Everything Tatler knows about Mark Hix, including the latest news, features and images. I made it very clear that it was not my decision and that I was very disappointed.’ ‘We were left with no information,’ his long-term colleague and assistant Jo Harris tells me later. He has bought the fixtures and fittings, taken a new
lease, and The Oyster & Fish House (note
the absence of ‘Hix’ – ‘It’s best to start from scratch,’ says Jo Harris) is set to reopen in days at the time of going to press. ‘He’d go netting for sprats with his friends then disappear for a few weeks, so I went to live with my grandad.’, His grandfather, Bill, was everything from the local publican and a grower of prize chrysanthemums to the mayor of Bridport and a district councillor. If you forget something in the bedroom, you don’t have to go up two flights of stairs to get it. You don’t get that in Borough Market.’, Hix’s parents split up when he was six years old, and he was separated from his brother Kevin. His for £8,000, the Hix Oyster & Fish Truck – complete with a gas grill, burner, doubler fryer, two large fridges, a bain-marie and a water heater – is stationed in the car park of Felicity’s Farm Shop, for which Hix pays a daily rent. I’ve already got a lot in storage, particularly lights, which I often get from the Paul Smith shop in Mayfair.”, Which property on The Modern House website has particularly caught your eye over the years?“The converted barn in Assington, and also The Gasworks in Gloucestershire. That’s an Australian Moreton Bay Bug [on the ceiling]: it’s a sort of prehistoric crab. It’s also easy to get to any of my restaurants… I nip over London Bridge to get to the Oyster & Chop House. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. 1,119 Likes, 158 Comments - Mark Hix (@markehix) on Instagram: “In these tough times we need to think about how we do business and a couple of months ago I was…” The ‘Vacancies’ neon piece is a Peter Saville art piece that he made. You can pour it over MDF to create curves at the edges, and you don’t get joins. If I was to put money on who would survive it would be a good, large chain because they have the backing… but then, as I discovered, you might have backing but you don’t have control…’. An old Land Rover Defender pulls up and out comes a lady clutching small pots of jam. ‘I sell jam and do swapsies,’ she says, handing Hix some eggs. Mark Hix on the cover of the Daily Telegraph magazine, in which he describes how he lost everything due to COVID-19. Lockdown saw him posting cooking videos on Instagram filmed by Isla (he also has twin daughters, Ellie and Lydia, 25, from a previous relationship). The kitchen lights are from Trainspotters in Gloucestershire, and I’ve collected midcentury Stilnovo lights over the years. I visit at least two of my restaurants every day. He was walking near his home, a houseboat in Chelsea, when he received a call from his soon-to-be-ex business partner. I go back to Lyme Regis maybe three weekends a month. But unlike many of them, he wasn’t destined for a life in the food world. THE esteem in which top chef Mark Hix is held in the culinary world was demonstrated when The Daily Telegraph magazine last weekend published a cover story on how the Lyme Regis restaurateur lost his empire and has had to start again rebuilding his business and … Explore British GQ to find out more including articles on fashion, grooming and culture. “I made the garden room because the little terrace is quite small. He’s also known some of the fishermen since childhood. I recently put them in touch with my friend Robin Hutson, who owns The Pig Hotels, so they’ve done the last two projects for him. I’m not really in the kitchen any more; I’ve got lots of other things to look at, mostly overseeing the creative side. ‘I’d built the team up over 12 years,’ he says. I wanted simple, natural oak units, something that would wear in naturally. But in the ensuing days, friends of his and keen observers of the restaurant business wondered if this news really was caused by Covid-19. ‘I make my own balsamic,’ he says. “The photographs above the bed are by Susannah Horowitz – she was one of the winners of the Hix Award. The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. We already run…” • See all of @markehix's photos and videos on their profile. I’ve had a couple of dinner parties here. So now he's starting over, Chef Mark Hix had it all: fame, critical acclaim and five restaurants employing 130 staff. It is just so much easier to have everything on one floor. The latest Mark Hix news and features. It has been a battle ever since, and just before this piece went to press a deal was struck: the trademark is his again, but he’s so well-known he can open a restaurant without using his name, and his truck is technically a fishmonger. ‘He was my other inspiration. By Mark Hix 8 April 2021 • 11:00am 'When the buyer came to tow away my classic 1970s speedboat, there were no tears and no regrets over having to sell it' Credit : Nicholas JR White Hix entices her to take home some clams and cockles for a vongole: ‘The clams are on the house.’ He suggests they could also be steamed before adding a dash of vinegar. The refrigeration guy that I use for my restaurants converted it and made the top bit to match the bottom. Every Thursday afternoon we sat in his flat drinking and talking about food.’. Hix’s restaurants fed A-listers from actor Mia Wasikowska to singer Christina Aguilera, and played host to awards-season parties whose guests included Rita Ora, Alexa Chung, Harry Styles and Tinie Tempah. Although the press are using, and will use, my name as the responsible director this was not my decision. He gathered them together in his vast Tramshed restaurant in east London. She eyes Hix’s whole sea bass while he chats about his salmon, from the remote Loch Duart in Sutherland. This time it’s Trish Maunder, another local smallholder and maker of Somerset membrillo. ‘I was ploughing through a bottle of wine thinking about how I’d suddenly gone from five restaurants to zero when I decided to go on to eBay and look for mobile food trucks. 1,709 Likes, 598 Comments - Mark Hix (@markehix) on Instagram: “Dear Friends, I echo the words of Rick Stein this week and all others in our hospitality business…” Order a side of Flodge smoked salmon ‘Hix cure’ to enjoy at home. Free home delivery Mark's Bar at Home. I was really in the s—t. Mark Hix takes a trip through Tuscany - Italy's foodie paradise By Mark Hix 9 May 2018 In the land (and sea) where cuisine and culture meet, the GQ chef puts boar and barracuda on the menu Instead he finds himself starting again. When Robin buys old buildings for the hotels he clears them out, and he’s given me a few salvaged things for the flat – a shower and some old Crapper loos. The Mark Hix Negroni puts a very British twist on a classic Florentine mix By Mark Hix 14 February 2021 It's one way to make your lockdown evenings more tolerable… I’m part of the local community, I suppose. ‘It’s great to have it back,’ he says, ‘someone was on my side. The same with the bookcase. So I’m starting again with a food truck' Chef Mark Hix had fame, critical acclaim and five restaurants. Well, I’m pleased to say that…” In 2007, aged 44, he resigned to start his own business. We gutted the whole thing, taking it right back to the bare bricks. Mark Hix: 'Even as I write about reopening, I can feel the buzz' This week Mark is making plans for the grande reopening, and getting back to the pub kitchen By Mark Hix 11 Mar 2021, 11:00am But, he says, ‘I phoned the ex [actor Lara Cazalet, with whom he has an eight-year-old daughter, Isla] and then rang some key members of staff and some of our suppliers. “I … At the start of 2020 he could have reasonably expected to look ahead to a soft landing from the rigours of the stove: a few nice consultancies, cookbooks here and there, occasional forays on to TV. The fridge came from an antiques shop in Paris. He is a man whose name has been attached to some of London’s most iconic restaurants, from The Ivy to Le Caprice, and establishments from extravagant Mayfair to trendy Shoreditch. Chef Mark Hix had fame, critical acclaim and five restaurants. 1,982 Followers, 1,614 Following, 649 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Mark Hicks (@thetalentedmrhicks) I like to blend mid-century stuff with scaffold planks and a bit of new. I like the idea of something that’s reusing an industrial building. All these characters who come here. After 17 years as Chef Director at Caprice Holdings, he opened his first restaurant in 2008 – HIX Oyster & Chop House in Farringdon.Following the success of Chop House Hix opened HIX Mayfair, HIX Soho, HIX City and his chicken and steak concept restaurants Tramshed in Shoreditch, and Hixter Bankside. With the extraordinary edifice of Damien Hirst’s Cock and Bull – a Hereford cow and a cockerel preserved in a tank of formaldehyde – towering over them, Hix delivered the news that his restaurants were closing for the foreseeable future. I’m close to lots of bridges here! Because they’re old, they’ve got a bit of character. Mark Hix announces restaurant closures across the board. Hix ended up working at those very hotels, his first job in the capital being at the staff canteen at the Hilton on Park Lane. The response has been overwhelming.’ Propped up by an art collection – bought and bartered for over the years, and available for further swapsies – childhood friends, loyal staffers and the foodie characters of the Jurassic Coast, Mark Hix
is one man who can definitely come back from
losing his own name. After their joint venture was created in 2016, he became a minor shareholder in his company. Celebrity chef Mark Hix has appointed administrators, throwing the future of this restaurant empire into doubt as Britons stay at home due to the coronavirus lockdown.. My friend Richard, who’s a search agent, showed it to me on The Modern House website, and I zipped straight over on my scooter to take a look. And then, as Covid-19 hit, his food empire was left in tatters. Great or small, no hospitality establishment has been immune to the dreadful havoc wreaked by Covid-19. There’s a shop across the road – a sort of Lithuanian shop – and they were selling what I thought was a mandolin, but I couldn’t work out why it was so big; it turns out it dates from 1903 and was used for slicing white cabbage. A friend of mine said, ‘If I get a Fender guitar sponsored, can you ask Tracey Emin to draw on it?’, and she did. “I designed the space, and then Tekne worked as the contractors and architects. Underneath are pieces of cast concrete from Retrouvius; I think they were originally columns in a mid-century office block. I’m going to move the lodge to a friend’s land and rent it out, and then build a two-storey wooden house. Cooker hoods are normally so boring, so we went to a foundry and made a semi-industrial-looking unit that’s wrapped over the top of a normal extractor. In the evenings the pair would watch Fawlty Towers and The Two Ronnies together, ‘both of us laughing while he was doing invoicing or writing minutes for a town-council meeting’. In an Instagram post, Hix said: “This was a board decision, and I have to point out, done without my support. Mark Hix posted on Instagram: “Who wants to come and work with me at @foxinncorscombe and @theoysterandfishhouse ? View this post on Instagram. In fact, at the age of 13, he won a golf competition, and his fellow juniors went off to become pros. 25.1k Followers, 450 Following, 1,750 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Mark Hicks (@markbuildsit) Mark Hix is joining Soren Jessen’s City restaurant 1 Lombard Street as director of food and drink to oversee its menu offer. His father had custody for a while but was frequently absent. Mark Hix has confirmed that administrators have been appointed to his restaurants and Hix Townhouse after "undoubtably the toughest couple of weeks ever". It’s the worst thing that has ever happened to me in my business life.’, His business partners and investors at WSH are a major owner of restaurants, delis and more. They did my Bankside restaurant, Hixter, and the one in Soho. Here he tells William Sitwell why he is making a fresh start selling fish on the A35. ‘My fish doesn’t need to travel to Brixham market and back [as with many fishmongers], it goes straight from the harbour to my truck. It had a horrible Chinese painting on the front, so I got my artist friend Mat Collishaw to make a replacement. ‘I’m a fishmonger. 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So I bought a thousand tickets for £1,000 to narrow the chances down! “I’ve got a house down in Dorset, near my restaurant there, which is one of those Scandi lodges that you can just pick up and move. We went back to the natural brick on the wall behind, which would have been the end wall of the original factory. Missing your favourite Hix cocktails? It’s a nice place to have tea in the morning. There’s a collaboration in London with restaurateur Soren Jessen; Hix has become director of food at his 1 Lombard Street premises. I said yes straight away. ‘I can put it on saucepans, T-shirts, sex toys, but not restaurants.’ Hix received a letter a few days before our interview, from Deloitte, the administrator, offering him the opportunity to buy back his name for £11,000. Mark Hix has just sorted your first post-lockdown trip to the pub for you By Thomas Barrie 25 November 2020 Chef and restaurateur Mark Hix is opening a … By day a young Hix might hang out by the harbour or go fishing but, he adds, ‘Grandad was my inspiration to get up and do things.’. Chef restaurateur Mark Hix has announced he is to open a new restaurant on the site that was formerly HIX Oyster & Fish House in Lyme Regis. English sparkling wines: Mark Hix's picks By Mark Hix 26 August 2017 Restaurants on these shores have long since supplanted our continental cousins, and now our oenophiles are taking a … It’s amazing how much space you can get for the same price outside of London.”, Read More: Feast Your Eyes: six beautiful dining rooms perfect for any festive dinner, My Modern House: chef and food blogger Anna Barnett talks cooking and communal living in a converted East End pub, From the Archive: Niki Turner Interior - Stroud, Gloucestershire, What We're Seeing: California at the Design Museum, Feast Your Eyes: six beautiful dining rooms perfect for any festive dinner. ‘All the [fresh] fish I sell is from local suppliers I know well,’ he says. ‘I cure it in 80 per cent rock salt, 20 per cent Billington’s molasses for 10 hours, then cold-smoke it in oak in my back garden for another 10 hours,’ he says. We played around with materials: the wine racks are made out of scaffold planks picked up from building sites around here – some we paid for and others we were given for nothing. “Space was the main consideration, but I’ve found that Bermondsey is a really interesting area. The rooflight was already here; it was quite a weird space before, with a pool table and not much else.”, Mark, what’s your definition of modern living?“I guess it’s whatever you want it to be. I gave them the ideas, and they put it all on paper. 725 Likes, 215 Comments - Mark Hix (@markehix) on Instagram: “Every day on my truck I get asked what’s happening to the Fish House? A post shared by Mark Hix (@markehix) And in between now and then, just in case the spring sunshine lets us down and we … Five months ago, Mark Hix MBE, seasoned restaurateur, chef and all-round food-industry legend, was at the helm of five restaurants employing some 130 people. “This place is my home, and I also do some work from here: writing and experimenting. ‘There were tears in my eyes. We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Today, all tousled hair, unshaven face and eager grin, he’s standing on the A35 behind his new venture: a food truck, just a few miles from Bridport where Hix grew up, and close to Lyme Regis where he ran the much-loved Hix Oyster & Fish House. ‘I’ve started again from scratch,’ he says. It was a decision to do domestic science at school that propelled him towards the kitchen, although his intentions were not initially culinary. And this one isn’t from the Hix Award: it’s just two fucking flamingos with a little bird watching… I forget what its name is! ‘It was shocking.’ Hix’s staff were unable to take advantage of the Government furlough scheme, a loss he found ‘incredibly difficult and upsetting’. It was made in the 1800s – originally they would have put a block of ice in the middle compartment to keep the whole thing cold. Antonia Mottola is a local smallholder. Going into administration was their call, not his. Mark has recruited the former manager and head chef of the HIX Oyster and Fish House and a spokesperson confirmed that they were hoping to revive the hugely successful Food Rocks festival in Lyme Regis, which ran for seven years. ‘I use the dregs of local cider, put it in a wooden barrel and add some pickled walnut juice.’ Hix is at one with the locals, all of whom recognise him. T wait for us to open on 27 July side of flodge smoked salmon is available! 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