
Restaurateur Martin Kuczmarski is a busy man. Just days after opening Martino's, his follow-up restaurant to The Dover, in Chelsea he's at it again. Now he's gearing up to open another space on Dover Street, just a few doors down from his OG restaurant.
Dover Street Counter sounds like it'll be much more of a playful, casual spot. They're pitching it as "a place to drop in - and likely stay longer than planned."
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Crisp Pizza's arrival in Mayfair at The Marlborough is peak London food scene hype. We went down to see if those pizzas live up to the sky-high expectations.

Every now and then, a new opening manages to happen under our radar, but this latest one really is a proper surprise. It turns out that Automat has quietly returned to Mayfair, opening just around the corner from Berkeley Square.
The original Automat was over on Dover Street, a location that's been turned very successfully into The Dover. That Automat was modelled on a traditional
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9/11/25 - Updated with photos and menu details
One of London's big openings for the autumn is the arrival of Crisp Pizza in Mayfair, where they've taken over The Marlborough Head pub on North Audley Street, renaming it The Marlborough.
For the Mayfair opening, Crisp's and now The Marlborough's owner Carl McCluskey is getting support from the whole team behind The Devonshire:
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French restaurants have been a booming business on London's dining scene in 2025, and the latest to join that trend is Mazarine.
This comes from the team behind Sparrow Italia and is run by ex-LPM chef Thierry Laborde (who was previously head chef of Le Gavroche). It's taking a southern/coastal approach to French cooking, so expect things here to have
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In the heart of Mayfair, you'll find more than a smattering of Michelin-starred restaurants. But it's not all about the 10-course tasting menus. Here's our pick of the very best restaurants in Mayfair.

Recently, we launched our guide to London's best restaurants in galleries and museums. Well, it turns out that one of those restaurants is about to get a large overhaul. The Royal Academy is undergoing a big expansion project, called the "RA Collection Gallery Project" and that
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28/10/25 - updated with more details
Mayfair residents wondering what's happening over at the old Ruya site on Upper Grosvenor Street, next to Corrigan's, should know that they'll have a new restaurant on their doorstep in the new year. It was bought by the Thesleff Group, which is behind Los Mochis in Notting Hill, Sale e Pepe in Knightsbridge and the Juno and Luna omakase
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Set firmly in the Mayfair triangle, new Turkish opening Chargal is hoping to woo Londoners in with three storeys of mezze, refined Turkish dining and a late-night club in the basement. It's taken over the spot vacated by Jeru on Berkeley Street and comes from restaurateur Serdar Demir, who's also behind The Mantl in Knightsbridge.
Here at Chargal, he's hoping that whether you're after a more casual
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Carbone has landed in London with a bang, immediately becoming the hottest restaurant in town. But what's it actually like to dine there? We went in to find out.

23/10/25 - updated with the opening date
When they opened in Soho last year, Supernova were an instant hit. It certainly helped that they carefully cultivated scarcity by only opening at certain days and times to start with. That meant that queues built up quickly and soon one of their burgers became the thing to try.
It was also right at the forefront of the smash
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The Donovan Bar in Brown's Hotel has been host to some pretty interesting residencies in the past few months, including Andrew Wong, Mitch Tonks and Tom Kitchin. But for their next, they're going a little further, bringing over West Coast USA photographer, author and cook Jesse Jenkins. He's probably best known over here for
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A modern Indian restaurant that started life in Dubai (before opening in Mumbai too) is coming to London.
Trèsind describes itself as a "modernist Indian dining experience" so it's a high-end affair. The Dubai menu features dishes like scarlet prawns crudo, with Kashmiri chilli xo, prawn papad, and beluga caviar alongside a menu of premium
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As you may know, what was once London's In and Out Club on Piccadilly, Cambridge House, is getting a huge makeover at the moment and is due to launch as a new hotel sometime in 2026. If you're not quite familiar with that space, it's on Piccadilly with its gated driveway leading to the front door making it one of the most impressive-looking properties on the street.
The original
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The arrival of Michelin-starred chef Lisa Goodwin-Allen has given this Mayfair hotel dining room a shake up. We went to get a taste of her Modern British cooking.