Talking art at the new Mean Fiddler

 
30 January 2014

Vince Power has been everywhere, from Reading and Benicàssim in Spain to fields in Kent. Now the man behind the Mean Fiddler Group has pitched up in Ladbroke Grove to dust off an old boozer, the Kensington Park Hotel, and rebrand it KPH. “It’s the Mean Fiddler for a new era,” said Vince, pictured with PR consultants Anouschka Menzies and Virginie Bigand at the pub’s launch. Hadn’t Hugh Grant killed Notting Hill? “I don’t know,” he growled.

“What do you think?” KPH, once the haunt of serial killer John Christie, opened with a better class of clientele, with guests such as actress Anna Friel and fashion designers Kinder Aggugini and John Rocha. A big talking point was the story in the Standard about parents who encouraged their child to play on the Tate’s £10million Donald Judd sculpture. Rocha said he wouldn’t mind kids messing about with his creations, although “it depends whose kid it was”.

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