Marco Pierre White's son loses another restaurant

The son of chef Marco Pierre White has lost another restaurant. Luciano Pierre White, also a chef, opened Italian restaurant Luciano's in Woking, Surrey, in early 2022, but it failed, and was formally dissolved on Sept 5 with just £31.94 in the bank. When the business collapsed, it owed £100,000 to HM Revenue and Customs, official documents revealed. Luciano's restaurant closed also owing more than £150,000 to 26 creditors, according to a winding-up notice on Companies House. Another branch of Luciano's, in Exeter, Devon, went under in May 2025, having gone into administration in 2023. Accounts for the company had not been filed since 2022. A third restaurant, in Dorchester, Dorset, opened in September 2020, but also folded. When it opened, his father told the Daily Mail: "He doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke, and he's very good with money." Luciano has been dogged by poor online reviews of his restaurants. In a review earlier this year by one customer of the Rudloe Arms, a hotel and restaurant in Wiltshire that his father renovated in 2021, Luciano was described as "very arrogant and rude". The customer wrote on the Tripadviser website that: "Luciano shouted out, 'You are a typical Wowcher guest who won't pay their bill'. How rude and wrong was he." In 2023, a waitress working at the Woking restaurant successfully sued Luciano for £10 in unpaid overtime, having waited months for payment. Alicia Lourenço worked an unpaid trial shift at the restaurant in April 2022, but was promised payment for overtime. She claimed that when she confronted managers about the underpayment, they were aggressive. An employment tribunal awarded her £30, to be paid within seven days. Luciano trained with his father, who in 1995 became the youngest chef to earn three Michelin stars. Other chefs who trained with the Marco Pierre White include Gordon Ramsay, Shannon Bennett and Mario Batali. Luciano worked under Pierre Koffman before moving to Barcelona to cook with Albert and Ferran Adrià. He then helped open his father's The English House, in Singapore, in 2018. It "temporarily closed" in February, with a social media post stating: "We will be taking a break to rejuvenate and assess the current economic situation. As we take this break, we will also be relocating outside of Singapore." Marco Pierre White was a well-known enfant terrible, regularly ejecting customers from his restaurants if he took offence to their comments, and famously once charging a City worker £25 for chips, which weren't on the menu. Earlier this year he praised Nigel Farage as "very impressive", despite describing himself as "a true socialist", and criticised the Government for its lack of understanding of hospitality. He said: "It's tough. Restaurants are going bust every week, hotels are struggling. If you look at the pubs, they're closing down." Luciano and Marco's company Black and White Hospitality have been contacted for comment.