Mayfair

• Test Driving Automat, the speakeasy restaurant hidden at the back of a Mayfair shop

  

  London's run of stealth openings continues with Automat. The American brasserie returns with a new team and a hidden-away location in Mayfair.

• Claridge's Bakery sees world class baker Richard Hart doing British bakes in London

  

  9/12/25 - updated with more details and an opening date

  London bakery nerd alert - one of the world's best bakers is coming to town. Richard Hart hails from London but made his name far from home, having headed up the famous Tartine in San Francisco for seven years before co-founding Copenhagen bakery Hart Bagery with none other than René Redzepi of Noma. Now he's signed up to be the executive

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• Paris's Loulou Groupe heads to London with a brasserie and club planned for Mayfair

  

  Updated 8/12/25 with more details

  In France they're responsible for a roster of hotter-than-hot restaurants, and back in 2021 we were the first to let you know that the Loulou Groupe were heading to London for their first UK opening. Now, four years later, we have more details on what's being planned.

  The team have taken over a Grade II listed building in the

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• Test Driving Bonheur by Matt Abé, where the Gordon Ramsay alum goes solo in Le Gavroche's former home

  

  Matt Abé graduated from Restaurant Gordon Ramsay to his own place, opening on the hallowed ground that used to be Le Gavroche. We went to Mayfair to see what he's done with the place.  

• The Dover expands with its late night party sibling Dover Street Counter

  

  Restaurateur Martin Kuczmarski is a busy man. Just days after opening Martino's, his follow-up restaurant to The Dover, in Chelsea he's at it again. Now he's gearing up to open another space on Dover Street, just a few doors down from his OG restaurant.

  Dover Street Counter sounds like it'll be much more of a playful, casual spot. They're pitching it as "a place to drop in - and likely stay longer than planned."

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• Test Driving Crisp Pizza at The Marlborough, next level hype manages to live up to expectations

  

  Crisp Pizza's arrival in Mayfair at The Marlborough is peak London food scene hype. We went down to see if those pizzas live up to the sky-high expectations.

• Automat has somewhat stealthily returned to Mayfair

  

  Every now and then, a new opening manages to happen under our radar, but this latest one really is a proper surprise. It turns out that Automat has quietly returned to Mayfair, opening just around the corner from Berkeley Square. 

  The original Automat was over on Dover Street, a location that's been turned very successfully into The Dover. That Automat was modelled on a traditional

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• Crisp Pizza open The Marlborough pub in Mayfair with a little help from The Devonshire - here's a first look

  

  9/11/25 - Updated with photos and menu details

  One of London's big openings for the autumn is the arrival of Crisp Pizza in Mayfair, where they've taken over The Marlborough Head pub on North Audley Street, renaming it The Marlborough. 

  For the Mayfair opening, Crisp's and now The Marlborough's owner Carl McCluskey is getting support from the whole team behind The Devonshire:

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• Mazarine in Mayfair sees an ex-LPM chef taking coastal French cooking to Hanover Square

  

  French restaurants have been a booming business on London's dining scene in 2025, and the latest to join that trend is Mazarine. 

  This comes from the team behind Sparrow Italia and is run by ex-LPM chef Thierry Laborde (who was previously head chef of Le Gavroche). It's taking a southern/coastal approach to French cooking, so expect things here to have

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• The best restaurants in Mayfair

  

  In the heart of Mayfair, you'll find more than a smattering of Michelin-starred restaurants. But it's not all about the 10-course tasting menus. Here's our pick of the very best restaurants in Mayfair.

• It's all change for José Pizarro at the RA as he moves to The Keeper's House

  

  Recently, we launched our guide to London's best restaurants in galleries and museums. Well, it turns out that one of those restaurants is about to get a large overhaul. The Royal Academy is undergoing a big expansion project, called the "RA Collection Gallery Project" and that

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• 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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