Marylebone
- Lavo Ristorante heads to London from LA with its giant wagyu meatballs
Is there room for another glitzy Italian restaurant in London? We ask because news reaches us of an American import, LAVO Ristorante, which is coming our way from America. It's part of the TAO Restaurant group which now also owns Hakkasan and Yauatcha, and this will be the group's first LAVO in Europe - they have several dotted across the states and one in Singapore.
The London restaurant will be part of the new
... - Brazilian restaurant Bossa coming to London from a World’s 50 Best chef
22/5/23 - updated with opening details
Alberto Landgraf, chef patron of two-Michelin-starred Oteque in Rio de Janeiro, ranked 47 on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, is bringing some Brazilian flavours to London with a new restaurant called Bossa. We'd been waiting to hear more about the
... - Test Driving Carlotta - Big Mamma's Marylebone home continues their winning streak
Billed as a more "intimate" Big Mamma restaurant, Carlotta has arrived on Marylebone High Street. We went down to discover exactly what Big Mamma considers intimate...
- Big Mamma to open the more intimate Carlotta restaurant in Marylebone
Updated 18/4/23 with opening date
Not resting on their laurels, having only just opened Jacuzzi in Kensington, Big Mamma are getting ready for their next restaurant, Carlotta in Marylebone.
As originally spotted by an eagle-eyed Hot Dinners reader (thanks Zac), they're
... - Nakanojo are bringing their Peruvian izakaya to Marylebone
21/3/23 - updated with the opening date
Marylebone continues to be one of London's epicentres for restaurant openings, with Nakanojo’s plans to launch a new site there. It’s a little over a year since Nakanojo opened on Chelsea’s King’s Road, becoming the first ‘Peruvian Izakaya’ in the capital, and fans of its Nikkei-inspired dishes will be thrilled that they may not just be stopping at two
... - Test Driving Mayha's The Bar Downstairs - omakase with cocktail pairing
Underneath this Japanese restaurant on Chiltern Street there's a tiny bar serving up an omakase menu of sushi paired with cocktails. We went to try it out.
- Roketsu restaurant to open a new downstairs dining space, Bo-sen, in Marylebone
It feels like it’s only been a minute since Roketsu launched its Japanese kaiseki restaurant in London and now there’s news that it’s opening a downstairs dining option in the same space. Called Bo-sen, it’s a very intimate affair, seating just eight, and will be quite different in approach to Roketsu, which
... - Mayha in Marylebone has a very intimate new Bar Downstairs with cocktails and bites
We're already hearing good things about new omakase restaurant Mayha in Marylebone with The Independent's critic Lucy Thackray describing it thus: "It’s calming. It’s compelling. It’s completely addictive."
Now they're about to open the final stage of their offering - a teeny underground bar space. The Bar Downstairs will have just six seats - so get ready to fight for them. The restaurant's 'head of drinks'
... - There’s a new gastropub at The Landmark London hotel
Marylebone is getting a new gastropub within one of its historic hotels, with the news that The Landmark London is opening the Great Central Pub by Matt Fletcher.
While you’ll find comforting pub classics here and locally sourced beers and bar snacks, there’s no mistaking it’ll be a gastropub in somewhat more plush surroundings than you'd normally see.
The space was previously
... - Angelo Sato takes over the bar food at The Langham's Artesian
He's already a big deal in Soho thanks to Humble Chicken and now Angelo Sato is heading north of Oxford Street to take over the menu at top bar Artesian.
The menu at Artesian plans to be one that Sato says "is inspired by my Japanese heritage, incorporating the likes of shiso, miso, katsu curry and nori." So this should be something of a shift from his chicken-led Soho restaurant. On the menu, you'll
... - St John pick Marylebone for their third London restaurant
Updated 28/9/22 with opening date
It's always a red letter day when we hear that a new St John Restaurant is on the way.
The new opening in Marylebone will make it the third restaurant in town after the original and St John Bread and Wine (not to mention bakeries in Neal's Yard and Bermondsey). It will be an all-day restaurant, apparently kicking off the day by pairing their amazing
... - Mayha omakase restaurant comes to Marylebone via Beirut
New omakase restaurants are quite the trend in London at the moment. Recently, we've seen the openings of Roketsu and Roji and now comes Mayha, an omakase restaurant that first opened in The Middle East.
It's from the Nothing But Love group, which started in Lebanon and who now have a number of restaurants in the Middle East alongside Mayha, including Meat the Fish, Maryool, and The
... - Arome have opened a new bakery just off Oxford Street
They're big in Covent Garden, but now Arome bakery have unveiled a brand new space, just off Oxford Street.
Mere steps from Selfridges is where you'll find the new Arome and, as before their breads, cakes and pastries are inspired by French patisserie techniques, but using flavours from Singapore, Japan and France. So, alongside loaves of their shokupan Japanese milk bread,
... - Cavita's basement cocktail bar Mayahuel is now open in Marylebone.
Two months after she opened her Mexican restaurant, Cavita, chef Adriana Cavita is now ready to unveil her cocktail bar and mezcaleria Mayahuel. Situated underneath the restaurant but with its own entrance on Wigmore Street, Mayahuel looks every bit as enticing as the restaurant
... - The next Granger & Co is going to be in Marylebone
27/6/22 - updated with a new opening date.
The next Granger & Co restaurant is coming to Marylebone High Street, taking the space once held by the much-missed patisserie Maison Sagne (and most recently a Patisserie Valerie).
It's been just over 10 years since Granger & Co became a hit with their first opening in Notting Hill (and in many ways leading the way for London's brunch
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