Mayfair

• The Caviar Bar to open in Mayfair’s new Medici Courtyard

  

  Updated with the opening date and soft launch

  If you’re looking to go somewhere particularly fancy, or if you have a penchant for fine caviar, do step this way. It’s our duty to inform you that Mayfair (where else?) is getting a rather luxurious seafood restaurant in the new Medici Courtyard development – built as part of London’s Crossrail project – near Hanover Square.

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• L'Atelier Robuchon

  Mayfair restaurant that carries on Joel Robuchon's legacy

• Trying a Mayfair breakfast upstairs at The Barley Mow

  

  Mayfair has a new pub breakfast offering we think you're going to want to know about. We took the stairs to The Barley Mow's first floor dining room to find out more. 

• Ex-Petrus head chef Larry Jayasekara to open The Cocochine in Mayfair

  

  12/3/24 - updated with new photos, details and an opening date.

  A long time coming (we first wrote about this back in 2022), Larry Jayasekara has finally confirmed details about his first solo restaurant that's opening in Bruton Place, to be called The Cocochine.

  Jayasekara was the former head chef of Gordon Ramsay's Petrus and his CV also includes such top-tier

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• The Guinea in Mayfair has just got a lot bigger

  

  While there's been a LOT of attention on the opening of The Devonshire, there have also been some changes at Oisin Rogers' old Mayfair haunt The Guinea. During Rogers' tenure, we'd heard about some very big plans there and now those plans have finally come to fruition. 

  The pub has managed to nab an extra building next door, so the pub has significantly increased its dining space. However,

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• Trying the Oscar-themed bar menu at 45 Park Lane

  

  Didn't get an invite to this year's Academy Awards? Well a Mayfair bar has a menu that allows you to try the exact food the stars will be enjoying post-Oscars.

• Test Driving Ormer - newly Michelin-starred finesse and fun in Mayfair

  

  The arrival of a Michelin star is the well-deserved cherry on top for this somewhat under-the-radar Mayfair restaurant.

• Mistress is a Parisian-inspired restaurant and late-night bar in Mayfair

  

  Updated 22/2/24 with menu details and photos

  The Mayfair restaurant scene - particularly the high-end side of things - sees no sign of slowing down with Mistress opening in the area. 

  It's a lower-ground affair in James Street, taking over the space that used to be Aura. Instead of the R&B club it was before, it's going to be

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• 20 Berkeley becomes Niju Japanese grill and sushi bar, with Endo Kazutoshi more involved

  

  After nine months, things are changing at 20 Berkeley Street. The restaurant there originally opened as 20 Berkeley, a British-influenced brasserie from the Creative Restaurant Group, which runs Endo Kazutoshi's restaurants, and got some pretty good reviews too. But it seems that wasn't enough and now it's about to get a relaunch, pivoting to

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• Test Driving the Farm Shop wine bar - a hidden oasis in Mayfair that's surprisingly good value

  

  Mayfair deli Farm Shop has an excellent, old-school wine bar hidden underneath it. We went down to try the food and wine out.  

• Mayfair's Chancery Rosewood is lining up Le Caprice and Carbone as its restaurants

  

  The new Chancery Rosewood hotel in Mayfair is a pretty huge endeavour, taking over the space of the old US Embassy (and retaining the Brutalist look). We've been wondering what they're going to do for restaurants, given that they have to compete with a fair few high-end hotels opening of late, and it seems they're going big. 

  Mere days after it was revealed ...

• BAO are popping up at Dover Street Market with merch and baked goods

  

  BAO has arrived in Mayfair - but not as you might expect. They've landed at Dover Street Market for a pop-up kiosk that's as much about their merch as it is about the food.

  On the merch side, they've created limited edition Year of the Dragon t-shirts, made by Carhartt WIP, and you'll also be able to pick up sweatshirts, umbrellas, caps and even a custom zippo

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• The Rex Delicatessen by Larry Jayasekara and Tim Jefferies opens in Mayfair

  

  We've known for a while that  Larry Jayasekara is opening The Cocochine with gallery owner Tim Jefferies in Mayfair. That restaurant should see the light of day this spring, but it's not the only project they've been working on. On the

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• Test Driving The Dover - a glamorous NYC-style Italian restaurant in Mayfair

  

  Arriving somewhat quietly in Mayfair, The Dover is a slice of old-school New York Italian in Mayfair from a seasoned London hospitality professional. We went down to try it out. 

• A British restaurant is opening at the new Tanner Krolle shop in Mayfair

  

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  Quite a few London high-end shops have gone down the in-store drinking or dining route. There's the very popular Café Leon Dore, Dunhill has its bar and courtyard cafe at Bourdon House, and

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