The Penn At Stoke Park: The acclaimed chef opens a seasonal British restaurant at Reliance Industries’ revamped Buckinghamshire estate on October 26.
Tom Sellers is moving into the countryside. The chef behind the widely respected London restaurant Story is opening The Penn at Stoke Park on October 26, trading the intensity of a compact city kitchen for a sprawling estate in Buckinghamshire. The new venture sits within Reliance Industries’ recently restored property, a setting that signals ambition well beyond a standard country dining room.
Sellers built Story’s reputation on meticulous, ingredient-forward cooking that shifts with the seasons. The approach translates to The Penn as seasonal British cuisine, though the move to an estate environment introduces new variables: access to gardens, supplier relationships particular to the region, and the different tempo of a larger dining space. The restaurant launches as one of the year’s most watched new openings in the commuter belt, arriving at a moment when London-trained chefs continue to decentralize, seeking either land-based sourcing advantages or the cultural capital that comes with opening outside the capital.
For Sellers, the move represents a shift in scale and audience, though the culinary premise remains consistent: cooking that depends on what’s available and in season, executed with the precision that made Story a draw for serious eaters willing to book months in advance. The Penn at Stoke Park‘s October 26 launch date gives the restaurant a late-autumn opening, placing the new season at the center of its initial identity as London’s most ambitious countryside dining destination.
