Anyone who thought Alan Yau’s recent cashing in of some of his chips at Hakkasan W1 and Yauatcha W1 meant he was losing interesting in restaurants had better think again.

In a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg, published today, Yau outlines plans not just to make Hakkasan an international brand – with openings already planned in Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, Miami and Shanghai – but also to establish a worldwide fast food concept. The precise concept, not yet disclosed, may or may not be based on Cha Cha Moon, whose first branch opens in Soho next month.

Yau is certainly not neglecting London either. It‘s now confirmed that not only is he on the point of signing a site for a second Yauatcha, but also that he is to open Hakka Berkeley, a Hakkasan spin-off, on the former Café Grand Prix site opposite Nobu Berkeley W1.

And – just to keep his hand in, presumably – he’s also to open Princi in Wardour Street in June. This is a joint venture with Rocco Princi, a fashionable Milanese baker, whom the locals have christened – inevitably? – the ‘Armani del Pane’.

He may have an almost invisible personal profile, but Yau is fast becoming London’s true über-restaurateur.