Korean-American celebrity chef Akira Back is to make his European debut with a restaurant at the new Mandarin Oriental Mayfair hotel, which is scheduled to open in Hanover Square next winter. The chef made his name at the Yellowtail Japanese Restaurant & Lounge in Las Vegas, where his signature dish is tuna pizza, and also […]
Mayfair’s venerable Guinea Grill is running a pop-up supper club on Thursday and Friday nights through the summer in a former Pizza Express across the road. Upstairs at 23 will offer a changing set menu celebrating seasonal British produce. The Grill, which specialises in high-quality British steaks, is tucked away behind the Guinea pub in […]
Sketch in Mayfair has stripped out the pink decor and David Shrigley artworks from its Gallery brasserie – one of the most distinctive restaurant interiors in the country – and replaced it with African-themed designs featuring artwork by Yinka Shonibare, to be unveiled next Thursday (March 3). The British-Nigerian artist has created 15 pieces for the […]
Richard Caring has outlined plans for his most spectacular and decadent restaurant yet. Bacchanalia, in Berkeley Square, Mayfair, will channel the atmosphere of Ancient Greece and Rome, and promises to make his Sexy Fish, a near-neighbour, look like a vicarage tea party. “Bacchanalia was a festival of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll,” he declared boldly – […]
Claude Bosi and Samyukta Nair are joining forces to open a Riviera-style restaurant in Mayfair this summer. Named Socca, it will occupy the South Audley Street site which formerly housed Richoux, the century-old French tea house which closed amid pandemic losses a year ago. The business partnership between the Lyons-born chef, patron of Bibendum, and […]
Sarap, the first Filipino restaurant to make a real impact on the London culinary scene, is to open a West End branch this month in Mayfair’s Heddon Street. Its signature dish will be Lechon suckling pig, slow-roasted whole and stuffed with lemongrass aromatics and truffled adobo pork rice, to be ordered 48 hours in advance […]
Langan’s Brasserie, the ultimate celeb haunt of the early 80s, reopens tomorrow (Saturday 30 October) following a complete refurbishment and under new management. A Mayfair magnet for paparazzi in its glory years, Langan’s slid into administration last year after closing in the March lockdown. It has been rescued by Peter Dubens of Oakley Capital, and […]
Rohit Ghai, the most prominent of the Indian chefs to have established themselves in London in the past decade, marks his return to Mayfair this autumn with the launch of a new restaurant, Manthan, on the Maddox Street site vacated by Dhruv Mittal’s well-received Lucknow 49 when it closed down in August last year. It […]
Poutine is having a moment in London, with the opening of two new restaurants that put the legendary Quebecois take on chips at the centre of their offering. West 4th in Parson’s Green, named after Vancouver’s West 4th Avenue shopping and dining thoroughfare, is an all-day brunch restaurant that turns into a wine bar by […]
Spanish brothers Alberto and Arian Zandi have announced details of their third London restaurant – El Norte, opening in Dover Street, Mayfair in November. The identical twins hail the debut as the cornerstone of an international luxury brand that will do for Spanish cuisine what Nobu or Zuma did for Japanese and the Cipriani for Italian. Shortage […]
