Mayfair

• MA/NA sees the Los Mochis team head to Mayfair with a Japanese restaurant

  

  28/10/25 - updated with more details

  Mayfair residents wondering what's happening over at the old Ruya site on Upper Grosvenor Street, next to Corrigan's, should know that they'll have a new restaurant on their doorstep in the new year. It was bought by the Thesleff Group, which is behind Los Mochis in Notting Hill, Sale e Pepe in Knightsbridge and the Juno and Luna omakase

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• New Mayfair opening Chargal is going to be a three storey Turkish restaurant and late night lounge

  

  Set firmly in the Mayfair triangle, new Turkish opening Chargal is hoping to woo Londoners in with three storeys of mezze, refined Turkish dining and a late-night club in the basement. It's taken over the spot vacated by Jeru on Berkeley Street and comes from restaurateur Serdar Demir, who's also behind The Mantl in Knightsbridge.

  Here at Chargal, he's hoping that whether you're after a more casual

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• Test Driving Carbone, the American import that quickly became London's hottest restaurant

  

  Carbone has landed in London with a bang, immediately becoming the hottest restaurant in town. But what's it actually like to dine there? We went in to find out. 

• Supernova are bringing their burgers to Mayfair

  

  23/10/25 - updated with the opening date

  When they opened in Soho last year, Supernova were an instant hit. It certainly helped that they carefully cultivated scarcity by only opening at certain days and times to start with. That meant that queues built up quickly and soon one of their burgers became the thing to try.

  It was also right at the forefront of the smash

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• West Coast USA cook and influencer Jesse Jenkins is the next residency at The Donovan Bar.

  

  The Donovan Bar in Brown's Hotel has been host to some pretty interesting residencies in the past few months, including Andrew Wong, Mitch Tonks and Tom Kitchin. But for their next, they're going a little further, bringing over West Coast USA photographer, author and cook Jesse Jenkins. He's probably best known over here for

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• Trèsind, a modern indian restaurant with a three-Michelin-starred offshoot, is coming to London

  

  A modern Indian restaurant that started life in Dubai (before opening in Mumbai too) is coming to London. 

  Trèsind describes itself as a "modernist Indian dining experience" so it's a high-end affair. The Dubai menu features dishes like scarlet prawns crudo, with Kashmiri chilli xo, prawn papad, and beluga caviar alongside a menu of premium

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• Carbone sister restaurant The Grill is coming to London as Major's Grill

  

  As you may know, what was once London's In and Out Club on Piccadilly, Cambridge House, is getting a huge makeover at the moment and is due to launch as a new hotel sometime in 2026. If you're not quite familiar with that space, it's on Piccadilly with its gated driveway leading to the front door making it one of the most impressive-looking properties on the street. 

  The original

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• Test Driving Rosi, a modern British hit for The Beaumont in Mayfair

  

  The arrival of Michelin-starred chef Lisa Goodwin-Allen has given this Mayfair hotel dining room a shake up. We went to get a taste of her Modern British cooking.

• Tobi Masa sees NYC's Chef Masa bringing top sushi to The Chancery Rosewood

  

  9/10/25 - updated with the opening date

  He's already been a huge hit in the Harrods Dining Hall, now chef Masa Takayama is heading into the centre of town to open a second London restaurant, this time in the upcoming The Chancery Rosewood hotel in Mayfair. Tobi Masa will be joining fellow NYC restaurant Carbone in the Rosewood opening on Grosvenor Square. It'll feature an omakase counter, a

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• The Polo Bar Ralph Lauren is opening in London, in the old Vogue magazine offices

  

  Fashionistas, we have one for your future diaries…Ralph Lauren is opening a London restaurant. Fittingly, it’ll be at the old Vogue House on 1 Hanover Square and called The Polo Bar Ralph Lauren. This is not the first time Ralph Lauren has made a foray into London’s hospitality world. Back in 2017 we reported

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• Sportswear brand Gant turns Mayfair's Mister Nice into an American clubhouse for a month

  

  Anyone walking past Mayfair restaurant Mister Nice over the past couple of days will be forgiven for doing a bit of a double-take. The restaurant has been completely taken over by American-founded sportswear company Gant and turned into The Gant House for a month-long residency. From the name on the blinds outside to the menu, everything has had a preppy makeover to tie in with the brand's Fall/Winter 2025

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• Willem Dafoe gets a Mayfair pub named after him

  

  As autumn arrives, the drinks brands' marketing budget shoots up in preparation for Christmas, and that usually means we get some mad pop-ups and events in the last few months of the year. This latest venture certainly fits into that mould.

  The Barley Mow in Mayfair has teamed up with Laphroaig Whisky and none other than Willem Dafoe for their current stunt. It's to tie in with ...

• Bonheur by Matt Abé is the restaurant replacing Le Gavroche

  

  23/9/25 - updated with an opening date and more details

  We've known for a while that Restaurant Gordon Ramsay chef Matt Abé was taking on the old Le Gavroche site (snapped up by Gordon himself), and now we have a name: Bonheur by Matt Abé. The chef was a

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• The London Hilton on Park Lane adds a sushi bar to its line-up with 99 Sushi

  

  The Hilton on Park Lane has been going through a lot of changes of late on the dining side of things. On the lower ground floor, there's the new Mr Porter steakhouse, while on the opposite end of the building, up on the top floor, ...

• Test Driving Lilibet's, hospitality fit for a Queen at this new Mayfair seafood restaurant

  

  Mayfair's key seafood spots have a new rival in Lilibet's, a glamorous arrival from an experienced restaurateur that sets great store by its old school approach to hospitality.