Knightsbridge

• The Bishop at The Berkeley is the Knightsbridge hotel's new winter pub pop-up

  

  Updated 8/11/22 with images

  If you've been wondering what form the alfresco space at The Berkeley would take on for winter, let us enlighten you. This year they've moved away from Alpine influences and gone instead for their own British gastropub. The Bishop at The Berkeley will be, they say, a place to "pop in for a shandy and snacks".

  On the menu you'll find:

  • Crispy pork
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• Cedric Grolet launches his take on afternoon tea - Goutea

  

  Cedric Grolet hugely impressed us when he opened on these shores with his patisserie and cafe early this year in The Berkeley. Now the renowned French pastry chef is moving onto the most obvious next step - his take on afternoon tea.

  Just kicking off at Cedric

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• Mykonos restaurant Nammos is coming to London

  

  They started in Mykonos, expanded to Cannes, Dubai and more - and now Nammos is coming to London. 

  Opening in Knightsbridge, just across the road from Harrods, they're taking over a Grade II listed building and are calling it an "an elegant and more refined version of its original concept" so it sounds like we might be in for another impressive-looking dining room in London. 

  As

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• Salt Bae's Knightsbridge restaurant made £7m in just three months

  

  He has his fans and his detractors, but Salt Bae is laughing all the way to the bank it seems. According to accounts posted this week and reported by industry news folk Propel, the condiment sprinkling restaurateur made a whopping £7m from the first three months of trading.

  That, if you'd like us to break it down for you, means his Knightsbridge restaurant was working on a turnover of over £500k a week. Even

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• Salt Bae has launched his London restaurant roof terrace

  

  If, like us, you're still following Salt Bae on Insta from the time he opened his London restaurant you'll probably have noticed that the Bae was back in town this past week. And, while he was here, of course, to sprinkle condiments ostentatiously on his customers' dishes, he was also on hand to launch the restaurant's new roof terrace.

  Perched above the restaurant (so really more first floor terrace rather

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• Harrods launch a new permanent Moët & Chandon Champagne Bar

  

  Updated 28/6/22 with opening date and menu info

  Harrods is on a bit of a roll at the moment. There's a new high-end patisserie on the way. And we still have the big launch of ...

• Isibani brings West African dining to Knightsbridge

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  London's growing West African restaurant scene is getting bigger with new restaurant Isibani, heading to Knightsbridge. Set up by Anthony Douglas Chuka and Abdul Malik Abubakar, the duo are describing it as "a love letter to West African cuisine".

  Leading the restaurant's food will be head chef Victor Okunowo, previously at Talking Drum

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• Test Driving The Lanesborough Grill - modern British in a glamorous setting

  

  The arrival of chef Shay Cooper means that this splendid hotel dining room now has a menu that lives up to the opulent surroundings. 

• What's new at Harvey Nichols this spring?

  

  Springtime in London isn't just a time for blossom and new fashion. Over at Harvey Nichols in Knightsbridge there's a whole range of exciting new experiences to enjoy. We went along to take a look.

• Test Driving Cédric Grolet at The Berkeley - eye popping Parisian pastries for Knightsbridge

  

  The esteemed French pastry chef Cedric Grolet hits London with his first patisserie outside France. We went to check his new Knightsbridge digs out.

• Cicchetti is coming to Knightsbridge

  

  San Carlo already have two Cicchettis in London (and a few more restaurants too) and now they're gearing up for a third - this time in Knightsbridge. 

  As with their previous restaurants, it'll all centre around "contemporary Italian dining" with fresh pasta dishes, pizza, fish and meat-focused "carne" plates alongside a selection of fritti dishes. Here's a taste from their current

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• Pastry God Cedric Grolet picks The Berkeley for his first London patisserie

  

  With a reputation that precedes him, world-renowned pastry chef Cedric Grolet is heading to London, opening his first UK patisserie (and the first outside France) at The Berkeley in Knightsbridge. Rumours had been building of a UK base for the chef with all the pastry skills, when he posted a

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• The Aubrey at the Mandarin Oriental is their new izakaya-style restaurant

  

  During the pandemic, one of the restaurants to close was the long-running Bar Boulud, one of two key restaurants at the Mandarin Oriental (the other is Dinner by Heston). 

  But now they've just announced the successor - The Aubrey, which is being billed as "an eccentric Japanese izakaya experience". It's apparently the first Uk restaurant by Maximal Concepts,

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• Trying The Egerton Slurp - a masterclass in martini making at The Egerton House Hotel

  

  As long time readers of Hot Dinners will be aware, there's nothing we like more than an expertly prepared martini. Over the boring days of lockdown, we kept our spirits up with the promise of eventually heading to try the much-vaunted ones at The Egerton House Hotel in Knightsbridge.

  The key driver for us had come from restaurant PR and podcaster ...

• Look for the hot pink NATASHKINOltd cafe popping up at Harvey Nichols

  

  Normally, you'd have to head to Mayfair to enjoy the signature F*ck Off honey cakes from designer Natasha Zinko from her flagship store. But right now, there's another way to try the delights of her NATASHKINOltd - at its pop-up at Harvey Nichols.

  The hot pink booth isn't hard to spot on the Knightsbridge department store's beauty floor. At it you'll be able to try all the NATASHKINOltd dairy and gluten-free treats,

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