Mayfair

  • Mayfair gets a new wine bar, at Farm Shop

    farm shop wine bar mayfair

    Ever since it opened in the weeks before Christmas, we've been waiting to hear when bouji new deli, Farm Shop Mayfair, was going to open its wine bar.

    The good news for Mayfair-based oenophiles (who aren't doing Dry January) is that the day has arrived. The wine bar can be found underneath the shop

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  • The best restaurants in Mayfair

    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.

  • Sabor gets a refresh, adding new group table La Mesa

    Sabor gets a refresh, adding new group table La Mesa

    Nieves Barragan and José Etura's Sabor is coming back from the Christmas holidays looking a little different than before. Previously a bar space, right inside the front door you'll notice something quite different - a new table for 10 people. This is La Mesa. 

    Its main use will be a group table that you can book on the ground floor, where you can order both dishes from the main counter as

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  • Farm Shop is Artfarm's swanky new deli in Mayfair

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    Updated 5/12/23 with opening date

    Having had huge success with the opening of The Audley and Mount St. Restaurant, the team behind Artfarm are gearing up to open Farm Shop further along the same street in Mayfair. Described as a farm shop, butcher and wine cellar, the London shop will be a follow-up to their existing store at their farm in Bruton in Somerset.

    The shop in Mayfair will run

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  • New York Italian The Dover comes to Mayfair

    New York Italian The Dover comes to Mayfair

    A new restaurant has quietly opened in Mayfair, sneaking in before the end of the year. The Dover has taken over the space that was Moncks of Mayfair, which itself closed at the onset of the pandemic back in 2020 (after less than a year in business). 

    As for this

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  • Chef Akira Back will run the restaurants and bars at the new Mandarin Oriental Mayfair

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    Updated 27/11/23 with more details

    We've known for a while that Michelin-starred chef Akira Back was heading to London to open at the upcoming Mandarin Oriental Mayfair. Now the final details are emerging about what we can expect from the chef's restaurants and bars at the hotel.

    Back is going to be responsible for two restaurants, a bar and a rooftop 'experience' at the hotel when it opens

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  • Gymkhana is opening a brand new cocktail bar called 42

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    It's loved by celebrities as well as being one of the most critically rated Indian restaurants in London. Now Michelin-starred Gymkhana is getting ready to open a new cocktail bar, 42.

    The name alludes to Gymkhana's address on Albemarle Street but the entrance to the bar will actually be through the door neighbouring the restaurant. It's going to be a late-night haunt, with last orders at 2am every evening.

    And that,

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  • Test Driving Il Gattopardo - a Mayfair Italian that delivers on food and vibes

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    Does Mayfair need another glitzy Italian restaurant. Il Gattopardo would suggest it does, particularly one where both the food and vibes are given equal weight.

  • Tokyo's Kobe beef specialists Aragawa are heading to London

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    Updated 17/10/23 with opening date

    London's carnivores with big pockets have a new treat coming their way this summer. One of Tokyo's most prestigious restaurants is opening its first restaurant outside Japan, in Mayfair.

    They're taking over the old Miyama site on Clarges Street bringing their legendary - and pricey - steaks to the West End.

    Billed as one of the world's most expensive

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

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    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.

    Called The Caviar Bar, it’s obviously the place for fish-egg delicacies, but will

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  • Dine like the King and Queen as Versailles banquet comes to London

    versailles royal banquet comes to London

    Whether you're a royalist or a fervent republican, you can't fail to have been impressed by the glamour of the dinner President Macron threw for the King and Queen at Versailles the other week. Now, for one night only, Londoners are being given a chance to try the food served up to the royals at the state banquet in Paris.

    Two of the chefs responsible for dishes at the dinner, Anne-Sophie Pic and Yannick

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  • Test of time - we return to Angela Hartnett's Murano to check out its new look, menu and head chef

    murano mayfair london restaurant review

    To celebrate its 15th birthday Angela Hartnett's Murano has had a makeover and brought in a new head chef. We went to check it out.

  • Maison Francois

    French brasserie in Mayfair

  • Test Driving Brunswick House - a restaurant where the food and vibe are pitch perfect

    Brunswick House restaurant review London

    Jackson Boxer's Vauxhall restaurant not only looks like a beautiful film set, but the food is Oscar-worthy too. 

  • Il Gattopardo is a new high-end Italian for Mayfair by the group behind Zuma and Amazonico

    Il Gattopardo is a new high-end Italian for Mayfair by the group behind Zuma and Roka

    Updated 25/9/23 with opening date and menu details

    A new high-end Italian restaurant is heading to Mayfair. This time, it's the turn of Il Gattopardo, a restaurant that they say is inspired by 1960s Italy. 

    It's got something of a pedigree, however, coming from the same restaurant group that brought us Bar De Pres, Zuma, Roka and

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