Restaurant Reviews

Marco Pierre White Should Be Ashamed of His Latest Wheeler’s Outpost

The venue, in the Threadneedle Hotel in the City of London, is an insult to the neighborhood

Source: Holly Pickering via Bloomberg; photographs: Bob Carlos Clarke, from "White Heat 25," published by Mitchell Beazley. With thanks to The Little Black Gallery

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By Richard Vines

April 15, 2015 at 5:00 AM UTC

Marco Pierre White's management style was as extraordinary as his food in the 1990s when he was one of the youngest chefs in the world to win three Michelin stars.

Cooks who failed to live up to his standards were punished by being sent to stand in the corner. It was not unheard of for all four corners of the kitchen to be occupied simultaneously. Another punishment was to be placed in a rubbish bin.