Long-running Italian restaurant Sale e Pepe is launching its second venue next week – a seafood specialist at The Langham hotel in Portland Place, just off Oxford Circus.
Sale e Pepe Mare has taken over the hotel’s main restaurant space, which operated as Roux at the Landau until 2023; that was followed by a French restaurant called Mimosa which closed down after barely five months. The original Sale e Pepe opened in 1974 in Knightsbridge, and has enjoyed a new lease of life as part of the Thesleff Group since 2023.
Markus Thesleff, the group’s Danish-born founder, was taken to Sale e Pepe as a boy by his parents. He says: “With Sale e Pepe Mare, we’re honouring that legacy while reimagining it for today.“
Sale e Pepe Mare is pitched as ‘an ode to the art of Mediterranean living’, taking inspiration from the Italian Riviera to the north and the Amalfi coast further south, with a list of ‘exceptional wines from elite vineyards’ across the country.
In a big week for trolley service in London (see our story on Simpson’s-in-the-Strand), there will also be two trolleys at Sale e Pepe Mare – one bearing a Negroni and Champagne selection, the other desserts including a house tiramisu served tableside.
The Thesleff Group – best known for Mexican/Japanese concept Los Mochis and the more purely Japanese Juno and Luna – is also launching a new Japanese-inspired restaurant called MA/NA in Upper Grosvenor Street, Mayfair, this spring.
