MY JERICHO

Branca

Now also a boutique hotel. Tour and tea.

This meeting was held on January 16, 2019

Looking eerily like the love-child of the late Lord George-Brown, one white eyebrow, one black, Paul Petrillo, manager / proprietor of Branca in Walton Street led the Jericho Community Association through the sumptuously refurbished hotel / restaurant.

The group of elderly murder suspects were trooped through the airy inner spaces and hidden gardens hewn from two long narrow Victorian properties. The very antithesis of what went before though incorporating its retrieved brick.

A live olive tree grows up to the ceiling, downstairs another dinner chamber, the sort of place Jesus would have used for the Last Supper if he had been middle class. Despite Westgate the kitchens are busy with Italian cuisine though Branca is also open to those who simply want to drink coffee free of piped music. There are a total of 35 employees. The ‘boutique’ hotel rooms will cost between £200 and £300 per night.

The whole place glitters like a film-set. Luckily, without requiring the attentions of Morse, Lewis or Marple, the group filed out into the night, appetites whetted.

Report by: Roger Howe

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