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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Wolseley duo have £1m High Court battle on their plate over rent row By Richard Eden for The Daily Mail Published: 19:08 EDT, 10 June 2021 | Updated: 09:21 EDT, 2 May 2024 e-mail 4 View comments They are the top restaurateurs whose fashionable dining rooms such as The Wolseley, Colbert and The Delaunay attract the rich and famous. But Chris Corbin and Jeremy King have been hit just as badly by the pandemic as less starry venues. And now, I can reveal, the pair are heading for a £1 million High Court showdown with one of their landlords, STJ Investments.
It’s a Jersey-based company believed to be controlled by Vladimir Zemtsov, a secretive Russian-born businessman who has Belgian citizenship but big property investments in London . Corbin & King Restaurant Group, which was forced to close their venues for much of the pandemic, owes more than £300,000 in rent for the Wolseley’s first-floor premises in Piccadilly, London, while the Wolseley Restaurant Property owes almost £1 million in unpaid rent, it is claimed. Chris Corbin and Jeremy King have been hit just as badly by the pandemic as less starry venues The pair are heading for a £1 million High Court showdown with one of their landlords, STJ Investments It’s a bitter blow for Corbin and King, who met in the 1970s when they worked at Langan’s Brasserie and Joe Allen’s respectively.
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