Knightsbridge

• Harrods parts ways with its big-name chefs, including Calum Franklin after just nine months

  

  Change is afoot at Harrods, where they seem to be making efforts to part ways with some (if not all) of their big-name chefs. This month sees the departure of three big names. 

  First off is the one that's perhaps the most understandable. Sushi by Masa, which currently takes up the main central space in the Harrods Dining Hall, is finishing up on 9 August. The chef, Masa Takayama, is opening ...

• Test Driving Tom Brown at The Capital, an impressive homecoming

  

  Tom Brown has returned to the dining room where he got his first big break in London. With his name now on the door, we went to Knightsbridge to see what the chef was cooking up. 

• New Knightsbridge spot Clap Ka-fe is hoping to go viral with its cute Japanese pastries

  

  They already run a sushi restaurant at the top of the building, now the Knightsbridge cafe CLAP London (we feel we've pretty much exhausted jokes on that name) has taken over the ground floor too. Their newest venture, CLAP KA-FE, is a more casual sort of place where you can either grab some sushi or Japanese pastries to go or eat in.

  Knowing how much Londoners love the thrill of a new bakery to try, we got an

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• Tom Brown at The Capital sees the Pearly Queen chef opening in Belgravia

  

  19/3/25 - updated with the opening date and menu details

  Last year, Tom Brown closed his Michelin-starred Cornerstone restaurant in Hackney. At the time, it was said that he was concentrating on Pearly Queen in Shoreditch as efforts to move Cornerstone to central London had fallen to the wayside. But Brown found another way to go central, and it's something of a

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• Test driving La Môme - Cannes comes to The Berkeley

  

  The Berkeley has unveiled its big new restaurant, La Môme, which originally hails from Monaco and Cannes. We went down to see how that translates to Knightsbridge. 

• Trullo is popping up with a three-month residency at Harvey Nichols

  

  Up until now, there's only been one Trullo, one of Islington's best restaurants, leaving aside its sibling restaurant Padella, of course. But now, at least for a short while, a second Trullo outpost is coming to Knightsbridge.

  The restaurant is kicking off a three-month

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• Alba restaurant aims to bring a taste of Amalfi to Knightsbridge

  

  Updated 9/1/25 with new opening date and photos

  Just in case you were thinking that London may have just reached Italian restaurant saturation, a new restaurant is banking on the fact that the city's desire for lovely Italian food is always a thing. Alba is a new Italian restaurant in Knightsbridge, opening right opposite Harrods, that's on a mission to bring a little bit of the Amalfi

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• Homeslice have brought their pizzas to Harvey Nichols Fifth Floor

  

  It's been a while since we've seen a new Homeslice opening (the last was in 2018) and for their latest, Mark and Alan Wogan have gone right up to the Fifth Floor at Harvey Nichols in Knightsbridge. 

  There, you'll find their signature huge 20" pizzas made with 36-hour aged dough, with pizzas on the menu including the traditional margherita as well as alternative takes like

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• Test Driving The Georgian - Harrods puts on the glitz with classic British food

  

  It's all change at Harrods where their classic Grade II listed restaurant The Georgian has been given a suitably glamorous new look with the arrival of chef Calum Franklin.

• La Môme London is the new restaurant at The Berkeley

  

  It's over a year since Marcus Wareing's restaurant at The Berkeley had its last service. Now the Knightsbridge hotel is getting ready for a new restaurant to take its place. They're bringing in restaurateurs Ugo and Antoine Lecorché to open a London branch of

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• Chef Rohit Ghai is opening Vatavaran restaurant and cocktail bar in Knightsbridge

  

  7/11/24 - updated with menu details and a look inside

  Six months after 'vibe dining' destination Geode in Knightsbridge closed its doors, a restaurant team that's related are now trying again in the same space. Michelin-starred chef Rohit Ghai is opening Vatavaran on the same site (his other restaurants Kutir and Manthan are part of the Arrow Mayfair Group and Arrow Hospitality was the company who

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• The Mayfair Chippy is bringing fish and chips to Knightsbridge

  

  10/10/24 -  updated with the opening date

  There really aren't many proper fish and chip shops in the centre of town but of them, The Mayfair Chippy has a pretty decent reputation.

  Just steps away from Oxford Street, their Mayfair restaurant has always been a draw for tourists but it helps that it manages to be good too. It might not be quite up to the standard of the average seaside

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• Calum Franklin to run the evening menu at Harrods' The Georgian revival (with pies)

  

  One of London's oldest dining rooms is about to reopen after a major makeover, and with a very well-known London chef to boot.

  The Georgian restaurant in Harrods has been welcoming guests for afternoon tea since it first opened way back in 1911. Since then it's played host to royalty and celebrities and had a number of refreshes over the years from the addition of Art Deco skylights in the 1920s to the most

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• Bar crawl: rainwater martinis and glorious London views at The Emory rooftop bar

  

  One of the world's best bars is popping up for a month at The Emory in Knightsbridge. We went to check out Tato Giovannoni's cocktails and bar food at their rooftop bar.

• Dim Sum by China Tang opens at the Harrods Dining Hall

  

  Almost two decades after it first opened its doors inside the Dorchester, the celebrity magnet China Tang has branched out. It's just opened a dim sum counter over at Harrods and if you're after some very beautiful dumplings, this looks like a place to try.

  If you haven't been to the original restaurant, that made a name for itself by serving up high end versions of classic Cantonese dishes and was the

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