Mayfair

So it looks as though London's Miracle on Russell Street festive bar is going to have quite the competitor this Christmas. Entering the fray (in a cloud of red and white sequins no doubt) is the undisputed queen of the season herself, Mariah Carey.

In previous years the diva has been behind a series of pop-ups across America to both cement her association with the festive season and publicise her own cream liqueur brand, Black Irish Cream into the

Having only opened just over a year ago in Manchester and earlier this year in Liverpool, Tabitha's coffee has been building a big following. Now they're getting ready for a three-day pop-up at the 1 Hotel Mayfair. 

Run by Georgia Davis and Lucy Shaw (and named after their cat), they're particularly known for their iced matchas and coffees. Options include the whipped vanilla mascarpone, caramelised sticky banana, coconut strawberry matcha, and more. They put on regular specials and off-menu drinks too. For Autumn, they've added new iced coffee options like a salted

Chophouses are back in vogue, it seems. We've just had the launch of Cloth Cornhill, which takes some of its influences from Simpson's Tavern, the classic chophouse that had been on its site before, and now we're about to get one in the centre of town. But this time it's a little different, as Elezar is being touted as an "Eastern European chophouse".

It's being opened by Misha Zelman, a name that's probably most recognisable as being behind Zelman Meats

Almost exactly a year ago, we brought you the news that a new sushi bar was getting ready to open at The Hilton on Park Lane. Well, it turned out that we were a bit ahead of things. But now, 99 Sushi really is getting ready to open on Park Lane.

99 Sushi originally started in Madrid and has since expanded to Marbella and Barcelona and as far afield as Abu Dhabi (where it has a Michelin star). They say they

18/9/26 - Updated with new images and revised opening date. 

Recently, there have been a lot of fancy new Mayfair hotels opening, from the Chancery Rosewood on Grosvenor Square to the upcoming St Regis Hotel, taking over what used to be The Westbury. Also planned for a while, but finally due to open is The Shepherd Mayfair, which is more of a boutique affair.

The hotel has taken over what used to be the Park Lane Mews Hotel, just

As regular readers know, 2026 has been the year of the pivot, with a number of restaurants changing focus, cuisine or even the whole proposal. Now another is about to join them with The Twenty Two. 

Previously, The Twenty Two was a luxe Mayfair

A new entry to London's competitive sandwich space is Mardy's which is bringing top quality sarnies to Mayfair. We popped along one lunchtime to give it a go.

Since restaurant group D&D turned into the Evolv Group, they've been making a lot of changes to some of their flagship places. We have the completely relocated Le Coq D'Argent to come next year, but before that, they're getting ready for big changes at what's arguably the group's most famous restaurant, Quaglino's. 

Quaglino's was first opened back in 1929 (meaning its 100th anniversary is almost upon us) and has been attracting royals and celebrities

Mayfair isn't short of places to empty your wallet on a spendy steak, so it'll be interesting to see what new restaurant Cordelia's Mayfair brings to the table. The steakhouse has taken over the old L'atelier Robuchon restaurant site on Clarges Street, where they say they're bringing the theatre of live fire cooking to W1.

Carnivores will be well served by a menu that focuses on British cuts, all of which will have been aged in-house. But should you wish to wander the globe for your steak supper, they'll also serve up Galician beef and Finnish Sashi as well as (and this is a new

Ex-Lita chef Charlie Dilworth has taken over the kitchen at Mayfair restaurant Silva making this Bruton Place gem well worth a visit.

Updated 17/7/26 with menu details

For over a year now, there have been rumblings that Mayfair hotel, The Beaumont, was gearing up to open a second restaurant. That would add to their existing offering, Rosi, by the hotel's Culinary Director Lisa Goodwin-Allen.

Now we can reveal that plans for Pearl are fully underway, with the restaurant taking over the elevated section of Brown Hart Gardens in front of the hotel. On the food front, it might not surprise you to learn that the menu here is going to be Mediterranean-led, like so many new openings in London right

Mayfair is firmly getting its mojo back and the arrival of cool new cocktail bar Brutes is a great example of that. 

After years of it seeming that the only places that could afford to open in Mayfair were huge, soulless international group restaurants, we're very pro the arrival of a new vanguard. Kickstarted by Martin Kuczmarski at The Dover, then followed by the likes of Lilibet's and, most recently, Brutes, this new Mayfair movement is much more about a stylish kind of hospitality.

Into the fray more recently has come Bar Finch, which opened slightly on the QT two months ago in the heart of Mayfair's art quarter, Cork Street, but has only just started telling people about itself. The man

A Wong is getting a big brush-up for a few weeks over summer, and that means the team are going to have to close the restaurant in Pimlico. But it doesn't mean Andrew Wong's two-Michelin-starred restaurant is shutting up shop completely - instead, they're moving it to Mayfair's Mandarin Oriental. 

A Wong is going to be taking over the private dining space next to the hotel's Atrium restaurant. That's a pretty sizable space (from our recollection), and they'll be serving the "Collection of China" menu there for six weeks. That features dishes like his Isle of Mull seared

We went back to Mayfair's hottest opening, this time to put the restaurant through its paces.