Mayfair

• Noble Rot pick Mayfair's Shepherd Market for their next restaurant

  

  If you haven't been into Mayfair's Shepherd Market for a while, they're about to get a new opening there that's going to bring the area into focus for foodies.

  Noble Rot owners Dan and Mark have announced that they would be opening their third London restaurant there. They've taken over the old Le Boudin Blanc space.

  "This, our third place, is certainly not

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• Cake & Flowers will be the new patisserie and flower shop at The Dorchester

  

  Updated 22/3/23 with opening date and images

  Are you truly a five star hotel in London if you don't have your own in-house patisserie or plans for one? We've had Nicolas Rouzaud's The Connaught Patisserie at The Connaught, Cedric Grolet at The Berkeley and now The Dorchester is getting in on the act.

  It's all part of a major refurbishment that the hotel's undertaking. They've

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• Wolfgang Puck's Spago is popping up in London

  

  If there's one restaurant that seems synonymous with Hollywood (to us in the UK at least) it's Wolfgang Puck's Spago (the chef also caters the main Oscars afterparty). If you've ever fancied eating like the LA elite, now you don't even have to cross the Atlantic as Puck is bringing Spago to the UK for four days only. 

  Taking over his UK restaurant, Cut at 45 Park Lane will be a special Spago pop-up,

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• Celeb hotspot Sheesh is coming to Mayfair

  

  They're big in Chigwell and pretty soon they're going to be just as big in London as Sheesh has taken on a pretty prime piece of real estate on the corner of One Dover Street and Piccadilly, right opposite The Wolseley.

• Test Driving Socca - a love letter to the French Riviera in Mayfair

  

  Bosi's new Mayfair bistro aims to transport Londoners to the south of France. We left our passports at home and went to try it out.

• Test Driving Humo - culinary fireworks in Mayfair

  

  From the restaurant group that brought us Endo and Sumi comes this thrilling new cooking over fire restaurant. We pulled up a seat at the counter.

• Claude Bosi to open Socca in Mayfair, teaming up with Jamavar restaurateur

  

  26/1/22 - updated with the opening date

  He may be edging closer to that third Michelin star at his eponymous restaurant in South Kensington, but Claude Bosi is also about to try something new in Mayfair. He's teamed up with Samyukta Nair, the restaurateur behind Jamavar, for new bistro Socca. 

  The restaurant will have a French/Mediterranean-influenced menu, with a

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• The Dorchester unveils its James Bond-influenced Vesper Bar and brand new Artist's Bar

  

  23/1/22 - updated with photos of the new bar

  If you've been to The Dorchester recently, then you'll have noticed that their regular ground-floor bar has been under wraps (and has even popped up to the roof). It's all part of a big revamp to the ground floor.

  Now

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• Caviar Kaspia returns to London with a club in Mayfair

  

  This one took its time. We originally wrote about Caviar Kaspia returning to London all the way back in 2018 - but now it's finally (and quietly) opened.

  Back at the turn of the millennium, Caviar Kaspia was doing pretty good business in London. Fay Maschler (at least we think it's her - the ...

• Humo sees the team behind Endo and Sumi opening a wood fired restaurant in Mayfair

  

  4/1/22 - updated with the opening date

  When your other restaurants are the Michelin-starred Endo at the Rotunda and popular sushi spot Sumi in Notting Hill, it's clear that people are going to be interested in your next opening. So the news that the Creative Restaurant Group are about to open a new place in Mayfair had us doing a little digging.

  HUMO is billed as a wood fire concept that's opening in

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• Mayfair restaurant Mnky Hse set ablaze in Christmas decorations fire

  

  Festive celebrations took a bad turn at Mayfair restaurant Mnky Hse on Friday night when a fire broke out forcing hundreds of customers and restaurant workers to flee the premises.

  In dramatic footage put up on social media you can see the restaurant's Christmas decorations fully ablaze as people dash to escape.

  Mnky Hse London on

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• MasterChef The Professionals winner Alex Webb turns his Park Lane pop up permanent

  

  He won MasterChef the Professionals in 2020 and has been popping up in one form or another at Number One Park Lane for the past eight months, taking over first the terrace and then popping up with a restaurant inside the hotel. Now Alex Webb (whose CV includes Hélène Darroze, Dinner and Roux at Parliament Square) is making his Mayfair pop up permanent.

  Since starting at

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• Test Driving Saltie Girl - the Boston seafood import hits Mayfair

  

  All the way from Boston, this US import is hoping to make itself an indispensable seafood spot for anyone shopping on Oxford Street. 

• Mister Nice restaurant to open in Mayfair

  

  23/11/22 - updated with lots more info

  News previously reached us of a new restaurant coming to Mayfair that seems to be going after the Cipriani and LPM crowd, called Mister Nice. Things were a little quiet after the first announcement - but now the restaurant is gearing up for an opening. 

  It'll be taking over the space left by Kallos Gallery on Davies Street and comes from French

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• The Maison Francois Croute-off is back, with some big names taking part

  

  We're very big fans of pate en croute here at Hot Dinners, so news of the return of Maison Francois' Croute Off has cheered us immensely. Just as you'd expect, it has some of London's best restaurants getting together to compete for the best pate en croute of 2022. 

  There's a pretty impressive list of names involved too, many already producing some pretty fine croutes at their own restaurants They

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