Les 110 de Taillevent closes in London after 11 years
The Gardinier family's wine-by-the-glass restaurant in Marylebone has entered creditors' liquidation, with liquidators appointed earlier this month.
Les 110 de Taillevent, the Gardinier family's wine-focused French restaurant in Marylebone, has closed after eleven years. Its operating company, Taillevent Operations Limited, entered creditors' voluntary liquidation this month, according to Companies House filings reported by Restaurant Online.
Duncan Coutts and Rupen Patel of Coots & Boots were appointed joint liquidators on 9 October. Laurent Gardinier, one of three brothers who run the family's Paris hospitality group, remains the company's sole listed director. Neither Les 110 nor the liquidators had commented publicly on the closure.
Companies House records show the business was incorporated in 2014 to run the Cavendish Square site, backed by brothers Thierry, Laurent and Stéphane Gardinier. There had been no public sign of financial distress before the liquidation filing appeared this month.
A cellar list is a promise to drink seriously, glass by glass, not just by the bottle.
A cellar built around 110 wines
The restaurant opened in 2015 as the London outpost of Les 110 de Taillevent in Paris, itself a spin-off of Le Taillevent, the family's two-Michelin-starred flagship near the Champs-Élysées. Its defining idea carried straight across the Channel: every dish on the menu came paired with four wines by the glass, spread across different price brackets, drawn from a cellar of more than 2,000 bins.
The format let diners taste Burgundy, Bordeaux and Rhône producers by the glass that would otherwise sit unopened for a single table. It gave the 110-cover dining room, set inside a converted 1920s office block, a following among London's wine trade as a place to drink seriously without committing to a full bottle.
A harder year for central London's wine rooms
The closure lands in a tougher stretch for premium, wine-led dining rooms in central London, where several operators have pointed to rent reviews, energy costs and a softer corporate lunch trade through 2026. Marylebone's cluster of destination restaurants has otherwise kept investing this year, from the reopened Cloth Cornhill in the City to the Michelin Guide's latest additions to Great Britain.
Le Taillevent in Paris and its sister brasserie, also called Les 110 de Taillevent, continue to trade. The family has not said whether the London brand will return in another form. For now, the Cavendish Square lease reverts to the liquidators, who will handle any sale of fixtures, including the racking built to hold 2,000 bottles.
