The vaunted Chancery Rosewood hotel in the former US Embassy in Mayfair is now on a soft opening ahead of its formal launch on September 1st – without the promised revival of Richard Caring’s flagship restaurant Le Caprice. Following a seven-year conversion that reputedly cost £1 billion, the 144-suite hotel has unveiled its initial eating […]
American-based Korean celeb chef Akira Back is no longer headlining the restaurants at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Mayfair, which he joined amid much fanfare at the hotel’s launch in June last year. The hotel’s two restaurants, Akira Back and Dosa, and two bars, ABar Lounge and ABar Rooftop, were quietly rebranded this week without his […]
International Korean chef Akira Back makes his London debut at the new Mandarin Oriental hotel in Hanover Square, Mayfair, next Wednesday, 3 June – more than two years after it it was announced. He will operate two restaurants – Akira Back (pictured), reinterpreting Korean and Japanese dishes, and Dosa, a 14-seat chef’s table offering contemporary Korean […]
Richard Caring is reportedly looking to cash in his stake in the 50-strong Ivy group of restaurants for a fee in the region of a billion pounds – while also planning to revive the iconic Le Caprice brand. According to the Sunday Times, HSBC began circulating marketing documents in the City last week to sound out […]
French über-chef Yannick Alléno is the latest international kitchen celeb to try his hand in London, with the trailed opening next year of a new restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel on Park Lane. Alléno made his name at Le Meurice in Paris and followed up with Le 1947 at the ski resort of Couchevel. […]
Mexican celebrity chef Martha Ortiz is to open a restaurant at the InterContinental Hotel in Park Lane next spring. Dulce Patria, her Mexico City venture, is regarded as one of the most exciting restaurants in Latin America, combining research into historical Mexican gastronomy with creative modern twists. The Mayfair venue will be her first beyond Dulce […]
Luxury boutique hotel Flemings Mayfair is offering cut-price overnight packages from January until spring 2016 as it goes ‘under the knife’ for the second stage of its £14 million refurbishment project. This summer the 150-year-old hotel will unveil a new look, as well as an 80-cover restaurant by chef Shaun Rankin of Jersey’s famed (although these […]
