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It was billed as a Titanic battle: a gastronomic feud which would pit two of the nation's most flamboyant restaurateurs against each other for a fortnight in the hallowed arena of the high court.
But, yesterday, the eagerly-anticipated entertainment came to an abrupt end when Marco Pierre White, the enfant terrible of British cooking, claimed a legal victory and the right to continue trading at Titanic, his pounds 2m restaurant in London's West End.
White, the youngest chef to win a Michelin gold star and the first British recipient of three, had been taken to court by Oliver Peyton, the owner of the Atlantic Bar and Grill, on the grounds Titanic was a virtual replica of his own London restaurant - with the same clientele, imposing art deco style and address, in the Regent Palace hotel, off Piccadilly Circus.
Peyton, who...