
Rupert has worked for the Wine Wholesaler, Hallgarten Druitt, (The Eburys main wine supplier) for the past 17 years.
As a regular club cricketer and batsman who has enjoyed playing for several wandering Cricket Clubs including The Blue Mantles and Stragglers of Asia, no doubt Rupert will not only be able to offer the Aussie’s some good wine but also show them how to score some runs, when they try to take back the “Ashes” from England this coming winter! Read how a long-standing partnership was forged[img=120,149]http://eburyrestaurant.co.uk/uploads/image/Valentines_Belgravia_Magzine_small(1).jpg" data-bd-imgshare-binded="1">
Belgravia magazine ran a Valentine's special this February to celebrate romances that have blossomed in Belgravia. Anyone who visits the Ebury Restaurant & Wine Bar will know of the excellent partnership between Nigel and Elizabeth Windridge, the co-owners of the Ebury Restaurant and Wine Bar. To read the article please click here.
In memory of Yvonne Ottet 1921-2011
[img=110,145]http://eburyrestaurant.co.uk/uploads/image/Yvonne1_small(1).jpg" data-bd-imgshare-binded="1">[img=110,141]http://eburyrestaurant.co.uk/uploads/image/Yvonne3_small(1).jpg" data-bd-imgshare-binded="1">Yvonne Ottet passed away on Monday 5th December having just reached her 90th birthday on 29th October.
For 38 years of her life she was the classically and elegant Maitre d’ of The Ebury Wine Bar, a venerable establishment founded in 1959. She would have been delighted to hear that the Ebury made the Michelin Food Guide in 2012.
Yvonne loved her customers who she called her big “Darleeings” planting a kiss on either side of the cheek on their arrival and departure and for her special “Darleeings” three kisses and a hug!
[img=180,110]http://eburyrestaurant.co.uk/uploads/image/Yvonne4_small.jpg" data-bd-imgshare-binded="1">It is her radiant face which generations of our patrons will remember when they think of the Ebury. In fact, it could be said that Yvonne was the Ebury; she will never be forgotten.
For those of you who knew Yvonne click here to read our tribute to her.
To find out more about Yvonne's involvement with The Ebury click here.
A change of scene at the Ebury[img=490,243]http://eburyrestaurant.co.uk/uploads/image/Robert_GordenSmith_mural.jpg" data-bd-imgshare-binded="1">
The wonderful trompe l’oeil wall decorations at The Ebury Restaurant & Wine Bar have been extended recently with a new dramatic scene behind the service area, depicting the view from a Provençal kitchen window looking out across a vineyard to the hills beyond.
[img=100,137]http://eburyrestaurant.co.uk/uploads/image/Robert_Gorden-Smith.jpg" data-bd-imgshare-binded="1">Roberta Gordon-Smith, the artist, specialises in trompe l'oeil. She studied fine art painting at Chelsea School of Art and then as a tutor at the University of the Arts, London. Initially concentrating on decorative art and children’s murals, she developed architectural techniques to produce scenes on the grand scale for corporate and private clients such as Harrods, Cowdray Park, Butler and Wilson, Knowle Hall, Joe’s Brasserie as well as The Ebury Restaurant & Wine Bar. Other notable clients include Mark Knopfler, Boy George, Alexei Sayle and Lord and Lady Cowdray.
In 1981 she formed her company Artyfacts and in the 1980s and 90s worked with interiors photographers for many magazines, notably David Montgomery for Vogue,House and Garden, Country Homes and Interiors, Inspirations, Ideal Home, The Evening Standard, The Sunday Telegraph and The Sunday Times. She also collaborated on the production of large scenic backdrops for Harrods, pop videos and advertising for Sanderson fabrics and Percheron. The work entailed developing and creating new modern painting techniques to use decoratively in the home and commercially, using colour washes and distressed paint effects. She developed all the classical techniques of marbling, faux stone and wood graining using water based paints and acrylic varnishes, because oil and spirit based paints were hazardous to work with and were liable to change colour.
She now works all over the world in France, Spain, Ireland, Germany and Barbados, and is based in London and Spain.
She has written two books on techniques: Trompe L'oeil and The Trompe L'oeil Home (published by David and Charles) and runs painting holidays based in Spain. For more information visit www.trompe-loeil-interiors.com or email[email protected]. More about the Ebury Restaurant & Wine Bar
One of the oldest, most successful and popular restaurant/wine bars in London, the Ebury Restaurant & Wine Bar in SW1, located on the corner of Ebury Street and Elizabeth Street in the heart of Belgravia has been open since 1959 and enjoys a large following from tourists and residents at home and world-wide. The reason for this success: lots of atmosphere for a social drink with a witty and sustained ‘trompe l'oeil’ décor and starred cuisine for lunch, bar meals, a la carte dinners or a special occasion.
The cooking – a blend of Modern European cuisine and innovative dishes – has won huge acclaim among gourmets and the 'gastro media'. There are bar meals for the light eaters and a range of gluten and dairy-free menus. As might be expected from a well established restaurant/wine bar, an adventurous and exciting list of fine wines by the glass or bottle.
In a nutshell, the Ebury offers gourmet food at wine bar prices – a rare distinction these days.
We are also able to cater for bar meals, lunch and dinner parties for up to 35 throughout the week in the lower part of the restaurant, so please ask us about set menus and reduced menus for larger groups celebrating a special occasion.
The Ebury Restaurant & Wine Bar, close to Buckingham Palace, Sloane Square, Victoria and other popular tourist destinations in SW1, is open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner. Why not try our popular Saturday brunch or visit Sunday for a relaxing lunch or dinner.
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