Mayfair

• Mayfair restaurant Mnky Hse set ablaze in Christmas decorations fire

  

  Festive celebrations took a bad turn at Mayfair restaurant Mnky Hse on Friday night when a fire broke out forcing hundreds of customers and restaurant workers to flee the premises.

  In dramatic footage put up on social media you can see the restaurant's Christmas decorations fully ablaze as people dash to escape.

  Mnky Hse London on

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• MasterChef The Professionals winner Alex Webb turns his Park Lane pop up permanent

  

  He won MasterChef the Professionals in 2020 and has been popping up in one form or another at Number One Park Lane for the past eight months, taking over first the terrace and then popping up with a restaurant inside the hotel. Now Alex Webb (whose CV includes Hélène Darroze, Dinner and Roux at Parliament Square) is making his Mayfair pop up permanent.

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• Test Driving Saltie Girl - the Boston seafood import hits Mayfair

  

  All the way from Boston, this US import is hoping to make itself an indispensable seafood spot for anyone shopping on Oxford Street. 

• Mister Nice restaurant to open in Mayfair

  

  23/11/22 - updated with lots more info

  News previously reached us of a new restaurant coming to Mayfair that seems to be going after the Cipriani and LPM crowd, called Mister Nice. Things were a little quiet after the first announcement - but now the restaurant is gearing up for an opening. 

  It'll be taking over the space left by Kallos Gallery on Davies Street and comes from French

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• The Maison Francois Croute-off is back, with some big names taking part

  

  We're very big fans of pate en croute here at Hot Dinners, so news of the return of Maison Francois' Croute Off has cheered us immensely. Just as you'd expect, it has some of London's best restaurants getting together to compete for the best pate en croute of 2022. 

  There's a pretty impressive list of names involved too, many already producing some pretty fine croutes at their own restaurants They

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• Bacchanalia will be Richard Caring's new Mayfair restaurant on Mount Street

  

  Updated 31/10/22 with the opening date

  More details are being revealed about Richard Caring's next big Mayfair project, Bacchanalia. 

  The Greek and Italian restaurant certainly sounds like it'll be as eye-popping as Caring's other more recent openings, like Sexy Fish and The Ivy Asia. Artist Damien Hirst, who's worked with Caring on Sexy Fish and The Brasserie of Light, is

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• Test Driving Mount St. Restaurant - art, food and celebs mix in this Mayfair hit

  

  Mount St. Restaurant has arrived in Mayfair, attracting a flurry of high-profile guests. We went along to take a look at this restaurant which also happens to double as an informal art gallery. 

• Test Driving Koyn - fire in the kitchen at this Mayfair Japanese restaurant

  

  From the team who brought us Jamavar and Mimi Mei Fair comes this hot new Japanese spot that's already causing a stir. We went down to try this restaurant of two halves.

• Saltie Girl are bringing their Boston lobster rolls and tinned fish to Mayfair

  

  21/10/22 - opening date added

  Here at Hot Dinners, we're always up for a good lobster roll and it sounds as though Mayfair should have a new place serving up just that before the end of the year.

  Saltie Girl is a popular Boston restaurant that's taking over what used to be Prezzo on North Audley Street, next to The Mayfair Chippy.

  For their London opening they've brought in

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• US restaurant Sparrow Italia launches in Mayfair

  

  19/9/22 - updated with images and menus

  If Mayfair wasn’t already buzzing with forthcoming new restaurant openings, here is news of another. This time it’s by way of Los Angeles as well as the southern European coast. Allow us to explain.

  Hospitality group Noble 33 first launched fine-dining Italian restaurant Sparrow Italia in downtown Los Angeles late last year and now they’re

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• Mayfair is about to get its first Armenian restaurant, with the arrival of Lusin

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  If you’ve not travelled to Armenia lately (quite frankly, that’s probably a lot of us) then your palate will soon be able to take a trip there, thanks to Lusin restaurant, which is opening in the heart of Mayfair. Spanning two floors and seating 100 diners, it’s the first London outpost of Lusin, which initially launched in Riyadh in 2011 where it has hosted notable dignitaries,

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• Test Driving The Barley Mow - a Mayfair pub reborn

  

  The latest addition to Mayfair's pub dining scene has arrived with a very clubby dining room and plenty of theatrical flourishes.

• The Audley and Mount St Restaurant see Artfarm opening in Mayfair

  

  Artfarm, the hospitality arm of the modern art gallery group Hauser & Wirth, have already opened the 5-star boutique hotel The Fife Arms in Braemar and Somerset’s Roth Bar & Grill.Now

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• Mayfair scores a new Ben Tish pub and restaurant: The Barley Mow

  

  There’s an impressive new dining destination about to hit Mayfair. The Barley Mow is a pub and restaurant set in a Grade-II-listed building on the corner of Brown Hart Gardens and Duke Street. The building was snapped up by pub group Cubitt House a while back, after closing down during the pandemic. Now you can admire the refurbished surroundings and sink an ale with the likes of haggis Scotch eggs or battered pollock,

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• Casa do Frango bring piri piri to Mayfair

  

  23/9/22 - updated with the opening date

  Next up for popular Portuguese piri-piri restaurant Casa do Frango - they're coming to Mayfair. 

  Taking over what used to be Ice Bar on Heddon Street, the restaurant will be their biggest yet (fitting in 200 people). As well as the main dining room, they'll have a terrace and two private rooms. 

  As for the food, that'll focus

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