Galvin City restaurant to be called La Chapelle

London chef-restaurateurs Chris and Jeff Galvin have confirmed that their City of London restaurant will be called Galvin La Chapelle.

The long-awaited restaurant is due to open in late autumn 2009 in the Grade-II listed St Botolph's Hall in Spital Square, east London.

Its name is a nod to the Rhône wine Hermitage La Chapelle, vintages of which will be stocked at the restaurant.

Chris Galvin said: "The wines from the Rhone Valley have a particular resonance with our cooking - visiting the area had a big impact on us and we wanted to bring this to our new restaurant."

The 290-cover Galvin La Chapelle, which will comprise a fine dining area, café, bar and outdoor terrace, is the third Galvin restaurant to open in London, joining sister eateries Galvin de Luxe in Baker Street and Galvin at Windows at the London Hilton Park Lane.

It has taken the Galvin brothers around two years to tie-up the deal after they were forced to abandon plans to launch a restaurant at London's Waldorf Hilton hotel.

It means the restaurant will now launch in a recession, although the brothers said they'd never considered abandoning plans to expand their business.