Mayfair

• Bacchanalia will be Richard Caring's new Mayfair restaurant on Mount Street

  

  Updated 31/10/22 with the opening date

  More details are being revealed about Richard Caring's next big Mayfair project, Bacchanalia. 

  The Greek and Italian restaurant certainly sounds like it'll be as eye-popping as Caring's other more recent openings, like Sexy Fish and The Ivy Asia. Artist Damien Hirst, who's worked with Caring on Sexy Fish and The Brasserie of Light, is

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• Test Driving Mount St. Restaurant - art, food and celebs mix in this Mayfair hit

  

  Mount St. Restaurant has arrived in Mayfair, attracting a flurry of high-profile guests. We went along to take a look at this restaurant which also happens to double as an informal art gallery. 

• Test Driving Koyn - fire in the kitchen at this Mayfair Japanese restaurant

  

  From the team who brought us Jamavar and Mimi Mei Fair comes this hot new Japanese spot that's already causing a stir. We went down to try this restaurant of two halves.

• Saltie Girl are bringing their Boston lobster rolls and tinned fish to Mayfair

  

  21/10/22 - opening date added

  Here at Hot Dinners, we're always up for a good lobster roll and it sounds as though Mayfair should have a new place serving up just that before the end of the year.

  Saltie Girl is a popular Boston restaurant that's taking over what used to be Prezzo on North Audley Street, next to The Mayfair Chippy.

  For their London opening they've brought in

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• US restaurant Sparrow Italia launches in Mayfair

  

  19/9/22 - updated with images and menus

  If Mayfair wasn’t already buzzing with forthcoming new restaurant openings, here is news of another. This time it’s by way of Los Angeles as well as the southern European coast. Allow us to explain.

  Hospitality group Noble 33 first launched fine-dining Italian restaurant Sparrow Italia in downtown Los Angeles late last year and now they’re

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• Mayfair is about to get its first Armenian restaurant, with the arrival of Lusin

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  If you’ve not travelled to Armenia lately (quite frankly, that’s probably a lot of us) then your palate will soon be able to take a trip there, thanks to Lusin restaurant, which is opening in the heart of Mayfair. Spanning two floors and seating 100 diners, it’s the first London outpost of Lusin, which initially launched in Riyadh in 2011 where it has hosted notable dignitaries,

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• Test Driving The Barley Mow - a Mayfair pub reborn

  

  The latest addition to Mayfair's pub dining scene has arrived with a very clubby dining room and plenty of theatrical flourishes.

• The Audley and Mount St Restaurant see Artfarm opening in Mayfair

  

  Artfarm, the hospitality arm of the modern art gallery group Hauser & Wirth, have already opened the 5-star boutique hotel The Fife Arms in Braemar and Somerset’s Roth Bar & Grill.Now

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• Mayfair scores a new Ben Tish pub and restaurant: The Barley Mow

  

  There’s an impressive new dining destination about to hit Mayfair. The Barley Mow is a pub and restaurant set in a Grade-II-listed building on the corner of Brown Hart Gardens and Duke Street. The building was snapped up by pub group Cubitt House a while back, after closing down during the pandemic. Now you can admire the refurbished surroundings and sink an ale with the likes of haggis Scotch eggs or battered pollock,

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• Casa do Frango bring piri piri to Mayfair

  

  23/9/22 - updated with the opening date

  Next up for popular Portuguese piri-piri restaurant Casa do Frango - they're coming to Mayfair. 

  Taking over what used to be Ice Bar on Heddon Street, the restaurant will be their biggest yet (fitting in 200 people). As well as the main dining room, they'll have a terrace and two private rooms. 

  As for the food, that'll focus

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• Japanese restaurant Koyn is the latest opening from the team behind Jamavar and MiMi Mei Fair

  

  31/8/22 - updated with new opening date

  Samyukta Nair, the restaurateur whose group is behind other Mayfair hits Jamavar, MiMi Mei Fair and Bombay Bustle as well as the upcoming venture with Claude Bosi called Socca, is

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• Blind wine tastings - we try the new Wine Discovery Journeys at The Colony Grill Room

  

  The Beaumont hotel in Mayfair has just introduced a fun element to the wine offering at its restaurant. We took up the challenge. 

• Test Driving Roji - an omakase hideaway in Mayfair

  

  Top Japanese restaurant Chisou has opened a tiny (but beautiful) omakase restaurant called Roji next door. We went down to try out the experience.  

• Australia's Meat & Wine Co is opening in Mayfair

  

  A South African steakhouse from Australia is the latest international restaurant group to set its sights on London - and Mayfair in particular. The Meat & Wine Co is the brainchild of founder Bradley Michael, who took inspiration from his home in South Africa to bring braai-cooked steaks and amazing wines to the folks of Australia. They have opened previously in London - in Westfield to be specific - but

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• The Starman, a David Bowie-inspired bar, opens on Heddon Street

  

  Ground control to David Bowie fans: Heddon Street will already be familiar to you as the location for the Ziggy Stardust album photo cover in 1972, which is commemorated by a blue plaque. Now, just a few doors down, the tribute to the musician continues with The Starman, which opened in early July.

  Taking over the old Strawberry Moon bar/club site, The Starman brings some ch-ch-changes (sorry; we’ll stop this)

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