Mayfair

• Test Driving Scully in St James's Market - an eclectic array of dishes from a very talented chef

  Ex NOPI head chef Ramael Scully is going it alone in this St James's Market spot. We head down for a look. 

• Beck at Brown's will be Michelin-starred chef Heinz Beck's casual Italian restaurant at Brown's Hotel in Mayfair

  He may have a three Michelin-starred restaurant in Rome, but chef Heinz Beck's plans for his new Mayfair restaurant at Brown's Hotel are more casual - with British produce supplying the additional wow factor.

• TITU gyoza bar is now open in Shepherd Market

  Mayfair's Shepherd Market now has a dinky all day Japanese bar, with an ex-Novikov Head Chef in charge, serving up gyoza, soft shell crab salads and green pancakes for breakfast.

• CUT on Park Lane gets into the Oscars party spirit

  

  Over in Los Angeles, chef and restaurateur Wolfgang Puck is the man when it comes to Oscars catering. For more than 20 years he's been running the food at the official post-Academy Awards shindig - the Governor's Ball.

  Now, we're not expecting many Hot Dinners readers to be in possession of an invite to Sunday's ceremony, but there are other ways to get into the spirit of things. If you head to Wolfgang's London restaurant and bar, CUT, on Park Lane they're

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• Sketch's Mourad Mazouz and Pierre Gagnaire celebrate its 15th birthday

  

  To Sketch last night where chef Pierre Gagnaire and restaurant Mourad Mazouz threw a party in the two Michelin-star The Lecture Room & Library to celebrate the Mayfair restaurant's 15th birthday.

  In a speech before dinner, Mourad regaled guests with some of the terrible reviews he'd had in the first few years of opening including The Telegraph's Jan Moir, "diners booking Sketch can expect a fresh kind of hell" to The Guardian's Matthew Fort who said

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• Aidan McGee is the new Head Chef at Corrigan's Mayfair

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  We've been following the career of Irish chef Aidan McGee ever since he first started making waves in the London dining scene back at the Truscott Arms. After a short-ish stint running the kitchen at Fitzrovia pub The George & Dragon, McGee now has a new position, and

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• Test Driving Sabor - an essential Spanish restaurant in Mayfair

  Barrafina alumni Nieves Barragan and José Etura have just unveiled their Spanish restaurant in Mayfair. It's one of the most anticipated restaurants of the year - we take a look. 

• Stem comes to Mayfair from the team behind Neo Bistro and Anglo

  Mark Jarvis is expanding his modern British empire by opening a new Mayfair restaurant - the third in the group

• Nieves Barragan is opening Sabor in Mayfair's Heddon Street

  They've both been driving forces behind Barrafina's success and now Nieves Barragan and José Etura are opening Sabor, their own restaurant.

• Test Driving Indian Accent - a new high-end Indian dining experience hits Mayfair

  Indian Accent, a new high-end Indian dining experience has come to Mayfair with a pretty high pedigree. We went to see how well their UK opening is working out.

• Street trader Popina are opening their first cafe and deli on Duke Street

  Farmers' market stalwart Popina are moving into bricks and mortar with their first cafe and deli just south of Oxford Street

• Jamavar teams up with chefs for special kulchas - plus Rohit Ghai moves on

  

  Big things are afoot at Mayfair’s Michelin-starred restaurant Jamavar. First up, the renowned Rohit Ghai is stepping down, and Surender Mohan is stepping in. Secondly, to mark the change, the Michelin-starred restaurant is welcoming not one but five top international chefs in to get creative with kulcha, a traditional Northern Indian stuffed bread.

  There's no news on where Rohit (who came to Jamavar

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• The best set lunch deal in London? We Test Drive Le Gavroche

  The lunchtime deal at Michel Roux Jr's two Michelin-starred Mayfair restaurant has long been a thing of legend. We went to see if it lived up to expectations

• Only the name is the same - we Test Drive The Square in Mayfair

  With a new look and new chef - we see what the wholly redone Mayfair spot The Square is now like post refurb.

• Dean and Deluca are coming to London - or are they?

  

  Updated 8/12/17 - it's all off!

  On every New York trip that we've ever been on, there's one place that we always make sure we pop into at least once, and that's Dean and Deluca, particularly the one in Soho. It's one of the city's best-known deli/food markets, serving everything from freshly ground coffee, chocolate, juices, with an amazing array of breads, pastries, salads and more. So we were

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