Fine dining restaurant gives people who faced homelessness a fresh start, with Monica Galetti as head chef

London: A north London restaurant is relaunching with a new name, a charity status, and a mission to help people who have experienced homelessness build careers in hospitality.

Formerly Home Kitchen, the venue reopens on 8 May as 130 Primrose at 130 Regent’s Park Road. Chef, broadcaster, and MasterChef judge Monica Galetti joins as executive chef and trustee. The project recruits, trains, and employs people with lived experience of homelessness, offering paid work, accredited training, and a pathway into long-term jobs.

When Positive News visited last year, the polished Primrose Hill dining room was serving scallop ceviche, guinea fowl, and monkfish from the former Odette’s site. Behind the scenes, it was testing whether fine dining could open new routes into work.Now a registered UK charity, 130 Primrose keeps that mission at its center with a new menu and Galetti leading the kitchen.