[2] McKenna is currently based in Beijing, China where he has opened a series of restaurants and catering businesses.
[2] McKenna got his culinary start at the age of 14 in the kitchens of ‘Ninety Park Lane’,[3] a three-Michelin-starred restaurant inside Grosvenor House Hotel in Mayfair, London.
[4] During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, McKenna’s hospitality group, ROOMbmk, cooked for wine-critic Robert Parker at an event on The Great Wall of China.
[6] In May 2015, Brian McKenna announced that he would close his namesake restaurant on 13 June after three years and cited, “demanding consulting projects, a new gastropub opening in August and an expanding catering company,” as reasons for his departure.
They include Molly Malone’s Gastropub and BMK Kitchen set to open in Autumn 2015 and early 2016 in central Beijing.