Mayfair

• Jason Atherton is opening The Betterment at The Biltmore hotel in Mayfair

  We hear that Jason Atherton has been lined up to run all the food side of things at this new London hotel - right opposite his old boss Gordon Ramsay's new restaurant

• Scott's new private dining room has paintings by Renoir and Chagall on the walls

  

  From this month, there's a new way to showcase your wealth and influence in London. Scott's Restaurant in Mayfair is throwing open the doors to a private dining room designed to put most of the others into the shade. The Platinum Arowana Room has had £6m lavished on its interiors. So if you (and up to seven of your best mates) would like to dine surrounded by paintings by Renoir, Miró, Chagall, Pissarro and more, then this is where to

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• Gymkhana restaurant closed by a massive fire

  

  One of London's top Indian restaurants, Gymkhana in Mayfair, was the centre of attention yesterday for all the wrong reasons when a huge fire broke out mid afternoon. It took firefighters more than two hours to get the blaze under control, which appears to have been caused by a ventilation fire in the restaurant's kitchen.

  Gymkhana Indian Resturant on fire in

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• Inside Prada's glossy new London bakery Marchesi 1824 in Mayfair

  

  It's been a go-to patisserie in Milan since the 19th century - it joined the Prada group in 2014 - and now Marchesi 1824 has opened its doors in London, on Mount Street to be exact. The new pastry shop will be open all day, serving Mayfair folk with top quality coffee and fine pastries, opening into the early evening for cocktails. Hot Dinners popped along for a look on the opening day - here's what we found:

• Test Driving the Guinea Grill's breakfast menu - all you could ever want from a cooked breakfast

  The Guinea Grill already has a great reputation for steaks and more grilled meats. But how does that translate to breakfast? We went along to find out. 

• Kwant is a hot new cocktail bar by Erik Lorincz underneath Momo

  

  After a huge revamp earlier this year, followed by a rave review by Fay Maschler, there's a lot going on at Momo at the moment. And now they've gone one step further, opening a separate cocktail bar downstairs,

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• Les Platanes on Bruton Place will be chef Thierry Laborde's French Bistrot de Luxe

  French chef Thierry Laborde is back in London and this time he's bringing a taste of southern France to cobbled Bruton Place.

• Mayfair's Guinea Grill serves up a meat-laden breakfast for the first time

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  We only recently revisited the Guinea Grill ourselves to remind us why this Young's pub is one of London's best steak restaurants (not to mention top Mayfair pub). And now it looks like there will be another reason to head there - it's launching a breakfast that it describes as "unlike any

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• Test Driving Emilia - a restaurant and wine bar to shake things up in Mayfair

  

  The team behind Quality Chop House, Clipstone and Portland turn to Mayfair and Italy for their fourth restaurant, taking over the space at Bonhams.

• El Pirata in Mayfair celebrates 25 years in London with a 25 year old menu

  

  Here at Hot Dinners, we do write a lot about brand new restaurants opening in London - but it's just as important to celebrate the stalwarts of the scene. And El Pirata in Mayfair, which is about to reach its 25th year in business, is definitely one of those. They're even saying they'll have served 6 million tapas dishes by the time of the anniversary. 

  And the Spanish tapas

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• The Guinea Grill revisited - a steak haven in Mayfair

  The Guinea Grill has been serving up excellent steaks since the 1950s and their reputation is only getting greater. We pop down to put those steaks to the test. 

• Jason Atherton is Relaunching Little Social as No.5 Social

  Jason Atherton is closing his Little Social restaurant and launching a new concept in its place. Whereas Little Social was focused on French bistro food, No.5 Social will be all about seasonal British produce and will be led by Executive Chef Kostas Papathanasiou

• Emilia in Bonhams is the next restaurant from the Quality Chop House people

  Emilia sees the Quality Chop House team take over the restaurant at Bonhams Auction House. It's inspired by the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna.

• Lucknow 49 on Maddox Street will be the new restaurant from the Dum Biryani team

  Inspired by the Lucknow region's Awadhi cooking, chef and restaurateur Dhruv Mittal is opening a restaurant with all manner of biryanis, kebabs and lunchtime quick bites.

• Test Driving Bellamy's in Mayfair - a classic that feels like it's been looking after Londoners forever

  

  This classic Mayfair restaurant is pure establishment but it's also supremely welcoming to newcomers.