The hotel's impressive entrance on Grosvenor Square
If you've walked through Grosvenor Square at any time over the past few years, you'll have seen the huge development taking over what used to be the US Embassy on the western side of the square. It's now The Chancery Rosewood, sister hotel to the Rosewood over in Holborn.
We popped our heads in on the first day of their soft opening to take a look at this much-anticipated hotel. Not all the restaurants are bars are open just yet, but here's what you'll find there.
Serra: London loves a Mediterranean restaurant right now, and that's the space that Serra is filling at the hotel. The restaurant is led by Chef de Cuisine Alex Povall, last seen as Executive Chef at Berenjak in Soho, so it'll be interesting to see his take on Mediterranean and Greek cuisine (Now open on soft launch).
The menu is a crowd-pleasing mix of crudo, pasta and sharing dishes. Think hand-dived scallop carpaccio with peas and marigold, Durrus cheese flatbread with hot honey, ricotta gnudi and spiced lamb shoulder to share.
The dining room at Serra
Serra also boasts a rather nice standalone bar space on the corner facing Upper Brook Street.
The cocktail bar at Serra - pretty much everywhere we saw is flooded with natural light.
Tobi Masa: Chef Masa Takayama has proved to be a big hit in the Harrods Dining Hall, but his time has come to an end there and he is instead opening his first full UK restaurant inside the hotel. We're told it will be a Mayfair interpretation of his three-Michelin-starred restaurant in New York (Opens 16 September 2025). Read more about Tobi Masa.
Jacqueline: You can't open a London hotel without thinking about afternoon tea, and it seems likely that Jaqueline will be filling that gap. This is billed as a tearoom and dessert salon. (Open now). Running the show here is top pastry chef Marius Dufay who comes here from one of the world's best restaurants, Mirazur in the South of France but who has also worked for the likes of the multi Michelin-starred chefs Pierre Gagnaire and Christophe Bacquie.
The tea salon has its own tea room with more than a hundred varieties of tea, which can be custom-blended to your taste.
The pastries at Jacqueline are "inspired by single blooms and created using perfumery techniques."
Eagle Bar: This is the hotel's rooftop cocktail bar that also features the huge American eagle sculpture that the hotel inherited from its days as the US Embassy. There aren't many rooftop spaces in the heart of Mayfair, so this place should prove popular. There will be a listening bar aspect too, because are you really a proper new bar in London if you aren't a listening bar too? (Opens 1 September 2025). This opens at 5pm, so we didn't get a chance to look at it.
GSQ: This is the hotel's deli, serving up Assembly coffee, pastries, salads and sandwiches. It also has a large terrace space on the square. (Open now).
Carbone: This is the UK outpost of one of New York's most well-known restaurants, and one that is still frequented by A-listers over there. Carbone is a classic take on New York Italian food and the London outpost will be the most popular on the block. Although it's part of the same building, Carbone is a standalone restaurant and not actually part of the hotel. Read more about Carbone.
As a corner restaurant site on the ground floor, Carbone has an impressive terrace area.
But what about Le Caprice, you might ask. Earlier on, the hotel was said to be the location for the return of Richard Caring's Le Caprice. However, we've heard behind the scenes that things were touch and go on that launch and the hotel's PR seems to be in neither-confirm-nor-deny territory. The FT reported that the space previously reserved for this could be a restaurant by The River Café's Ruth Rogers, and that's a rumour that we'd heard too. So we'd say that's a strong possibility.
And are there maybe more announcements to come? There's room on the plans of the hotel for a big rooftop restaurant and none of the restaurants so far have been earmarked for that. So let's wait and see...
More about The Chancery Rosewood
Where is it? 30 Grosvenor Sq, London W1K
When does it open? Soft opening now but officially opening on 1 September 2025
Find out more: Visit their website or follow them on Instagram @thechanceryrosewood.
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