joined the team after joint owners Nigel Platts-Martin and Bruce Poole made the decision to expand the business by buying the shop next door to the restaurant.
This in turn helped expand the dining room and create a new private dining facility to seat 14 guests for the Michelin starred restaurant.
Restaurant group
La Trompette is the third establishment opened by Bruce Poole and Nigel Platts-Martin following Chez Bruce in 1995 and The Glasshouse in Kew in 1999. La Trompette opened two years later in 2001 in Cheswick.
Food style and menus
Aside from a lunch and dinner menu the restaurant also includes a special tasting menu. Under Rob’s guidance the food at La Trompette continues to expand on Bruce Poole’s high-end modern approach to French food.
Current highlights from the dinner menu include chargrilled Cornish squid, chickpeas, green harissa, cucumber and shaved fennel; crisp suckling pig shoulder, grilled hispi cabbage, muscatel grapes, chilli and garlic; Roast grouse, creamed polenta, kale, Scottish girolles, damson and elderberries and blackberry and bramley apple crumble soufflé, vanilla ice cream.
The food has been described by the Michelin guide as "free of unnecessary adornment, so the focus remains on the top quality ingredients".
