A Former Soho House Executive Is Changing London’s Restaurant Scene

Martin Kuczmarski is accustomed to considering the needs of tens of thousands of customers when he thinks about hospitality. As the former chief operating officer of Soho House & Co Inc., he oversaw the group’s expansion from a handful of clubs to a globetrotting empire.

These days, Kuczmarski’s detail-oriented focus is smaller, at least for now. Two years ago he quietly opened The Dover: the softly lit, American-Italian dining room in Mayfair, with a menu of crowd-pleasing dishes like spaghetti and meatballs, which quickly earned an ardent, not to mention star-studded, following.