B Penhale opens opposite Smithfield Market on November 16
Camille's executive chef Elliot Hashtroudi takes the pass at a new British and Irish restaurant built around whole-carcass cooking, inside the former Club Gascon site.
B Penhale opens at 57 West Smithfield on 16 November, with Camille's executive chef Elliot Hashtroudi as chef patron and a British and Irish menu built around whole-carcass cooking.
The restaurant comes from the team behind Borough Market's Camille, which Time Out named its favourite London restaurant of 2026. Hashtroudi, Camille's executive chef, takes the pass himself at the new site, a short walk from the market that gives the kitchen its raw material.
The address carries its own history. B Penhale takes over 57 West Smithfield, the former home of Club Gascon, the Michelin-starred French restaurant that closed on the same site. It sits directly opposite Smithfield Market, the City's historic meat market.
Hashtroudi's whole-carcass instincts now get a British address of their own, right across from the market that supplies it.
Smithfield gets whole-carcass cooking
The menu leans on offal and lesser-used cuts rather than prime cuts alone, a style the team has described as “whole-carcass energy.” It extends the approach that built Camille's reputation, applied here to British and Irish produce rather than Camille's French bistro repertoire.
City of London licensing records show a premises licence variation filed on 1 October for the Smithfield address, the administrative step that usually precedes a firm opening date rather than a soft one.
The name points to family rather than to the menu: B Penhale, the team says, honours a grandmother, Betty, a detail volunteered without much further explanation.
A second test for the Camille team
Camille built its reputation on a tight, seasonal menu in a small Borough Market room. B Penhale is a bigger bet: a full-size site opposite one of London's most recognisable food landmarks, with Hashtroudi's own name on the door rather than someone else's.
Bookings had not opened at the time of writing. For another entry in London's autumn opening run, Delano London, Ennismore's first UK hotel, landed in the same stretch of the calendar. Smithfield itself is mid-transition, with the market due to move to Dagenham, so a kitchen built on carcass cuts arrives just as the trade it depends on is being pushed out of the City.
