Mayfair

• Sushi Kanesaka brings omakase to 45 Park Lane

  

  We're still a little surprised when it happens but occasionally the odd restaurant does manage to launch in a fairly stealthy fashion. The latest of those is Sushi Kanesaka which is opening at 45 Park Lane, the hotel right opposite The Dorchester. 

  It comes from top sushi chef Shinji Kanesaka who also has a two-Michelin-starred restaurant by the same name in Tokyo. The London

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• Yannick Alléno is opening Pavyllon London at the Four Seasons on Park Lane

  

  Updated 2/6/23 with the opening date

  After a while, all roads lead to London. Chefs across the globe may open their multi-Michelin-starred restaurants wherever they choose, but it does appear that to be considered a truly global culinary star, they need to have a London outpost to cement their reputation. In recent years we've had Scandinavian giants Niklas Ekstedt and Björn

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• Test Driving 20 Berkeley - high-end British food in a Mayfair townhouse

   

  20 Berkeley sees the team behind Sumi and Humo try their hand at "sophisticated British dining" in Mayfair. We went down to their townhouse to check it out. 

• It's all change for The Dorchester with The Grill by Tom Booton opening

  

  For the past 92 years, the Grill at The Dorchester on Park Lane has been known as just that, The Grill. But now they're ringing in several changes by switching that up to The Grill By Tom Booton, naming it after the restaurant's Executive Chef for the first time.

  Booton, who joined the restaurant back in 2019 (he was previously at Alyn Williams), has been hard at work on a brand new

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• 20 Berkeley is coming to Mayfair

  

  2/5/23 - updated with the opening date and details of the menu

  The group behind Sumi and the recently opened Humo have a new restaurant on the horizon - 20 Berkeley. 

  It's taking over a space on the corner of Berkeley Street and being billed as offering "a sophisticated dining

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• Grill 88 serves up luxury surf and turf over at The Biltmore Mayfair

  

  It's been almost a year since chef Jason Atherton announced he was parting ways with The Biltmore Mayfair hotel on Grosvenor Square. Since then the hotel has been running the Cafe Biltmore that he opened there. But now they've got a brand new restaurant to shout about.

  Grill 88 is all about surf and turf - so that'll be Lake District Sirloin Steaks alongside Japanese Wagyu ribeyes, Australian full-blood

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• Amethyst in Mayfair is opening Vinum wine bar underneath its restaurant

  

  Back when we first visited Carlo Scotto's restaurant Amethyst, we spotted that there was quite a lovely downstairs bar space. But the exacting chef wanted to get his restaurant operating perfectly before he moved on to working out what to do with that bar.

  Now he's about to open

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• Test Driving Noble Rot Mayfair - cheerful loucheness done to perfection

  

  The latest addition to the bijoux Noble Rot empire is nestling on the corner of Shepherd Market. It turns out to be the perfect place for great food and fine wines. 

• Noble Rot pick Mayfair's Shepherd Market for their next restaurant

  

  If you haven't been into Mayfair's Shepherd Market for a while, they're about to get a new opening there that's going to bring the area into focus for foodies.

  Noble Rot owners Dan and Mark have announced that they would be opening their third London restaurant there. They've taken over the old Le Boudin Blanc space.

  "This, our third place, is certainly not

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• Cake & Flowers will be the new patisserie and flower shop at The Dorchester

  

  Updated 22/3/23 with opening date and images

  Are you truly a five star hotel in London if you don't have your own in-house patisserie or plans for one? We've had Nicolas Rouzaud's The Connaught Patisserie at The Connaught, Cedric Grolet at The Berkeley and now The Dorchester is getting in on the act.

  It's all part of a major refurbishment that the hotel's undertaking. They've

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• Wolfgang Puck's Spago is popping up in London

  

  If there's one restaurant that seems synonymous with Hollywood (to us in the UK at least) it's Wolfgang Puck's Spago (the chef also caters the main Oscars afterparty). If you've ever fancied eating like the LA elite, now you don't even have to cross the Atlantic as Puck is bringing Spago to the UK for four days only. 

  Taking over his UK restaurant, Cut at 45 Park Lane will be a special Spago pop-up,

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• Celeb hotspot Sheesh is coming to Mayfair

  

  They're big in Chigwell and pretty soon they're going to be just as big in London as Sheesh has taken on a pretty prime piece of real estate on the corner of One Dover Street and Piccadilly, right opposite The Wolseley.

• Test Driving Socca - a love letter to the French Riviera in Mayfair

  

  Bosi's new Mayfair bistro aims to transport Londoners to the south of France. We left our passports at home and went to try it out.

• Test Driving Humo - culinary fireworks in Mayfair

  

  From the restaurant group that brought us Endo and Sumi comes this thrilling new cooking over fire restaurant. We pulled up a seat at the counter.

• Claude Bosi to open Socca in Mayfair, teaming up with Jamavar restaurateur

  

  26/1/22 - updated with the opening date

  He may be edging closer to that third Michelin star at his eponymous restaurant in South Kensington, but Claude Bosi is also about to try something new in Mayfair. He's teamed up with Samyukta Nair, the restaurateur behind Jamavar, for new bistro Socca. 

  The restaurant will have a French/Mediterranean-influenced menu, with a

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