Marylebone

• 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

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• 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'

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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,

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• 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

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• 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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• Test Driving Cavita - Mexican creativity and warmth in Marylebone

  

  Chef Adriana Cavita brings both style and substance to her new solo venture, on Wigmore Street.

• Test Driving Kol Mezcaleria - the Michelin-starred restaurant's hidden bar

   

  Did you know that Michelin-starred Kol in Marylebone also has a very impressive bar in the basement? We headed down to check it out. 

• Cavita in Marylebone will be Mexican chef Adriana Cavita's first solo restaurant

  

  Mexican-born chef Adriana Cavita is taking inspiration from her family and childhood in Mexico with her first solo venture in London, complete with basement mezcaleria

• Chotto Matte doubles up with a new Marylebone restaurant

  

  After success in Soho, restaurateur Kurt Zdesar is getting ready to open a second Chotto Matte in London - this time in Marylebone (taking over from where Fucina used to be). That makes it the fourth Chotto Matte overall (they're in Miami and Toronto as well) although they are opening in San Francisco, Nashville and Los Angeles too so they're definitely on an expansion

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• Daisuke Hayashi is opening Roketsu Kaiseki restaurant in Marylebone

  

  22/11/21 - updated with the opening date

  After previewing the restaurant in a residency at Brown's, chef Daisuke Hayashi is getting ready to open Roketsu in Marylebone.

  Hayashi came to London after training at the Kikunoi Ryotei restaurant in Kyoto and as a protege of seven-Michelin-starred chef Yoshihiro Murata. He has since been

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