Jamie Barber
British restaurateur
Jamie Barber (born in 1971 in Hampstead, London) is a British restaurateur, founder and CEO of Hush restaurant in Mayfair, London, the Hache Burgers chain and the Cabana Brazilian Barbecue group. He also founded and co-owned restaurants including Villandry, Japanese restaurant Sake No Hana, and the Italian casual dining brand, Kitchen Italia.
Barber studied at Bristol University and trained as an entertainment lawyer at media law firm Harbottle & Lewis where he acted for clients including Sir Roger Moore. In 2000, he left Harbottle & Lewis to work with Sir Roger's son, Geoffrey, to create a new venue, Hush, with founding shareholders including Evgeny Lebedev, Geoffrey and Sir Roger Moore. He has since opened two smaller Hush brasseries in Holborn, and St Paul's in May 2013. In May 2014, Hush Mayfair received the prestigious "Test of Time" award at the Tatler Restaurant Awards. The award recognises restaurants over 10 years old which, in the words of host/Tatler Restaurant Awards editor Jeremy Wayne, "are still as good as the day they opened". In 2017, Hush's popular cocktail bar, Aviator, received the "Best Bar in London" award at the London Club & Bar Awards.
In November 2011, Barber and his business partner, Momo Restaurant founder David Ponté, opened Cabana, a small group of casual Brazilian street food restaurants.
In May 2015, Barber became one of a high-profile consortium, dubbed the 'super eight', to have backed a £5m funding round for Reds True Barbecue, a fast-growing chain of Yorkshire smokehouse restaurants.
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