Mayfair

• Isabel Juan Santa Cruz's small plates affair in Mayfair
• Test Driving Neo Bistro - modern British cooking on the edge of Oxford Street

  Neo Bistro is trying something very new on the edge of Oxford Street. We head down for a Test Drive to see how they're offering something pretty special to the Mayfair shoppers.

• Bonnie Gull’s Mayfair popup offers seafood for breakfast, lunch and dinner

  The West End has a rather nice new seafood pop-up to try for the summer

• Corrigan's Mayfair to launch Dickie's Bar with Dead Rabbit mixologist

  

  Updated 28/4/17 with new opening date

  Big changes are afoot at Corrigan's, Richard Corrigan's main Mayfair restaurant. Linking in with changes to the main entrance to Corrigan's, they're adding a brand new standalone bar called Dickie's Bar. 

  But that's not all - the bar in question will have cocktails from none other than the Gregory Buda, the mixologist from Dead Rabbit. And if that

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• Celebrity spot Spago comes to London on Park Lane

  

  Save yourself the price of a flight to Los Angeles this summer as the celeb hangout Spago will be popping up in Mayfair, courtesy of American chef Wolfgang Puck.

  Wolfgang will be temporarily transporting dishes from his Michelin-starred Californian restaurant Spago into the kitchen of his London restaurant CUT at 45 Park Lane - the steak restaurant at the Dorchester Collection's Mayfair hotel. He's bringing Spago’s chef de cuisine Tetsu Yahagi with him to serve up

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• Trolley restaurant Magpie is coming from Pidgin's James Ramsden and Sam Herlihy

  The Pidgin duo are rolling up their sleeves to get creative with the theme of dim sum in their first Zone 1 restaurant. There’ll be trays of cocktails on arrival, trolleys of dim sum at your table, and imaginative ingredients like fennel pollen, gjetost and nukazuke pickles...

• Neo-Bistro comes to Mayfair from Anglo and Harwood Arms chefs

  Anglo's Mark Jarvis and The Harwood Arms' Alex Harper team up for this new relaxed bistro-style restaurant in Mayfair,

• The Game Bird at The Stafford Lots of game and James Durrant.
• Isabel opens in Mayfair from Casa Cruz's Juan Santa Cruz

  

  What: Isabel

  In a nutshell: High-end glamour in Mayfair.

  Summing it all up: The man behind Casa Cruz in Notting Hill, Juan Santa Cruz, has come into Mayfair with this small plates affair that's VERY glam.

• Comptoir Cafe and Wine comes to Mayfair from Xavier Rousset

  

  What: Comptoir Cafe and Wine

  In a nutshell: Xavier Rousset follows up Blandford Comptoir with this Mayfair wine bar.

  Summing it all up: Coming from the same person behind Blandford Comptoir, this pairs and all day cafe with a huge downstairs wine shop (all of which you can drink on the premises). 

• Test Driving Barbecoa Piccadilly - Jamie Oliver's high-end BBQ steakhouse

  We take a look at the latest restaurant from Jamie Oliver, which sees him opening a second Barbecoa, on Piccadilly. 

• Test Driving Jamavar - high-end Indian cuisine in Mayfair

  London's run of top new Indian restaurants continues with Mayfair's Jamavar. We head down to try it out. 

• Jamavar High-end Indian on Mount Street
• Ralph’s Coffee & Bar opens at London's Polo Ralph Lauren

  

  Popping over the pond, Ralph Lauren has just opened his first eatery in London. Ralph's Coffee & Bar takes the Manhattan spots of The Polo Bar and Ralph's coffee and combines them for London. The new space can be found at the Polo Ralph Lauren store on Regent Street.

  So what can you expect? Well, obviously it's rather beautiful in a clubby sort of way with saddle leather banquettes, a brass-topped bar, wooden panelling and green billiard cloth on the walls. There's

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• Parisian brasserie Ferdi comes to London, opening in Mayfair's Shepherd Market

  

  Good news for London fashionistas - Paris restaurant Ferdi, long known as a haunt for designers and models to hang out in, is coming to town. And they're almost ready to open the London branch of their restaurant in Shepherd Market.

  If you don't know about the original (and we have to confess, we hadn't heard of it before a reader asked us about it) Ferdi first opened in Paris in 2004. It quickly became a favourite place for fashionable folk to hang out. More

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