Worthing fine-dining restaurant set to open this summer

Three-time rosette-winning Johnny Stanford – the former head chef of AG’s at Alexander House Hotel – plans to open a new establishment called Tern this summer.

It will be a fine dining restaurant set on the first floor of the southern pavilion of Worthing Pier, known as Perch on the Pier. The company also recently announced plans to open a new pizza restaurant in the town.

Worthing is fast becoming a haven for food lovers and now the town ‘may well be on it’s way to boasting its first Michelin star restaurant’, a spokesperson for Tern said.

Johnny is thrilled by the opportunity to open Tern this summer and is ‘driven to create an experience that is sure to delight and surprise guests in equal measure’, Tern said.

Johnny said: “It’s such a privilege to have this opportunity to open my own restaurant in such a prominent, beautiful and beloved place.

"The space itself is stunning, and I am incredibly excited to be able to call this iconic landmark a home, and to get to write another part of its history.