The Henderson Supremacy

It started with a phone call and ended on a motorbike, so recalled the then-Margot Clayton. “I was working at The Eagle in Farringdon,” she says, “and I met Fergus and his sister Annabelle there one Sunday.” The following day, Annabelle Henderson pops back into The Eagle, and Margot sends some information back down the wire. “I said, ‘Oh, your brother and I should open a restaurant together.’” Fergus, an architect and west London gourmand of some repute by this stage in 1991, was intrigued. “He called me that night and said, ‘I don’t know why we haven’t thought of it before. When do you finish work?’”