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23/06/2026

We are completely fu**ed for sous chefs. In both sites.

We’ve been fu**ed for so long that it’s just become the new normal.

You’ll see some job adverts that will talk about them having a ‘rare opportunity to join the team’. This isn’t one of those. The only thing rare is when a potentially capable human turns up for the interview and isn’t completely off their head.

Utkarsh & Adrian have been supported brilliantly by their longstanding CDPs for quite sometime but with the level of business we are doing in both sites now, it’s just not sustainable and we need people with a bit more under their belt experience wise.

I don’t really know what else to say. Maybe grown up chefs think by the style of this insta that we aren’t serious. We are serious. We like to win. We win. We try and better ourselves everyday. We question everything - how we can improve the smallest annoying details / where we can buy the best of this and the best of that / where are we going for drinks after service / where the f**k are we going to find a sous chef?

This isn’t really a job advert. It’s a shameless cry for help. The applicants through agencies have been nowhere near the calibre and sometimes feel they will try and wedge in anybody. I’ve been stuck in these four walls for so long (as have many of the rest of the longstanding staff) that my contact list is as dry as my gran’s Christmas dinner. Maybe I need to get out more. Maybe my gran could have a crack at the sous chef job?

I could go on about the “competitive salary” bu****it and lead you up the garden path but what’s the point. It’s £40k a year. We only take about £25k a week AVG so it’s what we can afford right now. It’s not stupid hours and you don’t have to travel to central London. I think we are good people and you’ll be allowed creative input in to the menu.

At this stage I would even let England win the World Cup if we found a Sous Chef. That’s how fu**ed we are.

E-mail your CV to [email protected] and I’ll arrange an interview with Alex or Alan as the state I’m in I’ll probably put you right off.

Craig 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

17/06/2026

Even if VAT does get lowered to 10%, we still won’t make any money on this - 1986 for £19.86.

There are some amazing people spearheading the campaign. I’m not intelligent enough to stand up and talk about why this should happen (I also think I’d be taken off air 47 seconds in to Newsnight) but it’s pretty obvious that something needs to change.

But I would also say, that it’s always been this f**king hard. We’ve never made more than £0.05 profit from £1 in the till in the decade of having home. Let that one sink in.

The game we are all playing hasn’t changed - It’s just this one is a bastard of a level right now and a lot of us don’t have many lives left.

The reduction might come, but it might not so we will continue to play what’s in front of us.

With this in mind, we are now removing the time restrictions our 1986 menu. Monday to Friday. 3 courses for £19.86. F**k me it sounds ridiculous when you type it out when a Domino’s stuffed crust will set you back more.

There are some midweek nights in Barnes where we do less than 10 covers - what the f**k is that about? It’s a much more closed off community compared to Putney and so we need a smaller audience to be able to come more than once a month. (Although with the size of some of your houses you should be coming once a day ffs)

So 1986 is now available any time, Monday to Friday. We aren’t shying away from this or dressing it up to be something that it’s not - We need more of you midweek and you need something that’s affordable.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk now get your arse down here for dinner. Craig x

17/06/2026

17/06/2026

I asked Alan to buy a new blackboard for the desserts.

12/06/2026

Proud to be Putney!

Humbled that you people of Putney picked us as your ‘favourite restaurant’ in the Positively Putney 2026 awards.

Thanks for hosting Liam and Hansen last night… I promise this is Hansen’s happy face.

Positively Putney

08/06/2026

Are you really that sorry though?

28/05/2026

Can’t park there mate.

☀️ BBQ SUNDAYS
🍖 Grills
🥗 Salads
⚔️ Skewers

Replacing the Sunday Roasts in both sites for June, July & August but testing this Sunday (31st May) to limited covers as we will probably c**k something up because I’ve apparently only given the guys four days notice. They should stop complaining now tbh, getting boring now.

Utkarsh’s Tandoori chicken, beef kofta, sticky pork belly, BBQ prawns & aioli, miso aubergine and as much salad as you like.

“It sounds like summer time”

26/05/2026

Worst stag do ever.

Thank-you for continuing to trust us with these mad pop-up ideas that we usually come up with half cut.

Pol Roger? More like Putney Roger - you wiped us out by 5pm are were happy to have it served by a man dressed as a hotdog.

Stay classy Putney ❤️

(Thankyou for the half time refreshments)