New chefs on the block Joe Allen and Aaron Thomas have teamed up with restaurateur Jamie Barber to launch a Nepalese-inspired dining residency at Hush in Mayfair. Allen and Thomas appeared on 2019’s series of the Beeb’s My Million Pound Menu, but failed to secure funding for their concept, which was then called XXVI, but […]
Chef, restaurateur and industry investor Atul Kochhar is to launch a new high-end Indian concept in Mayfair. Kanishka will open on Maddox Street in March and is Kochhar’s first venture with Tina English, a prominent investor on the London dining scene. Kanishka will look to explore the lesser-known regions of Indian cookery, focusing on the […]
Chef Daniel Humm is opening his first London restaurant. And yes, he’s doing so at Claridge’s. The rumours, which we reported at the beginning of the month, are, to no-one’s great surprise, true after all. Humm, together with restaurateur Will Guidara, will launch Davies and Brook in summer 2019. The Mayfair haunt will replace Fera, which […]
Chef and restaurateur Jason Atherton has revealed plans for a new 16 cover restaurant in Mayfair. H.O.M.E, which is a working title, will sit next to Atherton’s flagship restaurant Pollen Street Social. The site is currently being rented out by Atherton’s company to pop up ventures, but will soon be revamped and turned into […]
Rohit Ghai, who has just opened the fine-dining Indian restaurant Kutir in Chelsea, will next turn his hand to a street food concept at Boxpark Wembley. Whereas once upon a time a chef with ‘fine dining’ aspirations would not have been seen dead in the mass market, it’s yet another example of the chef […]
Michelin-starred Bonhams is to close on December 19: the victim of a change of direction by the famous auction house’s new private equity owners. Head chef Theo Clench confirmed the Mayfair spot, housed at the rear of the famous London sales room, would no longer be a fixture in an Instagram post this week. Bonhams […]
Head chef and oyakata (sushi master) of The Araki – the highest-rated restaurant in the Harden’s 100, and London’s only three Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant – is to leave in March 2019. Mitsuhiro Araki has been in London since 2014, having moved to Britain from Tokyo, where he had a Michelin three-star restaurant previously. Harden’s was the […]
Tamarind Mayfair will reopen this November after an eight-month rebuild and rethink. Since 2001, the Indian restaurant has been impressing diners with its “subtle and fully flavoured” modern cuisine. The new opening will see two newly appointed executive chefs take charge – Karunesh Khanna, formerly head chef of Amaya in Belgravia, and Manav Tuli, past head […]
Harden’s invites you to an exclusive celebration of British Isles cuisine with Richard Corrigan to mark his 10th Year at Corrigans Restaurant Tickets are now on sale for this exclusive one-off event at Corrigan’s in Mayfair to celebrate their 10th Anniversary. On Monday 19 November, Richard Corrigan is marking his flagship Mayfair restaurant’s 10th anniversary […]
Mayfair’s Met Bar – a venue where, back in the day, A-listers clambered over one another to push past the velvet rope – is to relaunch as a grill restaurant. The bar first opened in 1997 and Madonna, Patsy Kensit, Liam Gallagher, The Spice Girls, Cher, and Kate Moss were all regulars. Detail on the […]