Who’s Myrtle?

During our pandemic essential walks, we’ve noticed a restaurant near us named Myrtle. It must have been new as we hadn’t seen it open.

We didn’t give it much thought until one day while watching Masterchef, they mentioned that their guest chef on Episode 10, Anna Haugh has a restaurant in Chelsea. What?!?! Where?!? We googled her immediately, we learnt that Myrtle is her restaurant.

Mum quickly noticed a photo of Anna with a Pugzu – a cross between a pug and a Shih Tzu – and she’s called Myrtle, she knew she had to call the restaurant and asked if they are dog friendly.

And they are!!! Mum immediately booked us a table for when they reopen after we went into Stage 3 of the unlocking road map.

Now, contrary to what Mum initially thought, the restaurant was not named after Anna’s Pugzu called Myrtle. LOL! It was inspired by the late Myrtle Allen, the champion of Irish produce.

And since Anna hails from Tallaght in Dublin, we thought that for our first Myrtle experience, we asked Zeina and her Irish Doodle, Zac to join us, to complete our Irish experience!

Zac is only 5 1/2 months old – after his excitement of seeing us, he settled and did really well.

May’s comment: Anna Haugh founded Myrtle Restaurant in 2019.

It offers Modern European cooking with an Irish influence using the finest Irish produce. 

Everything was just exquisite! New to the taste.

Anna comes from a Michelin star pedigree. She has been cooking professionally for almost 20 years. She began with Derry Clarke at l’Ecrivain in Dublin to Gualtiero Marchesi’s restaurant in Paris. In the last 14 years, she worked in London for celebrated chefs Philip Howard, Shane Osborne and Gordon Ramsay. 

Myrtle Restaurant is located at 1A Langton Street, Chelsea SW10 0JL. Though dog-friendly, please call ahead of time and because the restaurant is small, they can only accommodate a certain number of dogs at each seating.